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You can take several approaches to working with your Final Cut Pro project’s audio in
Soundtrack Pro; the method you choose depends on your situation:
 Do you need to work on a single clip? Final Cut Pro includes several methods you can
use to open a clip in the Soundtrack Pro Waveform Editor, where you can analyze and
process the audio using a variety of powerful tools.
 Do you need to work on audio from multiple tracks or add additional content such as
sound effects or voiceover? You can open one clip, a group of Final Cut Pro clips, or an
entire sequence in the Soundtrack Pro Timeline, where you can add additional tracks
of sound effects, Foley, voiceover, and music, as well as analyze and process the
audio clips from Final Cut Pro. You can then perform a final mix with Soundtrack Pro.
 Do you need to apply the same process to multiple audio files? You can send one or
more Final Cut Pro audio clips to a Soundtrack Pro script that can perform a variety of
actions on the audio, such as adding reverb or removing pops and clicks.
Working With a Single Clip From Final Cut Pro
There are three common methods you can use to open a clip in the Soundtrack Pro
Waveform Editor: sending it to the editor, opening it in the editor, and sending it to a
Soundtrack Pro script.
 If you send the clip to the Soundtrack Pro Waveform Editor, a Soundtrack Pro project is
created that allows you to nondestructively make changes to the audio in the
Waveform Editor.
 If you open the file in the Waveform Editor, any changes you make are applied
destructively to the audio file when you save it.
 If you send the clip to a Soundtrack Pro script, the clip opens in the Waveform Editor,
the actions in the script are performed, the clip is saved with the changes, and the
Waveform Editor moves to the background so you can continue working in
Final Cut Pro. This process is nondestructive when the clips are Soundtrack Pro
projects, and destructive when the clips are plain audio files.
Sending a Clip From Final Cut Pro to the Soundtrack Pro
Waveform Editor
Sending an audio clip from Final Cut Pro to the Soundtrack Pro Waveform Editor creates
a Soundtrack Pro audio file project, with the file extension “.stap”, that contains any
changes you make to the audio. The original audio clip is not affected by what you do
in the Waveform Editor.
Important: This requires Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro to be installed on the
same computer.