![]() Once you’ve entered a Project name and decided where to store the Project document you’re ready to start working on the Project itself. Getting Started: Creating Your First Projectĥ. That’s entirely up to you, but you may prefer to keep your Projects on your Desktop or in your Documents folder. Just below the Project field you can decide where to save your Project. You’ll want to name your Project, so click in the Project field at the top of the dialog and type in something descriptive, such as the name of the Audiobook you’re going to build. The Create Project dialog window will appear. Click on the first option, Create a New Project. Assuming you’ve registered your copy, the Audiobook Builder window will greet you with three choices:Ģ. When you’re ready to build just press the Build button toward the bottom of the window.Ĭreating Your First Project Now we’re ready to create your first Audiobook Builder Project. You also have an opportunity to customize several settings that affect how your Audiobook will be built by pressing the Build Options button just under the Cover Art area. To reveal the Inspector just click on the Show Details button at the bottom of the window.įinish The Finish section includes a summary of your final Audiobook file(s), including Title, Author, Genre, Cover Art, Length, number of Chapters and number of Parts. The Chapters section includes the Inspector, an area at the bottom of the window that displays information about the Chapters and Files you have selected. Remember, as you add items to your Project they are represented as Files inside Chapters. You’ll find buttons to add audio files, add the iTunes selection and import CDs, as well as the Join, Split and Remove buttons. All four items will be included in the Project’s output.Ĭhapters The Chapters section of each Project is where most of the action is. The three sections are described below.Ĭover The Cover section of each Project allows you to specify the Title, Author and Genre of your audiobook, and also provides a drag and drop area for your audiobook’s Cover Art. You will find buttons for switching between these sections at the bottom of the Project window. This makes working on a Project over several Audiobook Builder sessions a lot easier and also helps keep things together in case the original audio data is moved around on your hard drive or becomes unavailable.Īudiobook Builder separates the work in each Project into three phases: Cover, Chapters and Finish, and each phase has its own section of the Project window. Remember, Files are imported directly into the Project document on your hard drive. Chapters have a Name and can also be assigned artwork. Each Chapter will emerge in Audiobook Builder’s output as a chapter stop on your iPod, in iTunes and in other QuickTime applications. Files may be dragged between Chapters, Files can be joined into new Chapters, Chapters can be dragged around to rearrange things, if necessary, and more. Once you get the results you want from a particular Project you can remove it by dragging it to your Trash.Ĭhapters and Files As you add audio data to your Projects you’ll find each added item represented as a File enclosed in a Chapter. The Pass through hint allows you to tell Audiobook Builder to try to process your audio without re-encoding, if possible. There are three easy presets but if you’re up to it you can tweak the Data Rate, Channels, Sample Rate and Pass through hint before continuing to the actual process of building your audio. ![]() Just before you build your Projects you will get an opportunity to specify the audio characteristics for the final output. It also makes it painless to move Projects from one Mac to another - “just in case” - because you don’t have to worry about where the original audio data is. This allows you to interrupt your Audiobook Builder session and return to it when you get a chance. Audiobook Builder stores a copy of each audio file you add to the Project within the Project document itself. ![]() Projects Your first step in any project with Audiobook Builder is to create an Audiobook Builder Project document, where you will gather, organize and tweak your audio data before Audiobook Builder turns it into iPod-friendly audiobook tracks. The Basics Here’s an overview of the basic elements you’ll interact with in Audiobook Builder: Are you ready to learn a thing or two about Audiobook Builder? Then head to the next page, where we’ll go over a few pointers before we start your first Project! It’s a fairly quick and easy - if not painless - process, and you’ll have the hang of it in no time, but why not take a moment to see a Project move from start to finish? We’ll cover the basics of creating your first Project, organizing your audiobook data and building the final product. ![]() Getting Started Introduction Now that you’ve got Audiobook Builder you’re just moments away from moving your audiobook CDs to your iPod. ![]()
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