Creating an audio cue list

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Martin Howells
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Creating an audio cue list

Post by Martin Howells » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:22 pm

Hi, I have just downloaded SCS and have spent hours trying to get my mp3 & wave files to be accepted by SCS as a cue list. It's driving me crazy. I like to think of myself as a reasonably inteligent being, but now I'm not sure. It should be easy - right? Open the file containing my source files and import into SCS - but how? There are no clear instructions. Can anybody help?
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Martin

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Re: Creating an audio cue list

Post by Boswell » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:07 pm

Open SCS,
open the editor,
select the 'Cue' tab
select 'Add Playlist Cue'
At the end of the title box (blank) for audio file No 1 there is a small grey box with a row of 3 dots along the bottom, click on it, it will open a new window
Navigate to where your audio files are stored, select them and click on Open.
Repeat for as many files as you like.
Job done

HTH
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Re: Creating an audio cue list

Post by Mike Daniell » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:27 pm

Adding to the information that Boswell has provided, if you want to add audio files as individual cues:

Open SCS,
open the editor,
select the 'Cue' tab
select 'Add Audio File Cue'
Click the 'browse button' (...) to locate and open an audio file (as for playlists).
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Re: Creating an audio cue list

Post by jkowtko » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:54 am

Hmmm ... I don't know why I didn't have this problem initially when I started using SCS, but just looking at the program and the Help docs, it really isn't that intuitive on how to get started ...

It might be a good idea to add something like a "Quick Start" tutorial page to instruct the beginner on how to quickly create a program of audio cues and play them. This probably needs to be no more than a one-pager in the Help docs.

Thanks. John
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