Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Note that at the end of the DVD burning process it can take up to 15 minutes 
to close the DVD. Please be patient.
Closing method Here you can select a closing method. If you are adding the data por-
tion to a CD-Extra CD, you must select “Close CD” (see “CD-Extra 
support” on page 575).
Simulation Here you define if and how a simulation should be performed before the 
actual writing process. Simulating the writing process lets you find out 
whether the writing...

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Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 

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Importing audio CD tracks into WaveLab
WaveLab provides the ability to read audio tracks from regular CDs. This 
makes a digital copy of the audio from the CD directly into an 
audio file 
on your hard disk.
Although WaveLab supports a large number of CD drives, there are some 
restrictions you should be aware of:
• There are a number of different, not very well standardized protocols for re-
trieving audio from a CD-ROM/CD-R drive.
WaveLab tries to support...

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•By default, the tracks will be named “Track XX”, where XX is a number 
starting at 01. You can adjust the auto numbering scheme by right-click-
ing in the list and selecting an option from the pop-up menu that appears.
This pop-up menu also contains some additional functions for saving individual tracks di-
rectly as files, appending a track to the current Montage, etc.
The “Import Audio CD Tracks” dialog
6.Click on the Folder button at the bottom of the...

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8.If required, you can select one file and click Play.
This will play the beginning of the track so that you can check it out.
• If you notice that playback starts too late into the track – i.e. a small part of 
the beginning of the track is “cut out”, you can specify a pre-roll value to en-
sure that the entire beginning of the track is read.
This is done by selecting the option “Define reading of audio before and after CD track…” 
on the Options menu, and...

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File format – Converting CD track(s) to other formats
The extracted audio files are saved in WAV (Wave) format by default. You 
can, however, directly save files in other audio formats by clicking the but-
ton at the bottom of the dialog to open the Audio File Format dialog, and 
select the desired file format from the Type menu.
Among the formats available are the following compressed audio formats: 
MP3, MP2, WMA and Ogg Vorbis.
When any of these formats...

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Convert to Basic Audio CD
The “Convert to Basic Audio CD” function is similar to Convert to Mon-
tage (Standard mode), but a Basic Audio CD is created instead.
Convert to CD-Image / cue-sheet
This will convert all tracks, all index (and sub-index) markers and pauses 
exactly, as well as CD-Text, ISRC and UPC codes. A CD-Ima
ge file 
with a corresponding cue sheet is created. 
Notes
• Note that importing audio CD tracks is technically more complicated than...

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Importing DVD-Audio tracks into WaveLab
WaveLab provides the ability to read audio tracks from DVD-A discs. This 
creates a digital copy of the audio from the DVD-A directly into an audio 
file on your hard disk.
The main uses for this function are:
•Recovering audio tracks from DVD-A discs you have generated and burnt 
onto DVD via WaveLab’s DVD-Audio project window (see “Creating and 
opening a DVD-Audio project” on page 552).
This function makes it...

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4.Use the Destination folder menu below to select a destination folder for 
the file(s) to be imported. You can either type in the folder name and path 
directly or click the folder button to browse for a folder.
The files will be saved with the name that appears in the visual menu. Note that you can re-
name a file later – after clicking “Save” (see below).
5.Next, click the Analyse button.
The DVD-A (on DVD or hard disk) is now analysed and the dialog is...