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[bill brent]

I'll assemble an hours worth of music and dialog - with critical timing transitions - can I then take
that project and rather than burn it to a CD - write it to a wav (or MP3) file

thanks

[Beerman]

bill brent, on Oct 13 2006, 10:22 AM, said:

I'll assemble an hours worth of music and dialog - with critical timing transitions - can I then take
that project and rather than burn it to a CD - write it to a wav (or MP3) file

thanks

Yes, with ease!  Use Sound Editor and you have even more choices but there are also other programs in the suite you can use.  Sound Editor is the best way to go.

[d_deweywright]

bill brent, on Oct 13 2006, 11:22 AM, said:

I'll assemble an hours worth of music and dialog - with critical timing transitions - can I then take
that project and rather than burn it to a CD - write it to a wav (or MP3) file

thanks

Well, you didn't give us much to go on, but if we assume that you're creating this project in Sound Editor, yes.  Just choose the 'Export Mix' or 'Export Track/Clips' options.  It will allow you to choose the file type you want to save it to (.MP3 or .WAV) and then do it.

Hope that helps!

[bill brent]

thanks - i'm creating the project in roxio easy creator - as though i were making a music cd -

I have a few other sound eniting programs, but this one is the easiest to set up the tracks
(wav and mps) - then set the transitions.  what I do now is burn a CD-RW, then rip it to a wav,
then convert it to mp3.

what i need -at the end of day - is a mp3 file

d_deweywright, on Oct 13 2006, 07:43 AM, said:

Well, you didn't give us much to go on, but if we assume that you're creating this project in Sound Editor, yes.  Just choose the 'Export Mix' or 'Export Track/Clips' options.  It will allow you to choose the file type you want to save it to (.MP3 or .WAV) and then do it.

Hope that helps!

[d_deweywright]

bill brent, on Oct 13 2006, 11:57 AM, said:

thanks - i'm creating the project in roxio easy creator - as though i were making a music cd -

I have a few other sound eniting programs, but this one is the easiest to set up the tracks
(wav and mps) - then set the transitions.  what I do now is burn a CD-RW, then rip it to a wav,
then convert it to mp3.

what i need -at the end of day - is a mp3 file

Then indeed you need to create your project in Sound Editor.  And we still don't know exactly how you're doing your project yet, you could be doing it in the "Home" application, selecting "Music CD" or you could be doing it in "Music Disc Creator", two quite different applications.  Keep in mind that in Easy Media Creator, there is usually at least two ways to do the same thing, sometimes three or four, using all of the various applications.

But, stick with Sound Editor for what you're describing here.  You have all sorts of output options, and better control of the overlaps.  See this post here for a description of one way to do what you want in Sound Editor.

Hope that helps!

Edited by d_deweywright, 13 October 2006 - 08:39 AM.

[grandpabruce]

bill brent, on Oct 13 2006, 10:57 AM, said:

thanks - i'm creating the project in roxio easy creator - as though i were making a music cd -

I have a few other sound eniting programs, but this one is the easiest to set up the tracks
(wav and mps) - then set the transitions.  what I do now is burn a CD-RW, then rip it to a wav,
then convert it to mp3.

what i need -at the end of day - is a mp3 file

Sound Editor is one of the programs in EMC 8.

[bill brent]

well - that solves a problem I didn't know I had - but would have surely been a bad thing
it seems that in creting a music cd this software will automatically fade in and out at overlapping transitions?

well that makes it pretty much worthless to me for 97% of what I do. -

I'll revert back to v5 for that -

and give sound editor a try for the rest

thanks

[d_deweywright]

bill brent, on Oct 13 2006, 01:19 PM, said:

well - that solves a problem I didn't know I had - but would have surely been a bad thing
it seems that in creting a music cd this software will automatically fade in and out at overlapping transitions?

well that makes it pretty much worthless to me for 97% of what I do. -

I'll revert back to v5 for that -

and give sound editor a try for the rest

thanks

Sound Editor won't do any automatic fading, that only occurs when you're doing transitions in Music CD Creator, which you can't use to create your .MP3 file.  The post I referenced there was showing how to use Sound Editor to get around the automatic fade-in problem.

Again, Sound Editor will let you do exactly what you want to do.

Edited by d_deweywright, 13 October 2006 - 04:55 PM.

[bill brent]

thanks - that's what i understood it to mean -

I was only pointing out that - since i use "creator" to make mix cd's -
v8 and v9 are useless to me.  Though I will try sound editor for the
mp3 output I need

[d_deweywright]

bill brent, on Oct 14 2006, 08:15 PM, said:

thanks - that's what i understood it to mean -

I was only pointing out that - since i use "creator" to make mix cd's -
v8 and v9 are useless to me.  Though I will try sound editor for the
mp3 output I need

Well, I'd say, "next to useless" compared to ECDC 5.  You could use the mix from Sound Editor as the source for your final CD, but then you'd want to split it back into individual tracks.  Yes, ECDC 5 is much more useful for a mix CD.