From the course: Learning Audacity
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Save your project - Audacity Tutorial
From the course: Learning Audacity
Save your project
- [Instructor] Now that we've seen how to create a new project, we should take a look at how Audacity saves projects. I still have the new project open that I previously created, and I'm just going to hit the record button for a couple seconds here just to create a quick track. And I'll hit stop. All right, so now I can save this project. I'll choose file, save project, and save project. Or I could just press command or control + S. Now I get a warning telling me that choosing save project creates a file that can only be read by Audacity, and that if I want to save my audio as a file that can be read by other programs, to use the export command. But when you're working in Audacity, you really should save your work as a project. Otherwise, you can't save information like the number of tracks you're using, the position of the tracks in the mix, the volume levels and pan information, and so on. I'll choose not to see this…
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