Meld Project To Audio File Settings
Menu Command: File | Meld Project To Audio File
Combines all audio sections into a single audio file. After entering a filename and selecting the audio type to use,
the following audio settings are presented.
- Project range
- Sets the amount of the project to meld to the file.
- Entire project
- The entire project is melded to the file
- Selected sections
- Only the selected sections are melded to the file
- Up to edit marker
- The beginning of the project up to the current position of the edit marker is melded to the file. Set
the edit marker before melding.
- From the edit marker
- The end of the project starting at the current position of the edit marker is melded to the file. Set
the edit marker before melding.
- Quick presets
- Provides a drop-down list of commonly used settings and sets the rate, channel, and bitrate filters to match. This
considerably narrows down the number of items in the audio attributes list below. Some file types support a
very limited combination of attributes, so some presets may not list any compatible attributes. You'll need
to select a different preset or select the "Custom..." preset and then use the rate, channel, and bitrate filters
below to find compatible attributes.
- Audio attributes
- Lists combinations of attributes supported by file type selected when entering the filename. Just above the list
are three drop-down list boxes for filtering the attributes based on sampling rate, the number of channels, and
the bitrate. If you require a certain sampling rate, number of channels, or bitrate, select those settings
from the drop-down list boxes first, then select the attributes from the list.
- Sampling rate
- Sets the sampling rate for certain attributes that support any sampling rate.
The bitrate controls the quality and size of the file. The higher the bitrate, the better the quality, but the more
storage/bandwidth required. Simply multiple the bitrate number by 8 to determine the number
of number of kilobytes of storage required for each second of audio. When using an uncompressed or lossless file type, such as
Wave or FLAC, the bitrate setting is ignored.
A sampling rate of 96000 Hz should not be used unless audio files in the project are of the same high quality.
Melding with a higher bitrate or sampling rate than the original audio files does not improve quality and only
wastes storage space and bandwidth.