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Contents
Preface 5 Welcome to Soundtrack Pro
5 About Soundtrack Pro
5 About This Book
6 What You’ll Need
Chapter 1 7 Starting Your Project and Assembling Media
8 Opening Soundtrack Pro
9 Setting Up Your Computer’s Audio System
10 Creating a New Multitrack Project
12 Assembling Media in Soundtrack Pro
Chapter 2 17 Assembling Your Multitrack Project
18 Working with Multitrack Projects
19 Playing and Saving a Multitrack Project
22 Creating a Soundtrack Pro Multitrack Project from a Final Cut Pro Sequence
23 Adding Clips to the Timeline
24 Editing Clips in the Timeline
26 Adding Markers to the Timeline
28 Creating a Fade in an Audio Clip
29 Adding a Crossfade Between Two Clips
30 Adding Tracks, Busses, and Submixes to a Multitrack Project
32 Working with Stereo and Surround Track Panners
35 Routing Your Multitrack Project
36 Adding Effects to Your Multitrack Project
39 Automating Track, Bus, Submix, and Master Bus Parameters with Envelope Points
Chapter 3 41 Working with Individual Audio Files
41 Editing Audio Files
42 How Soundtrack Pro Processes Audio Files
42 Where to Edit Audio Files
46 Opening a Logic Pro Audio File in Soundtrack Pro
47 Adding Processes and Effects to a File with Actions
50 Using the File Editor Tools