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Table Of Contents
- Soundtrack Pro 2 Getting Started
- Contents
- Welcome to SoundtrackPro
- Starting Your Project andAssembling Media
- Assembling Your MultitrackProject
- Working with Multitrack Projects
- Playing and Saving a Multitrack Project
- Creating a SoundtrackPro Multitrack Project fromaFinalCutPro Sequence
- Adding Clips to the Timeline
- Editing Clips in the Timeline
- Adding Markers to the Timeline
- Creating a Fade in an Audio Clip
- Adding a Crossfade Between Two Clips
- Adding Tracks, Busses, and Submixes to a Multitrack Project
- Working with Stereo and Surround Track Panners
- Routing Your Multitrack Project
- Adding Effects to Your Multitrack Project
- Automating Track, Bus, Submix, and Master Bus Parameters with Envelope Points
- Working with Individual AudioFiles
- Solving Audio Problems
- Mixing Stereo andSurroundProjects
- Exporting Your Multitrack Project
- What’s Next?
- An Introduction to the SoundtrackPro Interface
Chapter 1 Starting Your Project and Assembling Media 13
By default, any file you select will play automatically. To turn preview selection off,
deselect the “Preview on selection” button. Then you can preview a selected file
manually by clicking the Play button.
When you’ve located the media you’ll use in your project, you can store it in the
Favorites tab. The Favorites tab is a handy container in which you can put references to
clips and files.
The Bin tab is also useful for locating audio files. By default, the Bin shows the media
files associated with each open project.
Searching for Files
You can search for audio files using the metadata categories that are tracked by
Soundtrack Pro.
To search for files using the Search tab:
1 In the Search tab, choose the type of metadata to search for from the Keywords
pop-up menu. (For example, you can choose All to see every keyword in your file’s
metadata, or you can search with categories like Instruments, Genres, and so on.)
You can change the layout of the Search tab using the Column View and Button View
buttons at the left of the Keywords pop-up menu.
You can change the
layout of the Search tab
using the Column View
and Button View buttons.
Narrow your metadata
search using the
Keywords pop-up menu.