Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1008)

• If you need a complete audio post-production solution for your movie, including sound
editing, sweetening, and mixing: You can send multiple Final Cut Pro clips—or even an
entire sequence—to a Soundtrack Pro multitrack project, where you can complete your
final mix by adding additional tracks of sound effects, voiceover, and music. Both stereo
and surround sound mixing are supported.
About Soundtrack Pro Audio File Projects
A Soundtrack Pro audio file project allows you to edit and process an audio media file
nondestructively, which means you can always alter or remove all of the actions you
applied and even get back to the original state of the audio. A Soundtrack Pro audio file
project is stored in a special Mac OS X format called a package (or bundle). A Mac OS X
package appears to be a single file in the Finder but actually contains a collection of files,
such as the original audio file, render files, and the list of actions applied to your audio
file. To take advantage of nondestructive editing, you can create a Soundtrack Pro audio
file project by either saving one from Soundtrack Pro or sending a clip or clips from
Final Cut Pro to a Soundtrack Pro audio file project.
Sending Individual Audio Clips from Final Cut Pro to
Soundtrack Pro
There are three methods you can use to open a clip in the Soundtrack Pro File Editor:
• Send a clip item or items to Soundtrack Pro as a Soundtrack Pro audio file project: A
Soundtrack Pro audio file project is created for each item. This allows you to
nondestructively make changes to the audio in the Soundtrack Pro File Editor. The
original clips in Final Cut Pro are automatically reconnected to the new Soundtrack Pro
audio file projects. You have the option to copy the entire media file for each clip item,
or you can create trimmed versions with handles.
• Process a clip with a Soundtrack Pro script: The clip opens in the File Editor, the actions
in the script are performed automatically, the clip is saved with the changes, and the
File Editor moves to the background so you can continue working in Final Cut Pro. If
your clip’s media file is a standard audio or video file, you have the option to create a
new Soundtrack Pro audio file project, so as to process the file nondestructively. If you
don’t take advantage of this option, the script processes the source media destructively
(permanently). If your clip’s media file is already a Soundtrack Pro audio file project,
the changes are nondestructive.
• Open a clip’s media file destructively in the Soundtrack Pro File Editor: If you do not use a
Soundtrack Pro audio file project for editing and you save the changes to the file in its
native format, or in any flat audio file format (such as AIFF, WAVE, and so on), any
changes you make to the audio file are destructive (permanent).
1008 Chapter 62 Working with Soundtrack Pro and Logic Pro