Opening a File |
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Use the Open command to open a media file in a new Sound Forge window. You may quickly reopen one of the previously opened projects by selecting it from the bottom of the File menu.
From the File menu, choose Open. The Open dialog is displayed.
Choose the folder where the file you want to open is stored:
Choose a drive and folder from the Look in drop-down list.
or
Choose a folder from the Recent drop-down list to quickly select a folder from which you have previously opened files.
Select a file in the browse window or type a name in the File name box. Detailed information about the selected file appears at the bottom of the dialog box.
If you know that the file format is unsupported, choose Raw File and click the Open button to display the Open raw data file dialog, where you can specify format parameters.
To
limit the files displayed in the dialog, choose a file type from the Files
of Type drop-down list or enter *. and an extension in the File
name box. For example, enter *.wav
to display all wave files in the current folder, or enter *guitar*.wav
to
display all wave files that have the word guitar
in the file name.
Click the Open button.
On the Open dialog, select the Open as read-only check box if you want to open a sound file but do not want to alter the data in the file.
This feature is useful if you only need to play the file or copy sections from the file. You can still change the Regions List, Playlist, and Summary information for the file, but these changes must be saved to a new file.
You can choose to open uncompressed .aif and .wav files in Direct mode to open a file without creating a temporary file. This speeds the opening process, but doesnt give you the security of a backup file. In most cases this is not a problem since all changes can be undone (if you have enough disk space). However, if Sound Forge terminates improperly, the file will remain in its edited state.
On the Open dialog, select the Operate directly on the sound file check box to open a file in Direct mode.
Notes:
If the Operate directly on the sound file check box is unavailable for an uncompressed .aif or .wav file, the selected file may be saved as a read-only. Right click the file name, choose Properties from the shortcut menu, and clear the Read-only check box.
When you open a sound file, Sound Forge defaults to the edit mode you last selected. You can change modes in the Open dialog.
On the Open dialog, select the Auto play check box if you want Sound Forge to automatically begin playback when a file is selected.
When the Auto play check box is not selected, you can click the Play button to audition the selected sound file without opening it in Sound Forge. During playback, the button changes to a Stop button; click again to stop playback.
If
playing a file from a slow network or CD-ROM, some skipping might occur.
In the Open dialog, select the Merge L/R to stereo check box and hold the Ctrl button while selecting two mono files in the browse window. The two mono files will be merged to the left and right channels of a new stereo file.
The
first file you select will be placed in the left channel, and the
second file will be placed in the right channel.
In the Open dialog, click the More button to display the General tab of the Properties dialog.
If you open an AVI file that contains multiple streams, the Video Stream dialog is displayed after you click the Open button. Use the Video Stream dialog to view information about each stream and to specify which streams you want to open:
Drag the black diamond
to choose the streams you want to open.
Click on the Expand button
to display information about a stream.
Right-click a field name and choose Edit from the shortcut menu to modify a setting.
Click the Contract
button
to hide stream information.