Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 986)

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Working with Soundtrack Pro
and Logic Pro
You can quickly process Final Cut Pro audio clips or mix your
entire sequence directly in Soundtrack Pro. You can use
Logic Pro to create music scores for your Final Cut Pro projects.
This chapter covers the following:
 Using Soundtrack Pro with Final Cut Pro (p. 201)
 Using Logic Pro with Final Cut Pro (p. 213)
Using Soundtrack Pro with Final Cut Pro
You can use Soundtrack Pro for every aspect of creating audio for a project, from
multitrack recording to advanced audio processing and mixing. For example, you can
send a clip’s media file directly from Final Cut Pro to Soundtrack Pro, modify it, and then
immediately see the changes to your clip back in Final Cut Pro. You can also batch
process audio files using AppleScript scripts created in Soundtrack Pro. However, one of
the most powerful advantages of using Soundtrack Pro is the ability to send entire
sequences to Soundtrack Pro and automatically conform them each time you make
editorial changes to a sequence in Final Cut Pro.
About Soundtrack Pro Audio File Projects
A Soundtrack Pro audio file project allows you to edit and process an audio media file
nondestructively, which means you can always alter or remove all of the actions you
applied and even get back to the original state of the audio. A Soundtrack Pro audio
file project is stored in a special Mac OS X format called a package (or bundle). A
Mac OS X package appears to be a single file in the Finder but actually contains a
collection of files, such as the original audio file, render files, and the list of actions
applied to your audio file. To take advantage of nondestructive editing, you can create
a Soundtrack Pro audio file project by either saving one from Soundtrack Pro or
sending a clip or clips from Final Cut Pro to a Soundtrack Pro audio file project.