On Wednesday 09 October 2013 09:15:25 pm Stan Fotinos wrote: > say 2 or 3 or 4 etc sound > files be imported into one cut?
Are we confusing what's a cut and what's a cart ? Historically, "cart" is an abbreviation for tape cartridge. Carts typically contained between 40 seconds and 13 minutes of tape. Once chose the cart to use based on how long the program segment to be placed onto that cart. A single three minute song went on a 4 minute cart. A 30 second spot went on a 40 second cart. One could stack two 30's on a 70 second cart, or more on a longer cart. One of those 30's would be a "cut." ( not literally, but by historical legacy usage of the term ) A "cut" is a small segment of some sound recording. A cut pre-dates a cart. A cut was literally a portion of the material on a reel to reel tape, which was literally cut using razor blades. A cut could be as small as a single word, or as long as a whole song. Cuts were then spliced together to make up a program segment. Through historical legacy usage of the terms, a cart is a movable, schedulable, program segment. A cut is not. A cart can contain several cuts, but only the cart is movable. All of the cuts within that cart absolutely must remain in that cart in the order that they were recorded, or spliced. In the context of a computer based automation system, a cart remains a container which can contain several cuts. A cut remains a small portion of a sound file, up to an entire single sound file. As such, your question regarding putting several sound files into a single cut is contradictory. Each of those files separately could be a cut, but putting more than one into any container would properly be a cart. In order to not confuse the traditional professional usage of the terms, I would vote absolutely NO! It should not be possible to place more than one complete sound file into a single cut under any circumstances, so that the term cut still means what it means. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com You know it's going to be a bad day when you want to put on the clothes you wore home from the party and there aren't any. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
