Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 - Manual (Page 12)

12 Preface An Introduction to Soundtrack Pro
Multitrack projects look and function similarly to Final Cut Pro projects. You arrange a
multitrack project’s audio clips on the tracks in the Timeline. Multitrack projects contain
the features you expect from a high-performance and professional-quality audio editor,
including features to synchronize audio and video, work with ADR and multitake
editing, and automate volume, pan, and other changes over time using envelopes. You
can record over multiple channels to the Timeline or the File Editor or to multiple tracks
in the Timeline.
Most audio applications focus on multitrack editing or waveform editing, but not both.
Furthermore, most waveform editing applications handle media destructively—making
permanent changes to your media files. Soundtrack Pro provides the best of both
worlds: nondestructive waveform editing while working in a multitrack project.
You can edit audio clips in a variety of ways in the Timeline. You can select, cut, copy,
and paste clips; move, resize, transpose, split, and join them; and edit them in other
ways. You can also apply any actions to and process menu operations for any clip
directly in the Timeline.
You can organize your multitrack project for the final mix by creating busses and
submixes, adding realtime effects and actions, and adding surround panning. When
you’re ready to mix, you can mix in the Timeline or in the Soundtrack Pro Mixer. The
Mixer models a traditional hardware mixing board and includes a channel strip for each
track, bus, and submix in the project.
Soundtrack Pro includes a large library of stereo and surround sound effects and music
beds that you can use for Foley effects, background ambience, sound effects, and
music transitions in your audio and multitrack projects. Soundtrack Pro also includes a
generous selection of professional-quality effects plug-ins, like Space Designer and
Channel EQ that you can add to tracks, busses, and submixes.
You have numerous options for exporting your project. You can export your mix (or
selected tracks, busses, or submixes) in a variety of audio file types including WAVE,
AIFF, MP3, AAC, Dolby Digital Professional, and as a QuickTime movie. You can export
your mix with Compressor, Apple’s high-performance encoding application. You can
also pick from a variety of post-export actions that automatically open the mix in a
Final Cut Pro sequence, or export it to Motion, Logic, or Waveburner.