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The Pool
Operations
• The width of a column can also be adjusted by placing the pointer between two
column headers and dragging left or right.
The pointer changes to a divider when you place it between two column headers.
Operations
Most of the Pool-related main menu functions are also available on the Pool context
menu (opened by right-clicking in the Pool window).
Renaming clips or regions in the Pool
To rename a clip or a region in the Pool, select it and click on the existing name, type
in a new name and press [Return].
Ö This will also rename the referenced files on disk!
Duplicating clips in the Pool
To duplicate a clip, proceed as follows:
1. Select the clip you wish to copy.
2. Select “New Version” on the Media menu.
A new version of the clip appears in the same Pool folder, with the same name but
with a “version number” after it, to indicate that the new clip is a duplicate. The first
copy made of a clip will get the version number “2” and so on. Regions within a clip
are copied too, but keep their name.
Inserting clips into a project
To insert a clip into a project, you can either use the Insert commands on the Media
menu or use drag and drop.
Using menu commands
Proceed as follows:
1. Select the clip(s) you want to insert into the project.
2. Open the Media menu and select an “Insert into Project” option.
• Note that the clip will be positioned so that its snap point is aligned with the
selected insert position.
You can also open the Sample Editor for a clip by double-clicking it, and perform
the insert operation from there. This way you can set the snap point before
inserting a clip.
3. The clip is inserted on the selected track or on a new audio track.
If several tracks are selected, the clip will be inserted on the first selected track.
!
Renaming a clip in the Pool is much preferred to renaming it outside Cubase (for
example on the computer desktop). This way, Cubase already “knows” about the
change, and will not lose track of the clip the next time you open the project. See
“About missing files” on page 384 for details about lost files.
!
Duplicating a clip does not create a new file on disk, but a new edit version of the clip
(referring to the same audio file).