Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 - Manual (Page 65)

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Setting Up Soundtrack Pro
This chapter describes two kinds of projects you can create
in Soundtrack Pro and how to work with windows, use
layouts, play projects, and set Soundtrack Pro preferences.
Two Kinds of Projects
Soundtrack Pro has two native project file formats to support state-of-the-art multitrack
audio editing and powerful nondestructive audio waveform editing.
Multitrack Projects
Multitrack projects contain multiple audio tracks in the Timeline. As in a Final Cut Pro
project, importing a media file creates a clip in Soundtrack Pro that then refers to the
original media file. You can arrange audio clips within tracks and synchronize them to a
single video clip in the video track.
You can mix a multitrack project using track controls for volume, pan, mute, solo,
effects, and effect parameters. These controls are available both in the Timeline and in
channel strips in the Mixer. You can create additional audio busses for effect sends. You
can group audio track outputs together with submixes. Tracks, busses, and submixes
can be exported to individual audio files, or a mixdown of all the tracks can be
exported to a stereo or multichannel audio file. These exported files can then be
imported into Final Cut Pro.
Project File extension Description
Multitrack project .stmp Similar to a Final Cut Pro project, this file
contains multiple tracks with clips that refer to
media files elsewhere on your disk.
Audio file project .stap Allows nondestructive editing of audio files.