Apple Soundtrack - Manual (Page 83)

Chapter 5 Working with Projects 83
To save a project and its audio files together:
1 Choose File > Save.
2 In the dialog that appears, select the Collect Audio Files checkbox.
3 Navigate to the folder in which you want to save the project and its audio files, then
click Save.
The project file, and a copy of every audio file the project uses, are saved to the
selected location.
4 You can optionally click the New Folder button to create a new folder for the collected
project. It’s a good idea to save each collected project in its own folder.
5 If the project includes a video file, you can optionally select the Collect Video File
checkbox to save the video to the selected location.
If the folder already contains any of the media files, an alert appears, asking if you want
to replace the existing files.
Note: Because video files are typically very large files, saving a copy of the video file
may take several minutes and may require a large amount of disk space.
You can also save a compressed version of the project. When you save a project
compressed, the data used to draw the audio waveforms in the Timeline is not saved.
This reduces the size of the project, but means that the waveforms must be redrawn
each time the project is opened.
To save a project compressed:
m In the Save dialog, select the Save Compressed checkbox.
Adding Audio Files to a Project
Once you’ve located and previewed an audio file you want to add, you drag the file to the
Timeline to add it to the project. When you drag an audio file to the Timeline, Soundtrack
creates an audio clip from the audio file, and adds the clip to the project. An audio clip
does not contain the actual audio data; instead, it contains a reference to the file stored
on disk. Editing an audio clip in the Timeline does not change the source audio file.
Each audio clip has a playback mode. For untagged files and files tagged as non-looping
files, the clip playback mode is non-looping. For files tagged as looping files, the clip
playback mode is looping. If the playback mode of a clip is looping, the clip appears with
notched edges to indicate where the audio file repeats when you resize the clip.