Viewing or Editing File Properties |
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From the File menu, choose Properties (or double-click any of the boxes in the status bar) to view or edit information about the active sound file.
This information is saved with the file and can be displayed by media players when you save your project in a different file format.
The General tab contains technical information about the current sound file, including size, location, file type, and file attributes. This information is for display only.
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.wav files are composed of sections called RIFF chunks. These chunks
contain the sound data plus other embedded information. If there are
any nonstandard chunks found in the current file, the Junk
chunks, Padding
chunks, and Additional
chunks fields will be marked Yes.
These chunks might be used by other sound utilities or contain
extraneous information that can cause glitching in some programs.
The Summary tab contains extra information that can be embedded in the sound file. This tab is available only for .wav, .avi, and .mp3 files.
Item |
Description |
Title |
Enter the title of the project. |
Subject |
Enter name of the artist who performed in the project. |
Engineer |
Enter the name of the person who engineered the project. |
Copyright |
Enter copyright information about the project. |
Comments |
Enter any comments you want to associate with the project. |
Extended |
Click to display the Extended Summary dialog. |
Load |
Click to set the current files summary information fields to the default settings. The default values can be set in the Extended Summary dialog. |
Picture |
Click to display the Open Picture dialog, where you can select an icon, bitmap or cursor to be attached to the current file. |
Use the Format tab to change the data format of the current data window. For more information about data formats, click here.
Item |
Description |
Sample rate |
Choose a sample rate from the drop-down list or enter a value in the edit box.
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Bit depth |
Choose a bit depth from the drop-down list to specify the format used to store each sample value.
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Channels |
Click the Mono or Stereo radio button to select the number of tracks stored in the file.
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Source |
Displays the sample rate, bit-depth, and number of channels in the source file. |
Temporary |
Displays the sample rate, bit-depth, and number of channels in the temporary file. |
Process/DSP |
Displays the sample rate, bit-depth, and number of channels used when processing your file. |
Playback |
Displays the sample rate, bit-depth, and number of channels that will be used for playback. |
Cursor position |
Displays the cursor position in the sound file using the current units. |
Sample value |
Displays the sample value at the current cursor position in the sound file:
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Peak data ratio |
Displays the ratio at which the peak data is stored. This means that when zoomed out beyond 1:512, the peak file, instead of the entire file is scanned when drawing the waveform. |
Sound data size |
Displays the amount of storage space being used by the sound data. |
Video source format |
Displays the frame size (height, width, bits per pixel) and compression algorithm of the original AVI file. |
Video decompression format |
Displays the intermediate frame size (height, width, bits per pixel) and compression algorithm used by Sound Forge before displaying the video frames. The video decompression mode can be changed from the Perform tab in the Preferences dialog. |
Undo buffers |
Displays the number of undo buffers that exist for the sound file and the amount of hard-drive space they consume. |
Redo buffers |
Displays the number of redo buffers that exist for the sound file and the amount of hard-drive space they consume. |
The Video tab contains information specific to Microsoft AVI files.
An AVI file can contain multiple video and/or audio streams (or tracks). For example, you can include multiple audio tracks in different languages to go along with a video. When playing back, Microsofts Media player detects the operating system's language and plays the corresponding video stream.
Item |
Description |
Stream |
Displays information about the video and/or audio streams present in the AVI file, such as name, compression format, frame rate, and language.
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Streams that are checked |
Attach/Detatch |
If your sound file does not currently contain any video, you can attach a video from an AVI file by clicking the Attach button. If your file already has a video stream, click the Detach button to remove the stream. |
The Display tab allows you to change which controls are displayed when the sound file is open in a data window. Selecting a check box will display that item in the current sound files data window. An unchecked item will not be displayed.
To set the current settings as the default display for all sound files, simply select the Save as the default for all new windows check box.