Sound forge tutorial Part 5 Video Lecture | Sound Forge: An Ultimate Guide (English) - Video & Sound Editing

alright the next item on the file menu
going down here is the open command will
take a look at the open command in the
file menu but we'll also look at three
alternate ways that you could open files
within sound forge drag and drop from
the desktop or explorer toolbar where
there's actually a toolbar button you
can choose to open files and sound forge
is built handing file explorer we'll
take a look at all four of those in this
movie okay here we are in sound forge
we're on our basic blank workspace we're
going to go up to the file menu and
we're going to choose the open dialog
box now as I mentioned in other movies
you can see that we've got some command
key shortcuts in this case and in some
other cases within sound forge as well
you have multiple choices for the
command key equivalence so in this case
we're open not only do I have this open
dialogue control choice here but I have
control oh I also have control alt f2
and all three will do the exact same
thing so if I click on the open dialog
it presents me with this box here and it
lets me choose whatever file I want to
open lets me look at different kinds of
file types if I don't see the file that
I'm looking for and i'm not sure what
type of file it is i can choose all
files shows me everything that's in that
particular folder or directory a
regardless of whether it's an audio file
or a word doc anything at all i want to
narrow it down a little bit i can also
choose on all known media files then
i'll only show me different kinds of
media files if i were to go up for
example if i were to go to the desktop
here and look in this directory here all
known media files all files would show
me a lot of extra stuff all known media
files would only show me what's there
and if i wanted to get real specific if
i was looking for a specific type of
file and i knew it was a wave i click on
that it would only show me the wave
files that are in that particular
directory so you got a lot of choices
that you can in ways you can look for
files most of the time it defaults to
one of the file formats in here such as
wave but if you know you're looking for
mp3s or the easiest one I use a lot is
all known media files that way then it
shows
what it is I can click on it once and
then I can get the information more
detailed information of it down here in
the bottom part of this dialog box now
there's some other choices you've got in
here you've got recent files it shows
you all of the files that you've opened
here recently within sound forge so if
you're looking for a specific file again
and you've used it recently and you've
been doing a bunch of editing with it it
may already be here in this dialog you
can open the file as read-only why would
you want to do that well if you really
want to be careful with the file you
don't want to make sure that nothing
gets altered or damaged in any way yet
you still need to either listen to the
file critically or you need to perhaps
maybe select a section and cut and paste
it into another file but you want to be
really careful not to do anything to the
file you can then choose this dialog and
it will open the file and allow you to
view it and allow you to play it allow
you to copy sections from it and paste
into another file but it won't let you
do any other edits or alterations to the
file autoplay is a function whereby if I
click this and I select the file it
automatically will preview that file
until I get the stop button here can be
kind of nice if you have to audition a
whole bunch of files in a folder when
you're trying to find the right one and
they all have similar names like this
one does you're not sure which one is
the right one that can be helpful other
times it can be kind of irritating and
you want to turn it off if you do turn
it off and you still want to hear the
file and find out what it is you can
select the file and hit play and it will
automatically go ahead and start playing
the file that way so you have more
control over manually listening to
what's there merge left right to stereo
if you've got two tracks and you know
that they're both mono tracks and you
want to merge them into a stereo file
you can choose this dialog select one
file hold down your Shift key to select
a second file that way then when you
open them they will open up as stereo
files the first one will be in the left
channel i believe and the second will be
in the right channel i'm not going to do
that in this case things how these are
all stereo files and that would be
pretty messed up you have a bunch of
additional information about the file
down here so for example in this case
i'm looking at a file type that's a WAV
file this one above it
is to be an MPEG in MPEG player 3 or an
mp3 file also gives me the sample rate
and the duration of the file this can be
pretty helpful when you're looking for
specifics on a specific file you're
looking for an mp3 maybe have multiple
versions of the same mp3 some are at
different audio sample rates in you're
looking for when it's at the highest
sample rate you can easily find that
information out here if for whatever
reason you're looking down here and
there's not enough information you can
actually click on the more button and
brings up the general properties which
is basically called a meta data and meta
tags that are available for that
particular file gives you the final
location last time it was saved etc etc
so you can find out a lot of very
detailed information about the file
right there in this dialog and it
applies for pretty much all the files
now let's look at a couple of other ways
of opening files inside of sound forge
the next way is right here on the
toolbar you've got an open command and
basically if I click on this it brings
up the same dialog box just another way
to get to the same spot easy way to open
up a file that way then I can select the
file click on open and there we go
another way you can open files within
sound forage and I'm going to squeeze
the program down a little bit so we can
see the desktop behind it is you can
actually drag and drop files right into
the workspace so here I've got a file
that's on my desktop I can literally
click outside the program drag this file
and you can see how it changes to a plus
icon when I drag it in there let go and
there's my file it just opened up and I
can now edit and do whatever I want to
the file from there the last way that
I'm going to show you is I'm going to
open up in the View menu here the
Explorer the Explorer is something that
is configurable you can configure it in
lots of different ways but basically you
can see a hierarchical view and then
within this particular directory that
I'm looking at right here you can see
all the files that are now available to
be open I can double click on one of
those and there it is when we get into
the View menu and we actually look at
the Explorer and some of the other
windows in there a little bit more
detail I'll explain some of the other
functionality that's up here in the
Explorer window but for now I just
wanted you to be able to see the
Explorer some people likely
the Explorer open all the time
especially if you're only editing one
file or maybe two files at a time that
way you don't have many open up here in
the workspace if you're editing and
working with a lot of files and you get
a lot of files layered on top of each
other sometimes you may want to close
the workspace you can also change the
size of the Explorer by just dragging up
and down on the window here and you can
see how the meters and everything
dynamically changes as they alter this
so you can you can size this depending
upon the resolution that you're running
your computer at and if you want to
close it there's a little closed dialog
box here in the upper left corner and
it's closed there are some real quick
and easy ways of in multiple ways of
opening files within sound forge