Disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning

The DAO burning process involves arranging your media on the timeline, adding pauses between tracks as necessary, inserting track markers, and burning your CD.

Adding pauses

Each 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. You can manually insert silence between your audio files to create a pause.

Note: The Red Book specification also requires a two-second pause at the beginning of an audio CD. This pause is automatically added when you burn your CD.

1.Position your audio files on the timeline in the order in which you want them to play on your CD.

2.Position the cursor where you want to insert the pause between files.

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

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

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

Inserting CD track markers

You can use CD track markers in your project to indicate to the CD-R device where to mark the beginning and ending of a track during the writing process. A Red Book CD can contain up to 99 tracks.

1.Position your audio files and add pauses between them as necessary. For more information, see Adding pauses on page 53.

2.Position the cursor at the start of an audio file.

3.From the Insert menu, choose CD Track Marker. The marker appears in the marker bar and is automatically numbered.

Important: You must place your first CD track marker at the beginning of your project. Audio placed before the first marker will not be burned to CD.

Tip: Once you have inserted a marker, you can move or delete them as needed.

4.Repeat step 3 until you have marked all CD tracks.

Burning a disc (disc-at-once)

1.Insert a blank CD in a supported CD-R/CD-RW drive.

2.From the Tools menu, choose Burn Disc-at-Once Audio CD. The Burn Disc-at-Once Audio CD dialog appears.

3.From the Drive drop-down list, use the CD drive that you want to use to burn your CD.

4.From the Speed drop-down list, choose the speed at which you want to burn. Max will use your drive’s fastest possible speed; decrease the setting to prevent the possibility of buffer underruns.

5.Select the Buffer underrun protection check box if your CD recorder supports buffer underrun protection. Buffer underrun protection allows a CD recorder to stop and resume burning.

Note: Buffer underrun protection can create a disc that can be played in CD players, but may contain a bit error where burning stopped and restarted. Consider clearing this check box when creating a premaster disc.

6.Choose a radio button in the Burn mode box:

•Burn CDs begins recording audio to your CD immediately.

•Test first, then burn CDs performs a test to determine whether your files can be written to the CD recorder without encountering buffer underruns. No audio is recorded to the CD during the test, and recording begins after the test if it is successful.

•Test only (do not burn CDs) performs a test to determine whether your files can be written to the CD recorder without encountering buffer underruns. No audio is recorded to the CD.

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