Apple Soundtrack Pro - Manual (Page 72)

72 Chapter 3 Getting Started With Soundtrack Pro
Using Snap
When you move and resize clips in the Timeline, or select part of an audio file in the
Waveform Editor, you usually want them to start and end at a specific point in time. To
synchronize clips with a video, you may want to position them in line with a specific
frame. In a music-based project, you may want to align clips with measures and beats.
Soundtrack Pro includes a snap feature that causes clips, the playhead, and other items
in the Timeline and Waveform Editor to “snap” to the nearest Snap To position.
Snap applies to the following operations:
 Dragging audio clips to the Timeline
 Moving audio clips
 Resizing audio clips
 Setting the playhead
 Setting the playback region
 Inserting markers
 Moving markers
 Selecting Timeslices
 Adding envelope points
 Moving envelope points
 Moving crossfade edges
You can use snap to ensure that audio clips are synchronized to a measure or beat, that
they begin playing back at a precise point in time, and that they are precisely aligned
with other clips in the Timeline.
When you turn on snap, the item you are moving snaps to the nearest Snap To position
in the Timeline. The available Snap To values depend on the time format of the project.
For projects set to Time-based format, the available Snap To values are:
 Ruler ticks
 Seconds
 Frames
 Clips on Adjacent Tracks
 Markers