M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 264)

Pro Tools Reference Guide 246
Saving Search Results as a
Catalog
(DigiBase Pro Only)
To save the results of your search as a Catalog:
1 Choose Edit > Select All, or press Control+A
(Windows) or Command+A (Mac), to select all
items in the Items List.
2 From the Browser menu, choose Create Cata-
log .
Waveforms
The Waveform column displays waveforms for
audio files. Waveform display depends on the
following:
• Waveforms are displayed if they have already
been calculated and stored, either with the file
metadata or in the global Waveform cache.
• When a file is imported into a session, a wave-
form is automatically calculated for it, if nec-
essary.
• Waveforms are gray if they have not been
stored with the file metadata or in the global
Waveform cache.
The waveform overview is stored in the file, or
in the appropriate Digidesign Databases folder.
For more information, see “WaveCache” on
page 246.
Summed Waveforms for Multichannel Files
Waveform displays for stereo and multichannel
files are summed.
Calculating Waveforms for Display
If an audio file item does not have a waveform,
the waveform must be calculated to be visible in
a browser Waveform display.
To calculate waveforms in a browser:
1 Select online audio files, or folders containing
audio files, in a browser.
2 Choose Calculate Waveform from the Browser
menu.
WaveCache
A global WaveCache file stores waveforms that
cannot be written back to the sound file, such as
read-only files, files on network and other read-
only volumes, and interleaved files. The global
WaveCache is stored in the Digidesign Data-
bases folder on your Pro Tools startup volume.
For write-enabled volumes, the cache is stored
with the volume’s Digidesign Database files, on
that volume.
For more information, see “DigiBase Pro
Catalogs” on page 265.
Waveform displays in a browser