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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 3 Working with Individual Audio Files 55
Time Stretching an Audio File
Time stretching a section of an audio file alters its length. Time stretching is particularly
useful when editing dialogue because you can alter the timing of the dialogue without
affecting its pitch.
To time stretch a file:
1 View the file in the File Editor project view.
2 Select the Audio Stretching tool.
The pointer becomes a stretcher.
3 Select the portion of the file that you want to stretch or contract.
4 Position the stretcher over the right edge of the selection. When the stretcher pointer
appears, stretch the file farther to the right to lengthen the audio or to the left to speed
up the audio.
Note: If you don’t want to overwrite nearby audio files, hold down the Option key
while stretching or contracting the file. This lengthens or shortens the file instead of
overwriting any nearby files.
When you release the mouse button, the File Editor updates the waveform to show the
new, stretched audio.