Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Preparing the Audio Montage for CD/DVD-
Audio burning
See “Background information” on page 366 for a general description of the 
DVD-Audio format.
The descriptions in this section cover preparations for both CD and DVD-
Audio burning, as the basic procedures are almost identical. The term 
CD/DVD used there thus applies to options in both the CD and DVD-A 
view unless otherwise stated.
However, there are some important differences:
•A CD can be burned directly from...

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4.Select “CD/DVD Wizard…” from the Functions menu (or click the “magic 
wand” icon).
The CD/DVD Wizard dialog appears. This contains a number of settings that help you auto-
mate the CD/DVD creation. 
5.Activate the option “Generate CD/DVD Track Markers” and activate the 
desired sub-options.
These options are:
•“Ensure minimum required size for CD tracks” is activated by default.
If a clip is shorter than 4 seconds, the CD end markers are moved to the right so as to...

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6.If you like, activate the option “Adjust pause before tracks”.
This automatically adjusts the pause before each track, either to a fixed value (as specified 
in the Set time value box) or to the number of whole seconds closest to each current pause 
in the Montage. 
If you want to adjust the pauses between tracks but don’t want the start time of the first 
track in the Montage to change, be sure to activate “Don’t change first pause”. If you do, the 
original position...

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13.If the Check gave a warning message, make manual adjustments and re-
peat the Check procedure until the list is OK.
You may get warning messages for several reasons, including:
• You have CD tracks that are shorter than 4 seconds, or DVD tracks shorter than 
1 second.
• The pause before the first CD track is shorter than 2 seconds.
• There are clips (or sections of clips) outside the CD or DVD tracks. 
• There are CD or DVD track start or end markers within clips (if...

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Proceed as follows:
1.Place the CD/DVD track end marker of the first track at the position 
where the music ends, but before the applause section.
2.If necessary, place the CD/DVD track start marker of the following track at 
the position where the music starts.
3.Activate the “Audio in pauses” mode from the CD/DVD-A view : Options 
menu, or by clicking the corresponding icon on the icon bar.
Placing a clip before track 1 
To create a “hidden” CD/DVD track before track...

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Editing the CD/DVD-A view list 
Once you have prepared a CD track list as described previously, you can 
go ahead and write the CD. For DVD-Audio you first need to make some 
settings in the DVD-Audio options dialog (see “The DVD-Audio options 
dialog” on page 537) before adding the Montage to a DVD-Audio project 
(see “Creating and opening a DVD-Audio project” on page 552). 
However, there are some additional settings you can adjust in the CD/
DVD-A view track list:
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Setting a new ATS will mute the audio in the DVD-A player for up to two 
seconds. Therefore you should never set a new ATS at a gapless track tran-
sition or for Audio in Pause transitions!
About the “DM” column in the D VD-A view list
“DM” stands for Down Mixing. If you tick this column for a track using a sur-
round format, a “smart” stereo down mix will automatically be created ac-
cording to the settings made in the DVD-Audio options dialog, see below.
The DVD-Audio...

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An alternative solution is to use Stereo Down Mixing tables. This means that 
you can specify how each surround channel should be represented in the 
stereo mix by supplying gain coefficients. When the DVD-Audio is played 
back on stereo equipment, the surround channels are combined to stereo – 
but they are “mixed” according to the coefficients you have specified. Look 
at this example:
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•You can also use the Preset pop-up menu to store and recall Down Mix-
ing table presets.
•You can check the results of your Down Mixing settings by selecting the 
desired table in the “DM” column in the DVD-A view (see “About the “DM” 
column in the DVD-A view list” on page 537), activating the Stereo button 
in the Master Section (see “The Stereo button” on page 525) and playing 
back.
Checking transitions between tracks 
On the CD/DVD-A view : Functions menu there is...

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Render selected CD/DVD track
It is possible to render a selected CD/DVD track as an audio file. This fea-
ture is reserved for stereo audio montages. The rendered file can replace 
the existing clips that make the CD/DVD track, or can be placed on a free 
track or on a new track. 
For details, click the question mark icon in this dialog.
About the two CD write methods
The final phase of CD creation can be done in two ways:
• By burning directly from the CD view in the...