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The two ways of sending individual clips or groups of clips to Soundtrack Pro are
summarized below. For more information, see the Soundtrack Pro documentation. All of
these operations can be applied nondestructively, so if you’re unsatisfied with your results
later, you can easily change your adjustments or remove them entirely.
• Send To Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project: You can select one or more audio clips in
Final Cut Pro and use the Send To Soundtrack Pro Audio File Project command to create
a series of separate Soundtrack Pro audio projects, one for each item that was selected.
When you send audio to Soundtrack Pro, you have the option of sending all source
media for each selected item, or sending only the portion of audio that appears in the
sequence, with handles. The original audio items are automatically connected to the
Soundtrack Pro audio files, and any changes you make in Soundtrack Pro appear in
your Final Cut Pro sequence.
For example, after inserting a new clip into an edited documentary sequence, you may
discover that its audio has an annoying air conditioner hum that doesn’t match the
audio of the other clips in the sequence. You can select the audio from that clip, send
it to Soundtrack Pro, and use the noise-reduction tools to minimize the hum. After
saving your fix and returning to Final Cut Pro, the audio item is automatically updated
with the fixed audio, and you can continue working.
Incidentally, converting individual audio clips to Soundtrack Pro audio files doesn’t
prevent you from later sending all of your sequence’s audio to Soundtrack Pro as a
multitrack project when the time comes to do your final mix, as described in “Final
Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing.” In fact, all the operations applied to individual files
reappear in the multitrack Soundtrack Pro project that’s created later, and you’ll still
have the ability to modify or turn off earlier corrections if you need to.
For more information, search for “sending clips to Soundtrack Pro” in Final Cut Pro Help.
• Send To Soundtrack Pro Script: You can also save a series of actions in the File Editor
project view as an AppleScript droplet, which can be used from within Final Cut Pro
using the Send To Soundtrack Pro Script submenu. All Soundtrack Pro scripts that are
saved in the default location (/Users/username/Library/Scripts/Soundtrack Pro Scripts/)
appear in this submenu.
For example, if you have a series of voiceover clips that were all recorded during the
same session, and you apply a particular set of de-essing, compression, and equalization
operations to improve the voiceover recording, you can use the Save as AppleScript
command from within Soundtrack Pro to turn your operations into a script, which will
become available from within Final Cut Pro. Going back to your sequence, you can
select the other voiceover clips and then choose your script from the Send To
Soundtrack Pro Script submenu to process them in the same way.
For more information, search for “scripting actions” in Soundtrack Pro Help.
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