User Guide

CHAPTER 4
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Managing Layers
To set display options for the Audio palette:
1 In the Audio palette, click the triangle in the upper-right corner and choose Options.
2 In the Audio Options dialog box, select one of the following:
• Decibels to display audio levels as decibels.
• Percentage to display audio levels as a percentage, where 100% equals 0 dB.
3 From the Slider Minimum menu, select the minimum decibel level you want to display
in the Audio palette, and then click OK.
To set preferences for audio preview:
1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Previews.
2 In the Audio Preview section, type a duration for the audio preview. An audio preview
begins at the current-time marker and continues for the duration you specify here. This
option is useful when you are checking short passages of a composition, although you can
interrupt an audio preview at any time.
3 Choose an audio sample rate from the first menu.
4 Choose an audio sample size from the second menu.
5 Choose Stereo or Mono playback from the third menu.
6 Click OK.
CD-quality sound is 44.1 KHz, 16-bit stereo. However, to reduce the time and memory
required to preview, you may want to choose a lower bit depth and sample rate.
To preview audio:
1 In the Composition window or Timeline window, move the current-time marker to the
time where you want the preview to begin.
2 Choose Composition > Preview > Audio Preview (Here Forward), or press the period
key (.) on the numeric keypad.
To preview audio and rendered images:
1 If the Time Controls palette is not open, choose Window > Time Controls. Click the
double arrow ( ) on the Time Controls tab, as needed, until you see the RAM Preview
Options, and then do one of the following:
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