03 Installing Demo Projects Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video I'm gonna show you how to
download and install the demo songs for
traction 5 I'm also going to show you
how I like to organize the files for
traction now to grab the demo songs go
back into traction comm and then go to
the downloads page just like we did for
the softer but you'll see on here we've
got the demo songs if we click here then
we can open up this section and we've
got three different demo songs so you
just click on each of these and download
them to your system so I already did
that and I have them on my desktop here
now I like to organize all of my
traction projects onto a second hard
drive called music so I'm gonna click
here on my music Drive now if you don't
have a music Drive and you have just one
then you're probably gonna want to put
this in your Documents folder this will
be the same on Windows or on Mac I like
to keep all of the files related to
traction all organized into one spot
because it really makes it a lot easier
to find your projects when you're ready
to work on them
but it also makes backing them up much
much easier so I'm going to go to my
music Drive and create a new folder and
the folder I just call it traction and
you have to spell it right and then
under the traction folder I'm gonna
create another new folder here and call
this projects and I do this because
there's other things in traction that I
want to collect into this tractions
folder besides just the projects there's
preset settings keymaps other kinds of
files that are created by traction and I
just want a place to organize them all
so now that I've got my projects folder
created we're just gonna drag the demo
projects up into here now if you look at
these they say Trk arc that means their
attraction archive format so it's kind
of like a zip file but we'll use
traction itself to extract those so now
that I've got basically my folder
structure set up I'm gonna go back into
traction now in traction we want to make
sure we're on the project's tab and then
to open project from here I'm going to
navigate to the folder that I just set
up so I'll go to music traction projects
we'll just
with the first one and open it now when
you click on an archived traction we'll
unpack that archive into a project
folder right here it's asked me where I
want to put that well I want to put it
into the traction projects folder and
I'll click open and it unpacks it and
now it appears here in active projects
you can think of this active projects
list sort of like recent projects
everything you open will stay there
essentially until you close it now I'm
going to minimize traction and show you
what happened with the files you'll see
here's the projects folder and now here
is a two bits this is the name of the
actual project and within this we've got
some other files which I'll talk about
later and then the archive we've now
completed that so we could actually
remove that from our system if we want I
just deleted it now another way to do
this is to just double click directly on
these files within your filesystem so
I'll just do that here now the same
thing happens it's actually asking me to
choose a folder where to put this so I'm
going to navigate to my music folder
traction projects and we'll put this one
there as well and delete it and then
we'll do the same thing with the last
one
[Music]
and delete the archive now back in
traction on the projects tab under
active projects you see all of the demo
projects that we just opened if we click
on any of these over on the right you'll
see all of the media that makes up that
project and you'll also see in edit and
edit is essentially an arrangement of
the song so you can kind of think of it
it is the song if we double click on
that it will actually open the song so
that we can do all of our recording and
editing I'll just give you an example
we'll just pick this one here I'll
double click it and here you can see
we've got all of the waveforms clips and
everything about traction that we're
going to be covering in the later videos
now one thing is if your audio is set up
at this point we should be able to play
these projects by just hitting play you
can hear it a little bit I'll just put
the cursor here and click so now we've
got a strategy for organizing our files
we've got our demo songs installed now
it's time to take a closer look at
traction we'll do that starting in the
next video thanks for watching