If you selected from beginning to end, you would export a .wav file that started at the beginning of the project and went to the end. It wouldn't matter whether there was dead space in the file or not. So, if your project was 300 bars long, you'd have an exported file that was 300 bars long. Whereas, if you selected only the region from the beginning to the end of the audio, you would have 28 bars, I guess. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:06 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge Looks like there was dead space at the end of the file, which I removed. However, this is what I'm not understanding; I only recorded 28 bars of the song as audio. So I figured that only those 28 bars would get exported. Am I wrong here? Thanks. Omar Binno ----- Original Message ----- From: James <mailto:malone_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> Malone To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:01 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge Is there dead space either before or after the file? _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:05 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge The file I'm exporting is only about a minute long, but it's taking about 15 minutes to mix down. Omar Binno ----- Original Message ----- From: Luis <mailto:luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx> Elorza To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:45 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: exporting to sound forge to export the mix select file, export , audio. and from the dialog select the preset titled all. type a filename and select file type then go to the export button and hit enter. a wave file must be hours long to use gigabytes. ----- Original Message ----- From: Omar <mailto:omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx> Binno To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:48 PM Subject: [ddots-l] exporting to sound forge Hi All: I'm trying to export a cwp file over to sound forge. After the mix down, the file becomes a wav file, but it's an enormous file, (over 3 gigs.) I'm sure I'm doing something wrong when exporting. Then, when I go to open it in sound forge, I'm getting an error message that says something like "make sure the read only is enabled for this file, (I do have wav checked in the file types.) Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks. Omar Binno