VERY IMPORTANT: Make decisions BEFORE you start a Soundtrack Pro 2 project, so start with your Project Tab.

NOTE: You cannot record using MIDI in Soundtrack Pro 2. Use GarageBand instead.

Command-Shift-? (command-shift-question mark) opens your help manual.

Command-, (command-comma) opens your preferences.

Interface:

• F1 returns you to standard set-up (the program blanks out for a second).
• If you pull a Tab Panel out to make a separate pane and want to put it back (or in with another group in another pane) – click and hold the tab name (not the window bar with the name) and drag it until you see an outline around the other tab group and then un-click for it to dock into them.

Preferences: set overall preferences if you do not determine them per project.

• Note: Changing overall preferences does NOT change any preferences in current projects – only in any new projects you start after setting them. To change a current project you must go to the Project Tab while your project is open.

In General:

• Set your mouse scrollwheel to zoom at playhead on your selected track (with Shift it scrolls back and forth without zooming) or scroll window content up and down (again, with Shift it scrolls back and forth without zooming).

In Project:

• Overlap Mode set to Truncate cuts off the part of the audio of a clip that has another clip put over it on the same track.
• Overlap Mode set to Crossfade creates the crossfade you have set between the two clips.

In Recording:

• If you are using a mixer and recording several instruments at once, you may need to apply Latency Compensation so that everyone can hear each other and start at the same time (after the sound has passed through the mixer/computer and back out to each musician’s headphones).

Project Tab:

• Turn Collect Imported Media ON if your media is scattered on different volumes and/or you expect to move the project to other computers.

Create Media:

• Checking In Edited Media (from Preferences) will put your project files in a default location that you have specified in Preferences.
• Checking In Media folder with project will put your project files in a default location that you have specified in Preferences. (If you haven’t made any preferences of your own, Soundtrack Pro puts it in /Users/username /Documents/Soundtrack Pro Documents/Edited Media/ Project Name/.)

Metadata:

• Fill in as much in as you want.

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Option-Command-D toggles your dock (in any application)

The upper right corner has buttons to toggle pane visibility – or use:
– Control-A (left panes)
– Control-S (lower pane)
– Control-D (right panes)

Play-Stop – Spacebar
Go to beginning – Return / Enter / Home
Go to end – End
Go to beginning and play – Shift-Return / Shift-Enter
Move one frame at a time – Option-Right or Left Arrow
Move one measure at a time – Left and Right Arrows
Move clip to clip – Up and Down Arrows
Move track to track – Control-Up and Down Arrows
Zoom In and Out – Command Plus and Minus – or – Command and Mouse Wheel
Cursor – A
Snapping – N
Delete Cycle Regions – Option-X
J-K-L work the same as Final Cut Pro
Fit Timeline to Window – Shift-Z

Slow Motion:

• Slow motion forward – press and hold K and L at the same time
• Slow motion reverse – press and hold J and K at the same time

Remember: When seeking Control Options, right-click over anything and it will open a menu with more control choices.

Track Info:

• Triangle to left of track name opens your Volume and Pan fine-tuning
• R button arms it for recording
• S button solos the track for sound
• M button mutes the track
• Volume Slider affects all the clips on the track
• Panning Slider affects all the clips on the track
• Dot with Arrow above it is the Bypasse Effects button
• Submix is your output channel

Right-Click Track Header to also:

• Insert / Remove / Lock tracks
• Change Track Color
• Lock
• Mute / Solo
• Show Envelopes
• Show / Bypass Effects
• Panners

Right-Click (Control-Click) Individual Clips to also:

• Change Track Color
• Lock / Disable
• Delete / Duplicate

Moving Clips:

• Up one track:
Command-Option-Up Arrow
• Down one track:
Command-Option-Down Arrow
• One video frame to the left:
Command-Option-Left Arrow
• One video frame to the right:
Command-Option-Right Arrow
• One gridline to the left:
Command-Left Arrow
• One gridline to the right:
Command-Right Arrow
• One edit point to the left:
Command-Up Arrow
• One edit point to the right:
Command-Down Arrow

Any questions?

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