Inside Soundtrack Pro covers all aspects of Apple’s brand new audio application. You will learn to build sound effects, foley and score for a fictional movie trailer, and do it all non-destructively!

As both a stand-alone application and as part of Apple’s Final Cut Studio, Soundtrack Pro allows producers, video and film editors, motion graphics artists and DVD authors to work with on multitrack projects and audio file projects (with an actions based waveform editor), to score, sweeten, add sound effects, and find and fix problematic audio.

The training is appropriate for all users (both brand new to sound design as those familiar with other audio applications).

1. Introduction
2. Music and Audio Fundamentals
1. Audio Waveforms
2. Key Relationships
3. Beats vs Timecode
4. Audio Sample Rate and Bit Depth *watch free video lesson
3. Overview of Interface and Preferences
   1. Standard Layout
   2. Preferences

1. Setting up a Multitrack Project
2. Manipulating Media in a Multitrack Project
3. Creating Backgrounds and Ambience
4. Creating Foley

1. Working with Recorded Audio
2. The Audio Waveform Editor
3. Copy and Pasting in the Waveform Editor
4. Applying Process Effects
5. Removing Noise with a Noise Print
6. Creating a Composite Audio Clip
   

1. Adding Sound Effects
2. Adding Music
3. Automation in a Multitrack Project
   1. Automating Envelopes
   2. Applying Realtime Effects
   3. Record Automation
   4. Using Timeslices
4. Ambient Noise and Zero Crossing

1. The Mixer
2. Mixing
   1. Adjusting Levels
   2. Creating Busses and Sends
   3. Stereo Space and Panning
3. Exporting Options in Soundtrack Pro

1. What is Surface Control
2. Setting up Surface Control
3. Recording a Voiceover using External Hardware

1. Interoperability in Motion 2
2. Interoperability in Final Cut Pro 5

Jem Schofield
Producer/Creative Director
Apple Certified Trainer

Jem is the president and creative director of Buttons Productions, a CREATIVE company that specializes in providing video production, DVD, web, audio and post solutions for a variety clients (with particular focus on the film, music and entertainment industries). Additionally, Clockwork Cinema, a newly formed division of Buttons Productions, provides DVD Producing, Design and Authoring services for independent and studio feature films.

He is an Apple Certified Trainer in DVD Studio Pro and Motion and teaches DVD authoring, sound design and motion graphics, around the country, when not trying to meet ungodly deadlines!

Jem has extensive music and audio experience in both performance and post-production workflows. His fascination with music began early in life and in school he was part of a small jazz band. He continued performing with a variety of groups after completing his education and has since created original music for a diverse client base (for web, DVD and video based delivery). He now counts Soundtrack Pro as major component in his audio toolkit.

You can find Jem as a leader in the Apple DVD Studio Pro forum and the Apple Motion forum at CreativeCOW.net, as a writer of feature articles and reviews for P3: Production Update magazine, and regularly admitting that he is becoming far too geeky for his or his family's own good!

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