Instruction Manual

654 Mixing
Preparing Audio for Distribution
If your audio hardware is configured for stereo playback, Wave files are
created in stereo; if your audio hardware is configured for monophonic
playback, the Wave file is created in mono.
See New Export Formats.
To Export Audio to Wave File Format
1. Set all volume, pan, effects, and automation settings just as you want
them.
2. If you only want to mix down parts of tracks, select those clips now. If
you don’t select anything, everything’s selected.
3. If you are using effects on the tracks and want to mix the effects down
at this time, select the whole length of the longest track or clip plus
extra time for the reverb or effects “tail.”
4. Choose File-Export-Audio to open the Export Audio dialog box.
5. Select a destination folder using the Look In field.
6. Enter a file name.
7. Choose one of the following from the Files of type dropdown list:
• Wave—choose this if you want to export a standard wave file, or if
you’re exporting a surround project in wave format.
• Broadcast Wave (time-stamped)—choose this if you want to create
a Broadcast Wave file (see description below).
Core Audio Format Core Audio Format is a new 64-bit audio format
supported natively in Mac OS X, and is also used
by QuickTime 7. Audio in Core Audio Format files
can be uncompressed PCM or compressed
(such as AAC).
The file extension is .CAF.
RAW Rarely used, a RAW file can contain audio in any
codec but is usually used with PCM audio data.
OMF The Open Media Format, created by AVID
Technology, is designed to port a project to other
applications or platforms. OMF files preserve tracks,
clip positions, slip edits and some other project
attributes depending on which application is writing or
reading the OMF file.
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