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ball button.

Step 6: Audio mixing

You now can begin audio mixing. Call up the
"

Audio Record, Edit

" screen. Here you will add

commentary and a piece of music to your short
film. To do this you must connect a microphone
and an audio source (e.g. tape deck), Or you can
import a song directly from a CD.

Recording audio

In the

Audio Record, Edit

screen, the first thing

you see is the

Input

selection button. Use it to

select the option "

Microphone"

You should already be able to hear the mic audio
and see the swing in the dB level indicators (above
and to the left).

In principle audio recording works just like video
recording. This means that you start with your
music source, (e.g. a tape deck), or you speak your
commentary into a microphone.

To record this material on the hard drive you
must first click on the red

Record

button at the

bottom right in the menu. The counter to the left
begins to count (just as when recording video)
and displays real time. Now speak a short com-
mentary into the microphone, (e.g. "

My first

video with Casablanca

").

Next, record some music of your choice into the

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machine. This can come

from any audio source than can be connected via
RCA cables.

Direct audio conversion from CD.

To quickly load in music from a cd, open the
DVD writer tray and put in a cd and close the
tray.

Go to the

Audio Record, Edit

screen and click

New Sample

" . In the New Sample menu select

the CD Audio option, and then click "

You will now see the CD Audio menu. Click on
the "

CD Contents

" button, and a list of the songs

on the CD will appear to the left. Select the song

you wish to convert and click"

". After a mo-

ment, the song will now appear in the list of audio
samples. It is a good idea to rename the sample at
this point.

You can hear the result of your audio recording by
clicking the Play button. With the

Trim

function

you can set precisely the beginning and end of the
audio sample. You may wish to split the recording
into individual parts by clicking on the

Split

button.

Audio trimming works almost like video
trimming. Click on "

Trim

" and the following

menu appears:

You can click either the "

" or "

OUT

" button

(depending on whether you want to shorten
the audio from the beginning or from the end)
and then scroll through the recording to set the
position of the

Out

point. Alternatively, you

can use the arrow buttons for trimming frame-by-
frame.

Clicking on the "|>" symbol plays the first 3
seconds, clicking on the ">|" symbol plays the
last 3 seconds before the

Out

point. This makes

it much easier to find the exact end of the audio,
because it is not necessary to play the entire piece
in order to check the

Out

point. This is especially

helpful when dealing with longer audio samples.

Now give your music sample and your
commentary sample a name. Simply click to the
left below on the gray rectangle with the default
name suggested by

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