Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 - Manual (Page 156)

156 Chapter 5 Working in the Timeline
Snapping Clips to Clips on Adjacent Tracks
If snapping is turned on, you can snap a clip to the edges of a clip in an adjacent track
(the track either directly above or directly below the track containing the clip). This is
especially useful when the start and end points of clips do not fall on the current
Snap To value.
To snap a clip to adjacent clips:
m Choose View > Snap To > Adjacent Tracks.
Resizing Audio Clips
You control the duration of an audio clip (the amount of time the clip plays back) by
resizing the clip. When you add a clip to the Timeline, the clip has the same duration as
the source audio file. You can shorten clips to play back only a part of the source file.
When you lengthen a clip with looping playback mode, it repeats the source file
multiple times.
To resize an audio clip:
1 Place the pointer at either the left or right edge of the audio clip.
The pointer changes to a Clip Resize pointer.
2 Click the edge of the clip and drag left or right to resize it.
When you lengthen a regular, nonlooping clip beyond its original length,
Soundtrack Pro adds blank space at the end of the clip.
When you lengthen a clip with looping playback mode, the notches at the top and
bottom of the clip indicate the end of each repetition of the source audio file.
A blank space appears
when a nonlooping clip
is lengthened beyond its
original length.
Notches indicate the
points where a looping
clip repeats.
Drag the clip to the left
or right to resize it.