Tracking for Audio CD?

[armbar]

i have two questions i hope someone can help me, i looked around the forum and couldnt find the answer so please help, i hope it isnt too dumb of a question.
1. Every time i record something on cooledit and then decide to burn it on cd i track it. but the method i use to track it is that i select a section of the wave then save selection. when i finished doing that several times for the whole file. i then use nero burner to burn the individual mp3 tracks i saved to a cd. there must be a quicker and easier way to track a file without physical spliting it and saving it. does any1 know how to do that so i can burn one file onto cd and still have several tracks?

2. i recorded a lecture and i think i put the mic sensetivity high and i was close to the speaker. so every time he talks there is a breaking/shatter sound to his voice. is there a way i can remove that, (i tried hiss reduction, anything else)?

 

[ozpeter]

Assuming that your material is fully prepared - that you have got a single file displayed in edit view, possibly as a result of a mixdown from the multitrack - you can proceed as follows.

Right click on the time scale at the bottom of the waveform.
Choose 'Display Time Format > Compact Disc 75fps'.
Right click on the time scale again
Choose 'Snapping > Snap to frames (always)'.

Those steps should help ensure click-free transitions from one track to another.

Go to the beginning of the file and click there, so that the cursor is at 00:00:00:00 - press F8, and that will drop a cue mark there representing the start of track one on the CD. Now place the cursor at the point in the file that you want to set as the beginning of the second CD track. Press F8 to place a cue mark there. Proceed through the file in a similar fashion until the start of every track has been marked. Then finally place a cue mark at the end of the last track, normally the end of your displayed file.

It might be a good idea to save the file now, with the cue marks in it.

Now select 'View > Show Cue List'.
In normal Windows fashion highlight (select) all the cues listed there.
Press the Merge button that is part of the cue list window.
Your cues have now been changed into ranges , which represent the start of track one to the end of track one, the start of track two to the end of track two, and so on.

Now highlight all the ranges, and press the 'Batch' button.
In the dialog that appears, click on the 'Save to files' button so that the lower part of the dialog is enabled.
Enter something relevant in the 'Filename prefix' box - like "Track" or "Song" or whatever - this will ultimately create files called "Track1, Track2" etc or "Song1, Song2...."
Set Seq. Start to "1".
Specify the Destination Folder in normal Windows fashion.
Set the Output Format to mp3 or PCM, depending on the type of CD you are creating.
Click on "OK"

This will generate in the directory you specified the files you will then burn to CD using Nero or whatever.

In Nero, the audio CD wizard should guide you through the process. Each file will become a separate track with a separate track number.

If you have allowed space between the tracks when you laid them out in the Edit view in the first place, you probably don't want Nero to add 2 seconds between each track. The same applies if it is continuous material like a live concert - you don't want silence between the tracks. So in the Nero list of tracks, highlight all but the first track, right click and select Properties, then set 'Pause' to zero.

In the burn dialog, make sure that you set the Write Method to 'disc at once'.

As for your distorted lecture, there's probably not much you can done. You could try the Clip Restoration tool, but it's really intended for slight accidents rather than total disasters.

 

[armbar]

Thanx, well appreciated