Apple Soundtrack Pro 2 New Features - Manual (Page 2)

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 Use the Fade Selector HUD to quickly apply and adjust fades and crossfades.
 The Multipoint Video HUD provides frame-accurate context when you are positioning
audio clips and making selections in a video-based project. The window intelligently
tracks the video frames and locations of a clip’s start and end points and the
movements of the pointer as you work in the Timeline and the File Editor.
 The Timecode HUD is a resizable floating window that displays the current
project timecode.
 You now have the ability to lock, unlock, enable, disable, and color-label clips and
tracks in the Timeline.
 Soundtrack Pro 2 includes a completely redesigned Timeslice tool for time selections
across the Timeline and within individual clips.
 A new Tracks tab allows for easily viewing, selecting, and grouping tracks, busses,
and submixes.
 Soundtrack Pro 2 offers improved methods for clip selection and moving clips
numerically in the Timeline, as well as spotting clips to the playhead and spotting
clips to the Timeline (using native timecode).
 Numerous other multitrack editing enhancements include Final Cut Pro–style J-K-L
transport controls, spotting clips from various media tabs to the Timeline, new
grouping features, Blade tool improvements, region markers, and a mode for
selecting and moving envelope points with clips.
Conform
The Conform feature in Soundtrack Pro 2 removes one of the biggest hurdles faced by
sound editors, which is dealing with picture changes. In the past, when a picture editor
moved, added, or deleted clips, or changed edit durations, the sound editor had to
manually conform the sound mix (with its volume, pan, and effects settings) to the new
picture edit. This process was time-consuming and it was easy to make mistakes.
Worse, manually conforming the mix distracted a sound editor from the most
important job at hand: completing the mix.
The Soundtrack Pro Conform feature can quickly compare and conform two versions of
the same sequence: the new picture edit (from Final Cut Pro) and the sound mix (from
Soundtrack Pro). In this way, Soundtrack Pro 2 takes the drudgery and potential
mistakes out of the common conforming process.