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Hi Guys,

I posted this question a few weeks ago and I think I got some assurance that this works, but before I plunk down these hundreds of dollars, I wanted to ask anyone who has the new SmartEdit OS is this is as easy as I'm imagining it to be.

I have a Kron with 4.1c. I'm just finishing editing a bunch of seminar videos. Each session is less than an hour long. I expect to have about 12 hour long sessions on six DVDs.

After I finish creating the DVDs (they'll have menus and two one-hour talks per DVD) I want to upgrade to the new OS for the sole purpose of being able to pull the finished DVDs back into the Kron, separate each one hour talk, and create audio CDs. Obviously, the audio CDs would be twice the number of DVDs.

Is it as easy as just all that? With the new OS, my Kron will recognize each one hour session as a seperate entity and let me convert it to an audio CD? Even though it's now embedded on a disc with other talks and a menu?

And this won't be some monstrous learning curve just to do this one thing? (I expect to have to work to learn the rest of the OS, but I'd like to get these CDs done asap.)

Hope my question makes sense. I'm a little giddy with eggnog right now.

Holly Happydays.

-JOHN

Hi John,
depending upon the Smart Edit OS in "Special" you can create sound samples of any
scene you desire.
These sound samples are saved in the audio record menu from here you can burn your CDs.

John, you did mention that you currently run OS 4.1c. I have 6.2c on my Kron.

Using Ksebara you can bring back a Casablanca dvd and it will place it in your scene bin just as if you had inputted from tape. However, it takes considerably longer than real time and there will be slight degradation due to the transcoding.

I'm not sure why you need to bring it back in if you already have it to produce the video dvds. With OS 4 you can just do what Hans suggested. Alternatively, you could send the project out to tape and bring it back for future purposes. Also, you would not experience any loss depending on your output/input methods.

As the guys mentioned John, you can record to CD with your existing 4.1c OS.

Just choose the Scene whose audio you want to take out to CD and go into Special, scroll to Scene->Sample in the top alphabetical portion, choose Ok.

Your audio is on in the Audio-Record, Edit menu.

Switch to that menu and Record your audio out to CD.

You should have a little bit of silence as both the beginning and end of the Sample so nothing is cut off in the Recording to CD.

Do this with every Scene you wish to turn into a CD.

Hi John,
Happy Holidays to you too!

Our Cassies were not given the ability to burn audio CDs until SE5.

It would be a very simple matter to create audio CDs from your programs with SE 8. Howevah, jumping 4 versions of the OS probably requires a destructive install. So you'd be ready to enjoy the benefits of several years of improvements, but your seminars would have been erased during the installation process.

The instructions on page 67 of the Smart Edit 7 manual state that "Note: The audio format MP3 is also supported. It is possible to import from CD and DVD." This does not appear to be completely accurate. It will "rip" (input at many times the normal playback speed) an audio CD, and I believe an MP3 CD, however I just tried to get SE 8 to load a DVD with both audio and video and it did not recognize the DVD in the audio record menu.

So it appears that you'd have to play the DVDs back into the Kron real time from an external DVD player to import the audio to burn to a CD. (There's no need to import all of the video, just the audio, so no need for Ksebara.) If I'm wrong here somebody please jump in.

There are programs that will run on your PC or Mac that will rip audio from a DVD and burn it to a CD in a variety of audio formats (wav, MP3, Og Vorbis, etc.) Just do an internet search on DVD audio ripper

Once you do have SE8 installed, not only will you you find it easy to burn audio CDs from your projects, you will also be able to input audio from your home stereo receiver and whatever components are plugged into it, including turntable, cassette deck, etc. You can then edit, split cassette and album sides into individual tracks, and burn CDs from your old records and tapes.