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Marking tracks in an existing project

Once you have laid out your audio project with the appropriate pauses, you can mark tracks and indices either automatically or manually.

Note: In DAO CD burning, Vegas software burns from the beginning of the timeline to the last track marker, regardless of the location of the first track marker. Material before the first marker is included as a hidden track on the disc (if your drive supports burning this material).

Adding pauses

Each audio CD track in your project should have a two-second pause following it. This default setting is based on the Red Book specification for audio CDs. The exception to this standard is a continuous recording, such as a live concert CD. For a continuous recording, you can omit the pauses after tracks for continuous playback. For more information, see Red Book specification on page 385.

Note: The Red Book specification also requires a two-second pause at the beginning of an audio CD. If the first track in your project begins before the two-second mark, a ruler is added offset to ensure the project begins with the required two-second pause.

If you use the Add as CD Track command to add tracks from the Project Media window, the appropriate pauses are added automatically. However, if you are laying out your project manually, you must create these pauses between audio CD tracks.

Two-second pauses

1.Position the cursor where you want to insert the pause.

2.From the Insert menu, choose Time. The Insert Time dialog appears.

3.Enter two seconds in the Amount of time to insert box.

4.Click OK. Two seconds are inserted in the timeline at the cursor position.

Marking tracks automatically

Vegas software can examine the events in your project and mark the audio CD tracks for you. Once the tracks are marked, you can adjust them manually if necessary. For more information, see Moving track and index markers on page 355.

1.Lay out your project with two-second pauses between tracks.

2.From the Tools menu, choose Lay Out Audio CD from Events.

The new audio CD track markers appear on the CD layout bar above the timeline. The name of the media file for each event is used to name the tracks.

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