Add a session from a device
When you copy media (audio or video) files into SayMore from a recording device, SD card, flash drive, or other device, each file becomes a new session in the open project.
Make the device available to your computer (connect it with wires, insert the SD card or flash drive, and so on).
Click the
Sessions tab.Do one of the following:
On the Session menu, click New From Device.
Click the New From Device button which is near the bottom of the Sessions (left) pane.
The New Sessions from Device dialog box appears.
If SayMore cannot access
the folder where files were located the last time you used this feature,
a warning (
) message appears.
In this case, or to find files that are
stored in a different location, do the following:
Click the Find Files on Recorder/Card link.
The Browse for Folder dialog box opens, so you can browse for the folder that has the files you want.
Click the desired folder, and then click OK.
If you see an error message, see Note below.
In the Incoming Files pane (New Sessions from Device dialog box), select (
) the file or
files that represents the source recording of a session.To select (
) or clear (
)
all the files at
the same time, select or clear the check box that is in
the column header.
If necessary, do any of the following:
Play the media file (with the player that is in the dialog box) to verify that this is the desired file.
Click a row to highlight the file. Then, click Open, and then click Show in File Explorer, or Open in Program associated with this File.
The Create <number of> Sessions button displays the number of selected (
)
files.When all the files you want are selected, click Create <number of> Sessions.
The Creating Sessions progress box appears.
When the process is finished, click OK.
Each selected file is added to the open project as a new session. When there are selected files with the same file name, but different file name extensions, those files are all added to the same new session. Typically, some metadata which is specific to the audio or video file is automatically added to SayMore when you create a new session from a device (or extract the audio from a video file).
Do any of the following:
Add files to the new sessions.
Note
Media player file name has not been specified error message appears if a default Media Player has not been specified for the file extension type you are trying to bring into SayMore.
Click OK and continue with your work in SayMore.
You will get this message each time SayMore attempts to display/play the media file until you do the following: right-click on the media file and then click Show in File Explorer. In Windows File Explorer, right-click on the media file, hover over Open with, then left-click Choose default program. Select one of the options. Select the check box: Always use the selected program to open this kind of file. Click OK.
You will want to do this for each different media file extension (.mpg, .avi, and so on).
The source device is displayed to the right of the File Files on Recorder/Card link.
See Also: How SayMore uses file names.