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Hello all , I'd like to know if I can set up cue points or points throughout my recorded mix (in virtual dj) so when I forward my mix it would go to another part of the mix WITHOUT skipping to the next song that is not my mix. In other words how could I create chapters throughout my recorded mix?

Thanks,
Hittz
 
Posted Thu 14 Feb 08 @ 1:09 am
what version do you have or working with?
 
I currently have version 5
 
 
I have read the users manual over time back and forth trying to gain understanding to no avail.

This is what Im trying to achieve:

Lets say I burn say, 20 mp3's onto disc using Nero (make a mp3 cd) now after its burned and although these are individual tracks, I can seek with my stand alone cd/dvd player to the next track. When recording a mix in Virtual dj I will have one continuous mix (group of songs) so there would be no gaps. so Is it possible to create chapter points (possibly called cue points) that will enable me to seek to different areas of my mix? (if my recorded mix is 120minutes long and I burned it to cd as an mp3 must I seek all the way through to find a particular part in the song, (while listening to it). ex. I start to listen to my mix on cd, I want to jump as close as possible to the 45 minute mark, must I hold the seek or fast forward button down, which could take a long time. Although this is not a video I am refering to it equates to having NO chapters in a video and having to fast forward all the way through the video to gfet to a certain point. Would I have to create these chapters in an audio editing program, ex. Adobe audition, or Audacity?

Thanks much
 
If you Enable Max Load option to Always you can see the entire track on the waveform (but you will need a lot of ram memory for this because track is extracted to wav format in ram memory). Just click on the waveform and you will be instantly on any position you want. Although, if your mix has more tracks you can load only one on the deck.
 
120 minutes is too long! U need to have more ram n u need to set up the cue patiently as DJ ALF said. I would say yes u can do chapters in ur mix then individually u could set up the cue point on each track. N create tracks names so u will knoe which is which;)

But i feel that doing this defeat the purpose. U should only do this if u want to do chapter n burn them to CDs for ur mixtapes.

Btw u have already done ur mixes, y did u wanna to recreate it again?? by mixing new tracks on top???
 
Hittz wrote :
how could I create chapters throughout my recorded mix?



U could create chapter by selecting in the record file config and check split in multiple and auto split on crossfade.

It would create new chapter by movin the crossfader from deck a to deck b...and vice versa.

But there is a disadvantage and as if u were crossfade to point a to point b then point a to point b in fast manner, it would/could already create 4 chapters.

hopes that help.
 
I have checked the option to split tracks on fade but I dont want the tracks split. Im trying to only mARK a particular point through out the whole mix every say five minutes so when I fast forward or seek it will stop every five minutes. Im am sorry that I just dont understand what you are saying or trying to explain OR if I burn the many split files to cd as mp3's will they play as ONE file in sync (like they were never split?)

I do appreciate all the help I am getting , I just dont understand what you may be expressing.

Thanks much.
 
I am kinda lost here in what you are trying to accomplish. Let me see if this is what you are trying to achieve:
You want to record a mix, then set cue points at the end of each song or at the end of a few songs so you can later put this mix in the player and have it jump to the cue and play smoothly in vdj?? Is this correct?? If this is correct then why dont you just make a waitlist with these songs and run automix in vdj, or start a song in the waitlist then when you want to change songs just double click on the next song in the waitlist and that will give you a smooth transition to the next song. I dont know why you would want a 120 min song, but please explain a little better.
 
OK Lets say I have a 30 minute mix recorded in virtual dj, in the past I have burned my mixes as mp3 files to cd. Now when played in my car, if I want to go from the beginning to 13 minutes into my mix, I would have to hold the fast forward button until I hear the part I wanted to get to or look at the timing on my cd player and let the button go before it came to the 13 minute mark. This has always been time consuming.

I wanted to know how to create points, on the cd while recording in virtual dj that would enable me to advance my cd by hitting the "next button 1 time taking me to a later time within the total 30 minute mix. Instead of holding down the fast forward button for so long. Without these points if I were to hit the next button I would be taken to another song (NOT MY 30 minute recorded mix) Assuming I have other mp3 track on the cd.

Now, through reading the many different responses to my problem ( which I am much appreciate to the community for) and a little trial and error I may have achieved my task.

This is what I did: In VDJ I clicked on the Burn CD button on the left (using version 5) Then I click Start Recording, I start mixing and blending and prior to making a blend with the fader I click the cut button. This seems to give me the points I am referring to. after a short test of mixing 6 audio files (mp3's) My final project is saved as an image file in the bin/cue format. I then mounted the cue file in my virtual drive and played it in Window Media Player. The recorded track seen playing in WMP but they play smooth as 1 file. I can also click on the next button to play the next blend I made. (I can test it on a cd at the time because Im all out) BUT this seems like exactly what I want to achieve. Now in my car Im looking to be able to click the next button and expect the next blend to be played, instead of holding the fast forward button down for so long. So everytime I want to make a point on my mix I think while recording I should make a cut with the cut button on VDM, correct?
 
spinnaJ wrote :
. I would say yes u can do chapters in ur mix then individually u could set up the cue point on each track. N create tracks names so u will knoe which is which;)

But i feel that doing this defeat the purpose. U should only do this if u want to do chapter n burn them to CDs for ur mixtapes.



Hi sorry if it not cleared enough. I was saying that yes u could create chapters with audio editing software then later u can play them in VDJ n thus create cue point. Example 120 mins mix consist 25 tracks, u create chapter and the time duration for each track will be ard 5 mins. Then from this individual track (The ones with now 5 mins), u could create cue point in it in VDJ. This is better than u want to create for 120 mins.

As i say burn to CD, is that this is usually done when want to create chapter on ur mixtapes.. for easier listening if u want to skip to next track.

Hope i clear on this.

Btw yes do tell us more what are u trying to achieve. It getting confusion here too.

Abt ur trial n error, yes u could use that cut button too.
 
Agree with Spinna here. I would record the mix as u are doing now and in an external program cut it into different sections. I believe you can do this in Nero, but I am not sure as I never tried.
 
Thanks guys I will give it a try also, and post back tomorrow.
 
 
Hittz wrote :
Thanks guys I will give it a try also, and post back tomorrow.

Consider getting a license ;)
 
How would I do that?
 
 
@Hittz

If you have recorded your mix with VDJ and you have one mp3-file which contains all tracks you have mixed then do the following. Just make a Cue-Sheet for this mix with for example this software http://www.dcsoft.com/products/cdrcue/ or do it manually. Then burn this cue-sheet + the mp3 as an audio CD with Nero Burning Rom or CDRWin and there you go..........You will have one seamless Audio-Mix which you can also skip to the tracks you have marked before in the Cue-Sheet.

This also works if you have a wav-file and a Cue-Sheet. What doesn´t work is to burn the mp3 and the cue-sheet as an Data-CD ---> No CD-Player will be able to read the Cue-File with mp3 to skip through it.
 
THANK YOU Pachtyman I understand it much better now. After goggling for days I now know in order for my cues to be recognized by my cd/dvd player my files cannot be in the mp3 format. what did work was recording my mix in virtual dj as a Bin/Cue image (which recorded my file in .cda format) Then burned the Cue file in Nero. This enabled me to accomplish the use of my "Previous" and "Next" buttons on my cd/dvd player to here the previous or the next mixed audio tracks, which I set in VDJ to <split track on cross fade> So when I extend the cross fader to the far end of its travel it would split the tack creating a cue point enabling the use of the Previous and Next buttons on my cd/dvd player to jump to different areas within my mix. Mission accomplished !!!

Thanks to all who helped me in this matter.
 
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