User Manual

WAVELAB
24 – 604 Creating labels
Introduction
The Label Editor allows you to design and print custom labels for your CD
and DVD-Audio projects. You can design separate layouts for front, inside,
back and disk labels. Both text information and a wide
range of image file
formats can be imported and edited in various ways.
For DVD-Audio projects, you can create labels from within the Audio Mon-
tage, or you need to start the Label Editor and create them from scratch.
About variables and templates
Every CD Project/Audio Montage/Backup Plan/Import Audio CD Tracks
session has a default set of “variables”, text that consists of a short code
string plus a value. Variables provide information about a project, such as
track titles, personal data, etc. There are two types of variables: factory
and user editable.
Factory variables automatically provide information based on the contents
of a project, and user editable variables can be customized to
suit the
current project. Variables are also used for the Audio CD
Report func-
tion (see “Creating an Audio CD report” on page 541).
Templates are ready-made layouts that will use the information provided
by the variables.
You can freely customize the properties of a template layout by using the
Label Editor. Add new images or other objects, delete or edit existing ob-
jects, etc.
Selecting a template
The first thing you do before the Label Editor is opened is to select a tem-
plate. As mentioned previously, templates provide some information based
on the current project, and have ready-made layouts:
1. Open the project you wish to create labels for.
This can be a CD Project, an Audio Montage, an Import Audio CD Tracks session or a
Backup Plan.
2. Select the “Create Label set…” menu item.
Where this menu item is located depends on the type of project; for Audio Montages and
Backup Plans it is on the Functions menu, for Data CD/DVD it is on the CD menu, and for
Import Audio CD Tracks it is on the Options menu.