Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Proceed as follows:
1.Select “Full cloning (recreate audio files)…”, either from the Edit view : 
Special menu or from the Save special submenu on the File menu.
A dialog appears.
2.Specify a path and file name for the Audio Montage clone.
If you specify a folder that doesn’t exist, it will automatically be created. The cloned audio 
file(s) will be stored in the same folder as the Audio Montage clone.
3.Select one of the “How to recreate audio files” options:
Option...

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4.If you later want to be able to lengthen the clips in the cloned Montage, 
you need to specify a clip margins value greater than zero.
This feature allows you to add a specified number of seconds before and after the begin-
ning and end of the clip range in the created audio files. 
This is only relevant if you have selected any other option than the first one 
(“Recreate exact audio files”).
5.If you want the clips in the cloned Montage to have the names of their...

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Backing up Montages
The Audio Montage has a special backup mechanism, which allows you 
to maintain previous versions of saved Montages, and have the Audio 
Montage automatically saved. It works in the following way:
• Each time you save the Audio Montage, the previously saved version is copied to 
the subfolder “Backup.mon” (in the same folder as the Audio Montage file).
This backup folder is automatically created by WaveLab. The backup files are named 
“Montage_#X”,...

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4.Activate the Auto save checkbox if you want WaveLab to automatically 
save the Montage.
Use the value field to the right to specify how often the automatic save should be done (ev-
ery 5 to every 120 minutes).
5.Click OK to close the dialog.
Opening the previous version
The “Open previous version” function on the History view : Backup menu 
works as follows:
• If there are no unsaved changes in the Audio Montage, the most recent backup 
file is opened in a new...

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Playing back a video clip 
Video clips are displayed as clips on the video track, with thumbnails rep-
resenting the frames in the film. If you start playback, the video is played 
back in the Track view for the video track.
Viewing video clips in the Video view
You can also view the film in the upper Montage pane if you select the 
Video view. Here you can set a number of view options:
•To view the video in full screen mode, press [Shift]+[A]. 
Use this same command to...

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The Video view Options menu
There are two items on the Video view : Options menu:
•Play video in track (at cursor).
If this is ticked, the video frames will play back in the Track view at the cursor position. If this 
is off, the frames will be displayed as non-animated thumbnail images.
•No video playback in track when this tab is open.
If both options are ticked, the frames will be displayed as non-animated thumbnail images 
when the Video view is selected, but...

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The ASIO Audio Connections dialog
You also need to specify how WaveLab’s 8 internal input/output channels 
are connected to your audio card. This is done in the ASIO Audio connec-
tions dialog, which is opened by clicking the “Connections” button in the 
Preferences–Audio device tab.
•The 7 Surround channels are the available surround speaker channels.
Although you cannot use more than 6 surround channels in WaveLab, there are surround 
configurations available that...

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Selecting a channel configuration
You can configure the number of channels to use for each Montage. All 
multichannel (i.e. more than two channels) configurations except 8 chan-
nel mode are surround formats, and are internally assigned to surround 
channels in WaveLab as described previously.
The are two operational modes you can use for multichannel work in 
WaveLab:
•Using a surround configuration.
To access the surround configurations, you must first select...

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Which configuration you should select depends on a number of factors:
•The number of outputs available on your audio card.
If you only have 4 outputs on your card, you can only use surround formats with 4 or less 
channels.
•Whether or not you intend to mix the Montage to a surround format.
If not, select normal stereo operation or 8 channel mode which is non-surround oriented, 
see “About the 8 channel mode” on page 520.
•The intended use of the final surround mix.
For...

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About the “Disable redundant modes” menu option
This is activated by default. On the Edit view : Mode menu you have proba-
bly noticed that some of the surround configurations are greyed out. You 
may also have noticed that in all surround configurations there is a slash “/” 
between some of the channels. If you look closer you can see that the 
greyed out channel configurations actually contain the same surround 
channel assignment as other (available) configurations,...