Steinberg WaveLab Essential 6 Operation Manual

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Data CD/DVD Projects
Destination window settings
View settings
Use the Destination menu to adjust how files and folders 
are displayed in the destination window, just like in the 
source window.
Getting size information
At the bottom of the Data CD/DVD window, a ruler shows 
you the current and the maximum size of the project. On 
the CD/DVD menu you can set the ruler to display either a 
CD scale or a DVD scale, as well as define the actual 
available space of the destination media you intend to use...

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Creating a Mixed Mode CD
To create a Mixed Mode CD (i.e. a CD with both audio 
and data), proceed as follows:
1.Select the “root” of the CD in the left destination win-
dow pane.
2.Select “Add Audio Track Folder” from the Destination 
window Edit menu.
An Audio Track Folder item appears in the destination window. This can-
not be moved or removed.
3.Drag any audio files you want included as audio tracks 
from the source window to the audio track folder.
The Write dialog for the...

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Importing audio CD tracks 

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Importing audio CD tracks
Importing audio CD tracks into 
WaveLab Essential
WaveLab Essential 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 Essential supports a large number of 
CD drives, there are some restrictions you should be 
aware of:
ÖThere are a number of different, not very well stan-
dardized protocols for retrieving audio from a CD-ROM/
CD-R drive.
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Importing audio CD tracks
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.
ÖIf 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 ensure 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 entering the...

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Importing audio CD tracks
Notes
 Note that importing audio CD tracks is technically more com-
plicated than reading files from a CD-ROM or hard disk, be-
cause audio sectors can be hard to detect. Some CDs which 
do not conform completely to the CD standard may cause 
problems.
 There are several other functions on the Options pop-up 
menu.
 If you import a CD track with Emphasis, and later want to use 
this on a CD of your own, remember to activate Emphasis for 
that track in the CD view of the...

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Creating labels 

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Creating labels
Introduction
The Label Editor allows you to design and print custom la-
bels for your CD and DVD projects. You can design sepa-
rate layouts for front, inside, back and disk labels. Both 
text information and a wide 
range of image file formats can 
be imported and edited in various ways.
About variables and templates
Every Data CD/DVD Project, Audio CD Montage or Im-
port Audio CD Tracks session has a default set of “vari-
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Creating labels
The Label Editor window displays a frame with the cur-
rently selected label (front, back or disk) layout. Layouts 
are made up of editable objects – images, text boxes, lines 
or circles. You can also select either an image or color as 
background for the layout as a whole.
Basic object handling in the Label Editor
The Label Editor tools
Tools can be selected in three ways:
 From the Tools menu
 By clicking the corresponding icon on the toolbar
 By right-clicking in the background...

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Resizing objects
If you click on a handle of a selected object, the pointer 
changes to a double arrow, indicating that you can resize 
the object by dragging. Images or circle objects will be 
scaled, whereas dragging the handles of text box objects 
will resize the size of the box, not the text itself.
ÖYou can also right-click an object and select “Edit Po-
sition and Size…” from the speed menu.
A dialog appears, allowing you to edit size (width and height) numerically, 
in cm/mm....