User Manual

IMPORT AND EXPORT
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■ QuickTime movies
■ AV I m o v i e s
■ Audio CD files
■ MuLaw files
You can import any of the file formats above by
dragging the file into Digital Performer and
dropping it into the Soundbites window or — in
most cases — any window that holds audio.
If you drag and drop an audio file into Digital
Performer’s Soundbites window, all of the regions
in the audio file are imported.
Importing REX files
Recycle 1.0 and 2.0 REX files can be imported into
Digital Performer, either by dragging and dropping
them from the computer desktop into a mono or
stereo audio track, or by using the Import Audio
command (File menu). Recycle 1.0 RCY files can
also be imported.
Importing a REX file into a track
When you drag and drop a REX file into a track, be
sure that the track format (mono or stereo)
matches the REX loop. As shown in Figure 2-5, the
individual audio slices in the REX loop are placed
in the track at the appropriate measure, beat and
tick location to preserve the feel of the loop at the
current tempo of the sequence. After importing,
each slice of the REX loop is treated as in individual
soundbite, both in the track and in the Soundbites
window.
If you change the tempo, the REX slices will
“breath” with the tempo, staying precisely in time
with the conductor track. When they are first
imported, REX slice soundbites are given the Don’t
time scale attribute in the Soundbites window, so
each individual slice won’t be automatically time-
stretched when the tempo is changed. However,
you can easily change this attribute to Time Scale in
the Soundbites window, as explained below.
Figure 2-5: Importing a REX file into a track. Each
slice is placed as a separate soundbite to
conform to the sequence’s meter and tempo.