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 Status area: Displays the recording status of the Voice Over tool, along with a
progress bar that indicates the percentage of the recording that has been completed,
based on the defined area of the Timeline. There are five states:
 Ready to Record: Indicates that the Voice Over tool is ready and waiting to
be activated.
 Starting: Appears along with a progressive change in color from yellow to red
during the 5-second countdown that occurs when you first click the Record
button. Audio is actually recorded during the countdown, and the resulting clip
has a 5-second handle at the beginning.
 Recording: Appears once you’ve started recording in the Timeline. While you’re
recording, the status area is red. Fifteen seconds before the end of your recording,
you are cued with a single audible beep. During the last 5 seconds of recording,
the status area displays a countdown from 5 to 0, accompanied by five beeps, to
let you know when the recording time is up.
 Finishing: Appears once playback comes to the end of the defined area of the
Timeline. Recording continues 2 seconds past the end of your specified Out point
to prevent your last word from being cut off.
 Saving: Appears after recording, when your clip is being saved from RAM to the
currently specified scratch disk.
Audio File Area
 Target: This line displays the sequence name and track number where audio
recorded with the Voice Over tool will be placed. As subsequent takes are recorded,
the audio destination track automatically moves down to the next available track.
 Name: This text field displays the name that will be used for the recorded media file on
disk. To change the audio clip name, click in this field, then enter the desired name.
As subsequent takes are recorded, this name is automatically appended with
numbers. For example, the default name of Voice Over changes to Voice Over 1 after
you record your first voiceover clip.
If the name in this field is already in use by another clip on the selected scratch disk,
an appropriate take number is automatically appended to the name. For example,
Narration is changed to Narration 1.