Saving Your Project

Immediately after you create a new project, you can save it as a project file to your computer s disk drive. Until the project is saved, no information or changes you make will be permanent. 

From the File menu, select Save (or press Ctrl -I- S). 

The first time this is done, the Save As dialog box opens. Browse for a location on your computer s hard disk drive (HDD) and enter a name for the new project The name will have the format of MYPROJECT.ACD, where MYPROJECT is any name you want. The. acd extension is required for AQD project files. 

After a project has been saved, future saves can be accomplished by pressing Ctrl + S. It is a good idea to get into the habit of reflexively hitting Ctrl -I- S whenever you ve made a change that you like or as frequently as possible. To create a copy of a project, from the File menu, select Save As and enter a new name. This is a great way to create different versions of the same song. 

The Save and Save As commands are used only to save proprietary ACID project files (. acd). When you are ready to create a song for general playback on any media player, to hum to a CD, or to publish on the Internet, use the Render As command. 

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Calculate your ROI. Subtract your estimated total investment to develop and implement your safety training initiatives from your projected savings of achieving your goal(s). Then subtract that number from your current costs for that loss prevention area. The result will be your estimated ROI. 

The final step in any ACID project is the creation of a song. Up to this point, the project has been saved only as an ACID project file (. acd). For this reason, the only way to hear the song is to play it back from within ACID. In order to make the song more universally available, it needs to be saved into a standard multimedia file format. The process of creating a multimedia file from a project file is called rendering. The format that you choose to render your project to is an important decision that affects the size of the media file, the quality, and how accessible it is to others. Your choices are pretty clear cut ... 

Savings. Savings. Savings. No other stretch-wrap method can beat its overall cost efficiency. Call for a free analysis of your projected savings. 

Figure 3.3 depicts money received (or income) with vertical arrows pointing upward money paid out (or expenses) is depicted by vertical arrows pointing downward. With the aid of Figure 3.3 you can represent almost any complicated financial plan for a project. For example, suppose you deposit 1000 now (the present value P) in a bank savings account that pays 5.00 percent annual interest compounded monthly, and in addition you plan to deposit 100 per month at the end of each month for the next year. What will the future value F of your investments be at the end of the year Figure 3.4 outlines the arrangement on the time line. 

This allows you to store your layout (Save layout...) and to reload it (Load layout...) for later use in order to get standardised plots of your 2D spectra. With these commands the kind of windows (spectrum, title, parameter), their position and size and additional features (axis, units, projections, parameters,...) are stored and loaded respectively. After loading a layout, these layout parameters may be inspected and if necessary modified in the Page Setup dialog box opened with the Page Setup... command (section 4.10.2) before a data set is loaded and plotted. 

In this section, you inventory your retirement assets, project them to the year you plan to retire, compare the results to the total savings required at retirement, and calculate the additional amount you must save each year to meet your retirement income needs. 

The Ultimate pH Solution diet and lifestyle is not a make-work project. It is a make your body work better for you project, to give you more energy and vitality and lessen your risk of developing the numerous health problems related to our modem way of living and eating. In the next chapter, you will find more than 50 recipes to get you started on delicious, nutritious alkaline or wise acid meals. You will probably save money on your grocery bill, because meat, processed foods, and treats are often the most expensive items at the supermarket. And you are paying for those items twice with your money and your health. I m not a zealot with my diet, and I don t expect anyone else to be. 

Here are some of the things you may find outside during your nature walks. These can be saved for a later project. 

Upper management must be eonvineed of the benefits and value of doing the project before it is started. Mar r times a simple table like the one shown above with figures from your own eompaity can put some real numbers in front of them and show the potential savings for your business. This tends to bring the savings home. 

AQD calculates and draws the waveforms of media files as they are inserted. For short media files Oike most loop files), this can he done extremely quickly. The waveform for longer media files—typically, entire songs or the sound track to a video file— take much longer to draw. In these situations, AQD stores the waveform drawing for future reference on your hard disk as an. sfk file. For example, if you inserted suppers ready.mp3 into a project, AQD would calculate the waveform and save it to suppers ready.sfk. Yon can delete these small. sfk files at any time AQD will redraw them as necessary. 

Besides the actual process of finishing up the musical parts of the song, ACID project management becomes more of a concern as a project matures. For example, once you have a song that you really like, you can use the Save As command to create a new version of the song that you can continue to modify, safe in the knowledge that the original is preserved. Since project files are relatively small, there is no reason not to archive projects or even the evolution of a project over time. You ll certainly wish you had when your label wants you to start work on your second album. 

To reverse this process and extract the original media files from an. acd-zip file, from the File menu, select Export Loops. Browse for a location to save the fdes to and click the Save button. It is not a bad idea to create a new folder to store these files in, because there can sometimes be quite a few files in a project. You can select a format for the new media files finm the Save as type list (for example,. wav). Selecting a compressed format such as. mp3 can save room on your disk, but the quality of the loops may suffer. See Chapter 10 on Publishing for more information on file formats, compression, and quality. 

A media file is saved to your computer and a new track is inserted into the project with an event that contains the recording. The name of the file and the location where the file is saved can be set up in the Record dialog box in the File name and Record folder boxes. It is a pretty good idea to set up a folder dedicated to holding your recordings instead of using the default location where AQD was installed. 

As mentioned in the previous section, loop files irom Sonic Foundry (or any audio files that have been ACIDized) have some information about pitch, heat, and tempo saved with the file that instruct ACID how to deal with it. This information becomes relevant when the loop is inserted into a track in an ACID project. This means that a loop s default properties are identical to those of the track into which it is inserted. While both the loop s properties and its associated track s properties can be changed independently, changes to a loop s properties are permanent and saved to the media file on your hard disk. Changes to a track s properties are saved only to the current project. Many of a loop s properties are displayed in the Explorer window in the Summary View area (click the View button to view/hide this feature) when a media file is selected (see Figure 9.1). 

This will extract, or rip, the entire song from the CD to your hard disk drive in an uncompressed form and takes roughly ten to twenty seconds for every minute of audio, depending on the speed of your CD-ROM drive. The final file size will be about 10 MB per minute of audio. The file will be automatically named and saved to the ACID program s root directory. An additional file called a peak file (. sfk) will also be saved in the same directory as the file. This is a small file that basically contains a picture of the waveform of the file to help ACID display the file more quickly on the timeline. You can delete this file if you want, but ACID will spend some small amount of time recreating it every time you use the media file in a project. 

The new loop file will be saved to your hard disk with the name you have selected. Remember to press F5 in ACID s Explorer window to refresh the window and see any new files. The newly rendered loop will have a tempo that is equal to the project s tempo in beats per minute and will automatically be a loop track if it is between the default durations of 0.5 seconds and 30 seconds. The Number of beats on the Stretch tab will be four times the number of measures of the loop region in the project (four beats per measure). The root note will be the project s default key, but this will have no bearing on the actual key of the media file itself. 

Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio (. pca) is another proprietary format from Sonic Foundry. This is a newer and more advanced format that compresses files losslessly. This means that the file size of a. pca file is considerably smaller than standard uncompressed file formats while retaining 100 percent of the original file quality. For audio files that will remain on your computer, this is an excellent choice, since you can save disk space without sacrificing quality. Use caution when distributing. pca files to others, because they won t be able to use them unless they have Sonic Foundry software installed. The amount of lossless compression depends on the complexity of the project and the source media used, but it can typically result in a file-size savings of 30 percent or so. 

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