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CHP. 7 USING MARKERS, REGIONS, AND THE PLAYLIST/CUTLIST
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Editing regions in the Regions List
You can also edit regions by double-clicking the region name in the Regions List. For more information, see
Using the Regions List on page 104. This displays the Edit Marker/Region dialog, which also allows you to
specify triggers. For more information, see MIDI triggers on page 201.
Right-clicking anywhere in the Regions List displays a shortcut menu containing many commands
previously discussed, as well as
Replicate and Copy onto Clipboard.
Creating new files from regions
Sound Forge allows you to quickly create a new file from each region in a file. Sound Forge names each
region by appending a numerical value to a user-specified prefix.
1. Open an audio file and create several regions in it.
2. From the Tools menu, choose Extract Regions. The Extract Regions dialog appears and all current regions
appear in the
Regions to extract pane.
3. Select the regions to be extracted.
4. If the path in the Destination folder box is not appropriate, click the Browse button and browse to the
desired destination folder.
5. Enter the desired prefix in the File name prefix box.
6. If desired, clear the Use Long File Names for destination file names check box and enter an appropriate
numeric value in the
Start file counter index box.
Note: Clearing the Use Long File Names for destination file
names
check box forces file names to conform to the 8.3
naming convention.
7. Click Extract.
Command Description
Replicate Duplicates the selected region and places the copy in the Regions List.
Copy onto Clipboard Copies the selected region’s information onto the clipboard, allowing it to be pasted into
text editors such as Notepad.
Extract Regions dialog