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2015/02/12 01:00:44 (permalink)

Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File

I mixed down several tracks in Sonar Producer to 1 audio track.  Then exported it at 44hz at 16 bit.  The Wave file is a whopping 382 MB.  I need to get 5 tracks on a CD, not just 1 before i run out of room on the 700 MB CD.  What can I do to reduce the size, seems like it should be about 50 MB.  I must be doing something wrong.  Help please.
 
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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/12 01:25:44 (permalink)
    Unusually large exports are often the result of automation nodes or other events far to the right on the timeline resulting in an unexpectedly long export. This can be corrected by deleting events past the end of the project or specifying a time range to export. A time range may be set by dragging across the timeline or using Select By Time/From/Thru options .
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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/12 08:10:36 (permalink)
    It could also be that you are exporting at a bit rate much higher than the Red Book CD standard, which is 16/44.1.
     
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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/12 09:33:30 (permalink)
    You should have about 10 MB per minute of stereo. I think scook probably nailed it, first "select all" for the export, then specify a range on the timeline to export. 

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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/12 18:53:42 (permalink)
    You know what would be a great workflow, it just occurred to me?
     
    You'd select all, then do EXPORT > AUDIO, and then you'd get some sort of version of the navigation view in  a dialog box, where you could set your start and end points. Sonar could do a best guess, but let you change it if it was wrong. And it could keep the settings as part of the project, so it's just a click-through if it's already right.
     
    The current system works fine, once you're used to it, but it's really error prone. Like accidentally selecting all if the last thing you did was on a bus, you end up selecting no audio. I think deriving the export range wholly from the standard selection paradigm is a bit messy.
     

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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/12 19:49:01 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby John T 2015/02/13 18:36:41
    Agreed - selection was the simplest way to implement it but its not the most intuitive esp when you want to export the entire project. I've wanted to simplify improve selection process in the export/bounce dialogs for some time. A start/end control would be useful along with a quick way to export the entire project.

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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/13 00:14:24 (permalink)
    Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
    Agreed - selection was the simplest way to implement it but its not the most intuitive esp when you want to export the entire project. I've wanted to simplify improve selection process in the export/bounce dialogs for some time. A start/end control would be useful along with a quick way to export the entire project.



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    Re: Basic Question Please regarding exporting to Wave File 2015/02/13 20:16:39 (permalink)
    Yeah, yeah! And the selection dialog (that I'm sure Noel is already sketching out on the back of a napkin in preparation to sending to development) would also show you how the time duration of the resulting wav. AND there would be a checkbox to "include tails" regardless of the selection, meaning that the output would continue on to include data until the output drops to digital infinity--so you could have an abrupt cutoff or an "organic" ending to your selection.

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