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a particular location in the VIP tracks. This allows you to
position audio events and material at exact frame positions.
If you zoom into the window, the video track is also
enlarged, showing the video frames at a lower zoom level
as well. If you select to display the window at its lowest
zoom level, each frame is shown in the video track.
FX: The FX option allows the adjusting of small delays that
can occur on slower computer systems for example. The
linking of media files with VIP or Wave projects is based
on two playback processes, one for the MAGIX audio studio
window and one for the media file window. No synchro-
nizing of material takes place during the playback process.
This means that on computers that have timing problems
due to insufficient system resources or speed the digital
audio tracks and the media file may run “out of sync”. With
the FX option you can specify a factor that is used to do
internal sample rate conversion. How does that work?
Since we can not influence the playback speed of the media
file, we need to adjust the playback speed of the digital audio
tracks. Imagine that a normal playback speed is represented
with a factor of 100. If the digital tracks play ahead of the
media file, the playback needs to be slowed down. This
would be accomplished by multiplying the regular playback
speed of 100 with a FX factor just a little below 1, for example
0.998. This would result in a playback speed of 99.8, which
is a little bit slower than the regular speed. This way we
would align the digital tracks with the media file.
On the other hand, if the digital audio tracks lag behind the
media file playback, a factor higher and 1 would need to the
entered. A value of 1.002 would be an example.
Rule of thumb for this factor is to use small value in-
crements. The values should stay around 1. You will need
to experiment with this setting, since there is no hard rule
about the system performance of an individual computer
system.
If you do not have any problems with the digital audio tracks
and the media file playback staying in sync, you should not
enter any values in this field!
Remove Link: This button will unlink the media file from
the MAGIX audio studio window. This effectively stops all
association with the media file. If you do not need any furt-
her referenced to the media file, you may use this option.
Preview: The Test button allows testing of the current link.
By clicking the button the playback of the media file should
commence. If no playback is visible in a MAGIX audio stu-