User Manual

WAVELAB
Editing in the Wave window 6 – 117
Opening files
The various methods for opening an audio file in a Wave window are de-
scribed in the section “Opening Waves” on page 71. Importing CD tracks
from an audio CD is described in the section “Importing tracks from an
audio CD” on page 75. Importing tracks from a DVD-Audio disc is de-
scribed in the section “Importing DVD-Audio tracks into WaveLab” on
page 599.
Save and Save as – General information
• When you save a new document for the first time, it doesn’t matter whether
you select Save or Save as.
The “Save as” dialog will appear, since you need to specify a file format, folder, and file name.
• Once a file has been saved, you can continue to edit it and then select Save
from the File menu, or press [Ctrl]-[S], to update the file and make the
changes permanent.
• If you want to specify a new name, location and/or file format, you should
select Save As from the File menu.
See “Saving in another format (Save as…)” on page 117.
• All save operations except “Save Copy” clear the Undo buffers, which
means that after saving you cannot undo or redo.
Automatic backups
For all save operations except a regular “Save”, backups are created au-
tomatically if a file with the same name already exists.
If for example you select Save As and specify a file name already used in
that folder, the program will ask you if you want to back up the existing file
first. If you click Yes, the first letter in the file’s extension will be changed
to “~”. “AIF” for example, will become “~IF”.
Saving in another format (Save as…)
If you want to change the format (file format, sampling frequency, bit res-
olution and stereo/mono status) when saving, proceed as follows:
1. Select Save as… on the File menu.
2. A regular file dialog appears where you can specify a file name, folder and
a file format (see “Supported file formats” on page 113).