How do I get those fancy Start Screen pictures for my own templates?

[Starship Krupa]

Title says it.

When I'm at the Start Screen and click on "New Project," the stock templates that come with Cakewalk have these lovely hi-res photos of mixing desks and so forth. When I alter them and save them under different names, I get a plain generic icon. I want to assign the purty ones. I know how to add my own pictures for .CWP files so they show up in the recent projects screen, but I want the nice vignetted pictures on my templates, darn it.

How do I work this?

[Walt Talley]

I think I found the solution. It is about saving it as regular cwp file in a specific directory and then renaming it a cwt file.

Create your project. Put your (any) icon in the notes for that project.

Save it as a regular (normal) cwp file in the folder where project templates are kept ( ...\Cakewalk Content\Cakewalk Core\Project Templates\).

Make sure to uncheck the boxes copy audio with all audio with project (so it doesn't create a subfolder).

 

Then go to that project template folder

and change the file extension to .cwt (if prompted re the change,,,click yes)

and Voila! A Project Template with custom icon. 

[Agent Phil]

Sorry to join this party late...

I've found that just dropping the image in the Project Templates folder is not enough.
Once the image is there, you need to load and re-save the Template (overwriting the existing file).
The image then appears in the Start Screen

[Christophe Perus]

Here's how I make it work (and it's simple) :

1. Create a project or an existing template
2. Change everything you want. 
3. In the right panel, click on "Notes" (the one with the picture you pick for your regular projects)
4. Click on File/Save as..
5. In the option of this Dialog box, do the following (in that order)
   1. Save as type : Template
   2. Go to folder : Template Files
   3. File name : type in your template name with a .TPL extension.
   4. Save

Oddly, the TPL extension is switched back to cwt, but the thumbnail you picked is kept.

[Pelle Andersson]

Open/create a Cakewalk template or projec that you want to use.
Go to "Notes" and insert a picture there.
Then save the template/Project using the usual "File/Save as"  BUT!!!
Make sure you remove the ".cwt or .cwp" suffix before saving it to your template/project folder,
or where ever you want to save it. (See 2:nd image)

 

Edited March 16 by Pelle Andersson
Clarification

[Glenn Stanton]

after adding the image, save the file as a CWP (normal), then go to the folder (i have one called "templates") and make a copy of it. then renamed it "mytemplate".cwt (where "mytemplate" is whatever you want to call it - use 00, 01, 02 in front of the template name to make them sort to the top -- e.g. "00 record template" "01 mix template" "02 master template" etc)

so:

1. create or edit the new or existing template.CWP file
2. insert the image into the notes section of a NORMAL project
3. save as CWP
4. copy & paste the CWP (so you can go back and edit it again later without starting over)
5. rename the copied CWP to the template name (usually remove the word Copy) and extension of CWT
6. copy the CWT into the \common\project templates and the \core\project template folder

if you need to revise the template, then follow steps 1-5 and ignore step 2 (you already did)

 

 

Edited March 16 by Glenn Stanton

[sjoens]

On 4/3/2022 at 6:31 AM, Agent Phil said:

Once the image is there, you need to load and re-save the Template (overwriting the existing file).
The image then appears in the Start Screen

The image then becomes embedded into the template file and you can delete the image.

Of course,  this will be a moot point in short order unless you use Sonar Platinum.

Edited March 17 by sjoens