Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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5.Click OK.
Now, the whole Montage is rendered to an CD image file, with a corresponding cue sheet. 
A new Audio Montage is created, which will play back as the original Montage and have all 
its features (but refer to the ready-processed CD image file instead). 
Now you can proceed with burning the CD as described in the next chapter.
• It is also possible to create a Basic Audio CD from the Render dialog.
This will also separate the processing and the CD burning and...

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Generating the Audio CD report
An Audio CD report should be generated when an Audio Montage is fully 
prepared and ready for CD burning (or after having already done so). Pro-
ceed as follows to generate a preview of the Audio CD report template:
1.Open the Audio Montage you wish to create a report for.
2.Click the CD tab and select “Generate/Print Audio CD report” from the 
Functions menu.
A dialog opens.
At this point, you can select one of three Audio CD report...

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Editing the Audio CD report
Editing user variables
To enter personal data for the user editable variables, or to add new vari-
ables, you use the “Edit text variables” dialog, located on the CD view : 
Functions menu, see “Defining user variables” on page 614.
Editing CD Text
CD Text is included on the actual CD, and can be displayed by some CD 
players. It can also be included in the Audio CD report, allowing you to 
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•Each element entry consists of a path to a RTF file. 
One exception is the Logo, which should point to the location of an image file. The image 
will be embedded in the final RTF file.
•To use another RTF file for an element, click the folder icon and browse to 
the new RTF file.
You could for example have created different versions of the various RTF files, or a client 
could bring his own RTF files, etc.
•To remove an element from the Audio CD report, delete the path...

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In this example, we’ve opened the file “Header1.rtf”.
As you can see, this is the personal information that was shown under the 
logo in the preview CD report template. The entries are written exactly as 
in the “Edit Variables” dialog; a title followed by a variable name enclosed 
with “%” characters.
• All text in the RTF documents apart from the code inside the percentage 
marks will be shown in the report.
This lets you change headings, orders and similar; you may...

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Using DVD-A picture and text tracks
DVD-A picture and text tracks can be added to Montages that are to be 
burned to DVD.
These track types have no functionality in WaveLab itself, other than offer-
ing the ability to place text and pictures along the time line which will be 
shown together with the audio when the final DVD-A is played back in a 
compatible player connected to a video display.
•DVD-Audio text and picture tracks are created from the track pop-up 
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Adding real time text to a DVD-A text track
1.Set the cursor at the position where you want the real time text to appear.
2.Right-click in an empty area on a text track and select “Insert text”.
This opens the Real time text dialog.
In this dialog you type in a text to be displayed at that time position. You can 
specify a time position for the text relative to the start of the track, and the 
duration the text is to be shown. Click the question mark icon in the dialog...

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Exporting AES-31 files
Proceed as follows to export an Audio Montage as an AES31 file:
1.Select “Export as AES-31 file…” from the Save Special submenu on the 
File menu.
2.Select a name and location for the new file and click Save.
At this point, the AES-31 Export options dialog appears. This dialog lets you specify a num-
ber of options for the AES-31 file to be exported. Click the question mark icon in the dialog 
for details.
3.When you’ve made the desired settings...

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For the various CD track markers, for example, the codes to use are the 
following:
• You must use Nuendo 2.0 or later if you want to create specially named 
markers that will be interpreted as  WaveLab markers.
• In Nuendo, a marker track has to be created for the specially named markers.
• When importing AES-31 projects containing specially named markers, the 
marker codes (e.g. [t-end]) will not be displayed in  WaveLab.
XML Export/Import of Audio Montages
This is...

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