Apple Soundtrack - Manual (Page 34)

34 Chapter 3 The Soundtrack Interface
Timeline
The Timeline gives you a visual representation of a project, showing the position of
clips, the playhead, and other items in time. The Timeline is organized into three groups
of horizontal rows called tracks, busses, and outputs. You can add and arrange audio
clips in tracks, use busses to create submixes, and send audio to physical output
channels using outputs. You can control the sound of each track, bus, and output using
the controls in its header.
 Timeline editing tools: Select items using the Selection (arrow) tool, or split audio
clips using the Split (razor) tool.
 Automation Mode pop-up menu: Choose the mode for recording automation using
the onscreen controls.
 Project controls: Set the project’s time signature, tempo, key, sample rate, time
format, and other properties using these controls.
 Show pop-up menu: Choose whether the video track, audio tracks, busses, outputs,
and master envelopes are visible in the Timeline.
 Global Timeline view: Shows a miniature view of the entire Timeline and the playhead
position, and lets you move quickly to different parts of a project.
Scroll bar
Audio tracks
Project
controls
Track area
Level meters
Timeline editing tools
Time display
Global Timeline view
Time ruler
Timeline controls
Automation Mode
pop-up menu