Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 New Features User Manual

New Features in Soundtrack Pro 2

This is an overview of the new features in Soundtrack Pro 2. For more information on
these features and their use, see the

Surround Sound

Soundtrack Pro provides a flexible and elegant toolset for creating and editing audio
projects in 5.1 surround. Soundtrack Pro offers an easy-to-use approach to surround
panning, mixing, and automation, including unparalleled flexibility with surround files
and the ability to easily switch between stereo and surround mixes. Soundtrack Pro
also includes a huge library of surround clips for sound effects and music beds, as well
as advanced surround reverb and dynamics effects such as Space Designer, which
includes new impulse responses for creating accurate representations of actual spaces
in full surround.

Multitrack Editing Enhancements

Soundtrack Pro 2 adds powerful editing improvements, including the following:

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An integrated waveform editor—for editing and processing a clip’s backing file
directly in the File Editor tab and hearing the changes in the multitrack project—
streamlines your audio post-production workflow. You can view and modify a clip’s
audio file in the File Editor tab without losing the context of your multitrack Timeline.
Simply select a clip in the Timeline and it appears in the File Editor tab below. The
playheads in the Timeline and the File Editor tab are synchronized so you can play
the audio file within the context of your whole multitrack project. Any changes you
make to the audio file are updated in the Timeline immediately.

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The Sound Palette and Lift and Stamp tools are timesaving tools for applying work
you have done on one clip to one or more other clips. Use the Lift tool to copy
properties from selected clips and create a processing template in the Sound Palette
that can be applied to other clips. Use the Stamp tool to apply those properties to
the other clips. Match a clip’s sound characteristics using the Match EQ plug-in.

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Use the Fade Selector HUD to quickly apply and adjust fades and crossfades.

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The Multipoint Video HUD provides frame-accurate context when you are positioning
audio clips and making selections in a video-based project. The window intelligently
tracks the video frames and locations of a clip’s start and end points and the
movements of the pointer as you work in the Timeline and the File Editor.

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The Timecode HUD is a resizable floating window that displays the current
project timecode.

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You now have the ability to lock, unlock, enable, disable, and color-label clips and
tracks in the Timeline.

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Soundtrack Pro 2 includes a completely redesigned Timeslice tool for time selections
across the Timeline and within individual clips.

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A new Tracks tab allows for easily viewing, selecting, and grouping tracks, busses,
and submixes.

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Soundtrack Pro 2 offers improved methods for clip selection and moving clips
numerically in the Timeline, as well as spotting clips to the playhead and spotting
clips to the Timeline (using native timecode).

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Numerous other multitrack editing enhancements include Final Cut Pro–style J-K-L
transport controls, spotting clips from various media tabs to the Timeline, new
grouping features, Blade tool improvements, region markers, and a mode for
selecting and moving envelope points with clips.

Conform

The Conform feature in Soundtrack Pro 2 removes one of the biggest hurdles faced by
sound editors, which is dealing with picture changes. In the past, when a picture editor
moved, added, or deleted clips, or changed edit durations, the sound editor had to
manually conform the sound mix (with its volume, pan, and effects settings) to the new
picture edit. This process was time-consuming and it was easy to make mistakes.
Worse, manually conforming the mix distracted a sound editor from the most
important job at hand: completing the mix.

The Soundtrack Pro Conform feature can quickly compare and conform two versions of
the same sequence: the new picture edit (from Final Cut Pro) and the sound mix (from
Soundtrack Pro). In this way, Soundtrack Pro 2 takes the drudgery and potential
mistakes out of the common conforming process.

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