Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Copy/Paste
These buttons let you apply the same settings quickly from one track 
menu to another. Just make all the desired settings for one track menu 
and click “Copy”. Then select another track menu and click “Paste”. All 
the settings in the first menu will then be applied to the second.
Add menu for groups
If this is activated, there will be group menus available for editing. If not, 
there will be only track menus.
Hide last group
This is available only if you...

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Name/index/time menu
This drop-down menu is only available when you have selected Group 
names or Track names from the Elements menu. It lets you decide whether 
the groups and tracks should be displayed by name only, or using different 
combinations of name, index (group/track number) and time (group/track 
length).
Format
This button is only available when you have selected to display group 
names and track names by a combination of name, index and time. Click-
ing...

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Layout menu
The items on this menu allow you to specify the desired basic layout of the 
visual menu. For album title, group names and navigation buttons, you can 
choose the alignment for the text – left side, centered or right side. For 
track names, you can select the number of columns and their alignment.
Vertical spacing
This allows you to adjust the vertical spacing between the selected type 
of elements. For a track list, this is the space between each track...

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Color settings (Normal, Selection, Action)
All elements except album titles and group names in a visual menu can 
have three states: Normal (unselected), selected (touched by the cursor) 
and active (when the command is carried out – e.g. starting playback of a 
selected track). The three colored squares allow you to select which color 
the selected element should have in each of these states. Click the col-
ored squares and select a color from the standard color...

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Show safety area
If you activate this option, an outline of the safety area will be visible. The 
safety area is the part of the display area that is guaranteed to be visible 
when the menu is displayed on a regular TV set. Visual menus, pictures, 
etc. on DVD-A are usually set up on a computer monitor, and the display 
area, resolution and aspect ratio of computer monitors are different from 
those of TV sets.
The safety area therefore consists of about 80% of the...

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Background picture/color
The radio buttons “Picture” and “Color” directly below the display let you 
decide whether to use a picture as background for the menu, or whether 
the menu should be filled with a color of your choice.
•If you select “Picture” you get access to the folder button to the right. Use 
this to browse for the picture you want to use as background.
WaveLab supports the picture formats jpg/jpeg and bmp.
• Note that the picture should preferably match...

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When you first open this dialog it contains a main folder with a number of 
subfolders inside it. These items are all automatically generated and have 
to be edited outside of this dialog. Folders and subfolders are opened by 
double-clicking them. 
On the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog you will find a multitude of 
text options divided into various categories. You use the dialog in the fol-
lowing way:
1.First select an appropriate text option heading from the...

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Final preparations
When you have made all necessary preparations in the DVD-Audio 
project it is time to move on to the (next to) final process! 
Using the Check function
Before rendering the DVD-Audio project, you should use the Check func-
tion. This will automatically check all Montages in the project and display 
a detailed warning if the project does not comply with the DVD-Audio 
standard.
•Select “Check all” from the Functions menu or click the “glasses” icon....

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Rendering the DVD-Audio project
Before burning the DVD you have to render all the contents of the DVD-
Audio project to an AUDIO_TS folder. This folder is automatically added 
to a Data CD/DVD project, from where you can start the actual burning 
process. 
1.Select “Create…” from the Functions menu or click the red disc icon.
The DVD-Audio creation dialog appears.
In this dialog you can set the following options:
2.Click OK to render the DVD-Audio project.
Option...

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The contents of the DVD-Audio project are now rendered according to 
your settings. When the rendering process is finished, a Data DVD/CD 
project is automatically opened, containing a AUDIO_TS folder and an 
(empty) VIDEO_TS folder.
From here you can do one of the following:
• Burn the DVD without adding any additional data or a VIDEO_TS folder.
• Add data and/or a VIDEO_TS folder (authored in another application).
This is described in the section “Data CD/DVD...