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The Audio Montage
4. If you later want to be able to lengthen the clips in the
cloned Montage, you need to specify a clip margins value
greater than zero.
This feature allows you to add a specified number of seconds before and
after the beginning and end of the clip range in the created audio files.
5. If you want the clips in the cloned Montage to have the
names of their respective audio file, activate the option
“Reset clip names from file names”.
6. If you want the markers in the original audio files to be
included in the cloned files, activate the option “Copy au-
dio file markers”.
7. Click the Schedule tab to make settings for Priority,
Completion, etc.
The options are the same as when using the Render function in the Mas-
ter Section (see “Options on the Schedule tab” on page 104). Note that
the process will happen in the background, allowing you to continue
working in WaveLab Studio (although not with the Montage being
cloned).
8. Click Clone.
The audio files and the Montage are cloned. When finished, the cloned
Montage will appear in a new Montage window.
Backing up Montages
The Audio Montage has a special backup mechanism,
which allows you to maintain previous versions of saved
Montages, and have the Audio Montage automatically
saved. It works in the following way:
• Each time you save the Audio Montage, the previously
saved version is copied to the subfolder “Backup.mon” (in
the same folder as the Audio Montage file).
This backup folder is automatically created by WaveLab Studio. The
backup files are named “Montage_#X”, where “Montage” is the name of
the Montage and “X” is a number.
• You can specify how many previous versions you want
to keep.
The maximum number of stored backup versions is 1000 (this is possible
since Montage files are small, containing no audio data). Once the spec-
ified number of backups has been created, the oldest file will be overwrit-
ten each time the Montage is backed up.
• “Untitled” Montages (that are not yet saved) are also
backed up.
The backup files for “Untitled” Montages are saved in the Windows tem-
porary folder, and use a number as Montage name, so that the files are
called “Y_#X”, where “Y” is a number identifying the Montage and “X” is
the number of the backup file. Once the Montage is saved, these “tem-
porary backup files” can be discarded.
Setting up
You make backup settings in the History view:
1. Select the History view by clicking the History tab.
2. Pull down the History view : Backup menu and select
“Backup options…”.
The Backup options dialog appears.
Split files to remove
unused ranges
Unused ranges in the files are removed, but in-
stead of concatenating the used sections of a
file (as with the previous option), the file is split
when a range is removed.
Create exactly one file per
clip
Every clip in the Montage clone will reference to
a unique file, containing only the audio used in
the clip. The files will be named after the clips,
with the addition of a number if several clips
have the same name.
Create one file per clip,
avoid duplicates
As the previous option, but if two clips use the
exact same audio range, a common file is cre-
ated for these clips.
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This is only relevant if you have selected any other
option than the first one (“Recreate exact audio
files”).
Option Description
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This means that the numbers in the backup file
names are not related to the age of the backup files.
Instead, you need to check the dates of the files to
know which backup is the most recent.