Apple Soundtrack Pro 3 - Manual (Page 11)

Most experienced film and television producers know that “audio is more than half the
picture.” The art and techniques of sound recording, dialogue editing, sound effect
recording and placement, mixing, and sound design play a substantial role in how
audiences perceive the (visual) quality of a film or video. Soundtrack Pro is designed to
serve the art of motion picture sound post-production. Like the other applications in
Final Cut Studio, Soundtrack Pro was created for the film and video industry. Soundtrack Pro
gives you many specialized tools and powerful features that you can use to create
high-quality audio.
Most audio applications focus on multitrack editing or waveform editing, but not both.
Furthermore, most waveform editing applications handle media destructively—making
permanent changes to your media files. Soundtrack Pro provides the best of both worlds:
nondestructive waveform editing while working in a multitrack project.
This preface covers the following:
• About Soundtrack Pro (p. 11)
• About the Soundtrack Pro Documentation (p. 12)
• Additional Resources (p. 12)
About Soundtrack Pro
Soundtrack Pro provides film and video professionals streamlined workflows for editing
everything from individual audio files to large multitrack sound projects, including
synchronizing audio and video, editing sound in place, working with automatic dialogue
replacement (ADR), analyzing and fixing common audio problems like clicks and pops,
and creating stereo and surround sound design. Add interoperability with the other
applications in Final Cut Studio to this list of features, and you have a professional-quality
audio application designed to meet the needs of the most discerning audio editors and
mixers.
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