3 When you have finished mixing your session, you probably want to export it to a sound
4 file to burn to a CD, upload to the web, or whatever. <kbd class="menu">Session > Export > Export to Audio file(s)…</kbd>
5 shows the Export Dialog to do this.
9 You can also export the outputs of multiple tracks & busses all at once via
10 <kbd class="menu">Session > Export > Stem Export…</kbd>.
16 <img src="/images/export-dialog-file-format.png" alt="The Export window">
23 This tab contains controls for the format of the exported audio file.
24 You can enable more than one format here, in which case each will be exported in turn.
25 Ardour is supplied with a list of export formats, including:
29 <li>CD (Red Book)</li>
32 <li>FLAC 24 bit (tagged)</li>
34 <li>Ogg_Vorbis (tagged)</li>
39 You can edit these formats, or create your own, with the <a href="@@export-format-profiles">"Edit Export Format Profile"</a> dialog, which
40 appears when you click the "Edit" or "New" button to the right of the drop-down list of formats.
44 You can also create a 'Preset' consisting of one or more formats. Ardour provides some ready-made presets, too:
50 <li>CD + FLAC (tagged)</li>
51 <li>CD + Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC (tagged)</li>
52 <li>CD + Ogg_Vorbis</li>
53 <li>CD + Ogg_Vorbis (tagged)</li>
57 <li>FLAC (tagged)</li>
58 <li>Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC</li>
59 <li>Ogg_Vorbis + FLAC (tagged)</li>
61 <li>Ogg_Vorbis (tagged)</li>
67 Aside from providing a way to tell Ardour <em>where</em> to put the created file(s),
68 the <dfn>location</dfn> part of the window allows to name the exported files with
69 a lot of choice regarding the naming convention, hence blending into the user's
70 workflow, and providing a clean way to keep the export folders from beeing cluttered
71 with poorly named files.
74 The name of the file(s) can optionnaly be made of:
78 <li>The session or snapshot's name</li>
79 <li>A custom label (i.e., any text)</li>
80 <li>A revision number</li>
81 <li>The name of the timespan (see below)</li>
82 <li>A date (in multiple formats)</li>
83 <li>A time (also in multiple format).</li>
86 <h2>Soundcloud upload</h2>
88 When 'Upload to Soundcloud' is ticked on in any format's tab, a pane containing fields
89 to enter in Soundcloud account details (email and password), and what should happen
90 to the uploaded files will become visible.
94 <img src="/images/soundcloud-upload.png" alt="Exporting to Soundcloud">
96 Exporting to Soundcloud
101 <tr><th>Make files public</th>
102 <td>Choose whether to make uploaded files available to anyone via the Soundcloud web site.</td></tr>
103 <tr><th>Open uploaded files in browser</th>
104 <td>Open each file on soundcloud in your browser after upload.
105 If you don't enable this, you can still see the URLs in the Log window.</td></tr>
106 <tr><th>Make files downloadable</th>
107 <td>Choose whether to allow downloading of files uploaded to Soundcloud.</td></tr>
110 <h2>Analyze exported audio</h2>
113 <img src="/images/export-report-analysis.png" alt="The Export Report/Analysis window">
115 The Export Report/Analysis window
120 Checking <kbd class="option">Analyze Exported Audio</kbd> shows the Export Report/Analysis
121 window. This provides a lot of usefull informations about the exported file:
124 <li>the file name and location</li>
126 <li>its channel count</li>
127 <li>its sample rate</li>
128 <li>its duration and timecode.</li>
131 It also allows to <kbd class="menu">Play</kbd> the file, and the <kbd class="menu">
132 Open Folder</kbd> button gives a quick access to the place where it has been created.
135 The most prominent feature though, are the two generated views of the audio file
136 in time (waveform) and frequency (sonograph) domain, and the loudness
140 <li>the Peak value</li>
141 <li>the True Peak value (to take inter sample peaks into account)</li>
142 <li>the Normalization Gain (if it has been applied)</li>
143 <li>the Integrated Loudness</li>
144 <li>the loudness range</li>
145 <li>a graph of the multiplicity of the peaks at the different loudness levels.</li>
151 <img src="/images/export-dialog-timespan.png" alt="The Time Span tab">
158 This tab allows you to select the range (or ranges) of the timeline to export. By default, "session" is
159 enabled—this will export the whole session from the start marker to the end marker.
165 <img src="/images/export-dialog-channels.png" alt="The Channels tab">
172 Here you can choose which outputs (tracks or busses) should be sent to the exported file.
178 <img src="/images/export-dialog-stem-export.png" alt="Stem export">
185 If you chose 'Stem Export', the 'Channels' tab appears slightly differently:
186 in this case each chosen channel (track or bus) is exported to its own file,
187 instead of all channels being mixed together into a single file. You can
188 choose to export either the region contents or the track output here in this