Apple Soundtrack Pro - Manual (Page 47)

Chapter 3 Getting Started With Soundtrack Pro 47
Setting Up Your Workspace
There are several ways you can set up the Soundtrack Pro workspace to suit your
display size and workflow, whichever type of project you are creating. You can arrange
windows, reorder and detach tabs in the Utility window and the Media and Effects
Manager, and add and reorder buttons in the Toolbar. You can create layouts for
different tasks and switch between them.
Basic Window Controls
You can move, resize, or minimize a project’s windows. Most windows feature tabs,
which give you flexibility in arranging the visual elements of a project.
To move a window:
m Drag the window by its title bar to a new location.
To resize a window, do one of the following:
m Drag the Size control in the lower-right corner of the window until the window is the
desired size.
m Hold the pointer near the edge of a window until it becomes a Resize Window pointer,
then drag the window edge left or right to resize adjacent windows together.
To minimize a window to the Dock:
m Click the minimize button in the window’s title bar.
To close a window:
m Click the window’s close button (or press Command-W with the window active).
Using Tabs
Soundtrack Pro uses tabbed windows so you can quickly access different project views
and controls. You can switch between projects and between different controls in the
Media and Effects Manager and the Utility window. Clicking the tab you want makes it
active and brings it to the front. You can reorder the tabs in a window to easily access
the tabs you use frequently.
To reorder tabs:
m Drag a tab left or right in the window’s tab area.
You can also detach a tab from its docked position in the Utility window or the Media
and Effects Manager, which creates a separate draggable, resizeable window for the
tab. For example, you can drag the Bin tab to a new location so that you can easily
move items from the Browser tab to the Bin tab.