Apple Soundtrack - Manual (Page 48)

48 Chapter 4 Getting Started with Soundtrack
Setting Up Your Workspace
There are several ways you can set up the Soundtrack workspace to suit your display
size and workflow. You can arrange windows, reorder and detach tabs in the Utility
window and the Media and Effects Manager, and add and reorder buttons in the
Toolbar. You can create layouts for different tasks and switch between them.
Basic Window Controls
You can move, resize, or minimize a project’s windows. Most windows feature tabs,
which give you flexibility in arranging the visual elements of a project.
To move a window:
m Drag the window by its title bar to a new location.
To resize a window, do one of the following:
m Drag the Size control in the lower-right corner of the window until the window is the
desired size.
m Hold the pointer near the edge of a window until it becomes a Resize Window pointer,
then drag the window edge left or right to resize adjacent windows together.
To minimize a window to the Dock:
m Click the minimize button in the window’s title bar.
To close a window:
m Click the window’s close button (or press Command-W with the window active).
Using Tabs
Soundtrack uses tabbed windows so you can quickly access different project views and
controls. You can switch between projects and between different controls in the Media
and Effects Manager and the Utility window. Clicking the tab you want makes it active
and brings it to the front. You can reorder the tabs in a window to easily access the tabs
you use frequently.
To reorder tabs:
m Drag a tab left or right in the window’s tab area.
You can also detach a tab from its docked position in the Utility window or the Media
and Effects Manager, which creates a separate draggable, resizeable window for the
tab. For example, you can drag the Bin tab to a new location so that you can easily
move items from the Browser tab to the Bin tab.