Precise Audio Control
- Nondestructive, sample-accurate editing of audio files
- Support for up to 24-channel files, including mono, stereo and surround
- Action-based editing to modify, reorder, suspend or delete any audio edit, plug-in or process
- Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as Actions
- Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as real-time effect chains
- Real-time effects applied to audio files can be rendered to Actions
- Intelligent analysis, repair and restoration functions for:
- Clicks and pops
- Power line hum
- DC offset
- Phase
- Clipped signal
- Integrated multichannel file editor
- Audio time stretching without affecting pitch
- Ambient Noise Print to quickly replace unwanted noises from location recordings
- Background Noise Removal including noise print
- Sample ruler units in sample value, normalized, percent and decibel view
- Snapping to ruler ticks, zero crossings, markers and adjacent clips
- Support for bit depths up to 32-bit float
- Support for sample rates from 2kHz to 192kHz
- Support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, CAF, BWF, SDII, NeXT, QuickTime and STAP (Soundtrack Audio Project) file playback
- Saves files nondestructively as STAP files or destructively as AIFF, WAV, SDII, QuickTime, CAF or NeXT
- Export mixes as AIFF, WAV, NeXT, SDII, MP3, AAC/Podcast, Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) or using Compressor
- Selection history
- Waveform and customizable frequency spectrum views with linear and logarithmic display
- Frequency selection and editing in frequency spectrum view
- Animated waveform feedback
- Mini-waveform view
Advanced Sound Design
- Processes including:
- Fade in/Fade out
- Normalize
- Amplitude adjust
- Silence
- Invert
- Swap channels
- Mono conversion
- Channel reordering
- Resample
- Generate silence, white noise, pink noise, sine wave, sawtooth wave, square wave or triangle wave
- Support for Audio Units plug-ins
- Audio Units presets available to all Audio Units-compatible applications
- More than 6000 sound effects, music beds and music loops, including over 1000 in surround
- Powerful media search engine
- Support for Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF and ACID sound and music libraries
Professional Multitrack Audio Editing
- Single window with customizable tab panes
- Customizable window layouts
- Dynamic tab panes with quick show/hide functionality
- Resizable video window tab
- Multitrack Timeline with tracks, busses, submixes and master in stereo or surround
- Multiple multitrack and audio file projects open at once
- Mixed sample rates supported in multitrack projects
- Time- or beat-based tracks
- Ruler in HH:MM:SS, seconds, samples, frames, drop frame, non-drop frame, beats
- Loop clip transposition
- Loop clip speed adjustments (quadruple, double, normal, half, quarter)
- Adjustable automatic and manual crossfades
- Fade selector for customizing fade in, fade out and crossfades
- Tape-style and sample repeat scrubbing
- Rolling edit tool
- Native and custom timecode spotting
- Multitrack recording of mono, stereo and multichannel files
- Lift & Stamp tool to selectively copy plug-in sets from one clip to another
- Lift & Stamp effect sets can be saved as presets
- Lift & Stamp EQ matches the EQ characteristics of one clip to another
- Automation parameters can move with clips or lock to absolute time
- Pull up/pull down of audio and video to all common standards
- Customizable clip and track colors
- Clip locking in multitrack
- Clip disabling in multitrack
- Momentary mono switch
- Automatable master tempo, master volume, master effects and key
- Automation of most mix and effect parameters with read, touch and latch modes
- Pre- and post-fader send busses for application of common effect plug-ins to multiple tracks
- Output bussing for single fader control of multiple tracks
- Support for multichannel audio output devices
- Time, duration, podcast, beat and end-of-project markers
- Powerful browser for locating content quickly
- Multipoint Video HUD
- Tool HUD
- Timecode HUD
- Numeric Clip offset
- Bin with access to multiple projects, media files, markers and clips
- Spotlight-style searching in Bin
Advanced Take Management
- Multitake recording with take editing in Multitake Editor
- Multitake Editor allows comps of multitake recordings and other audio files
- Combine individual phrases from different takes
- Automatic, customizable crossfade between phrases
- Single-click take selection
- Adjustable transition boundaries for multitake comps
- Final comp functions as stand-alone clip while retaining access to all takes
- Slide phrases within edit boundaries
Surround and Stereo Mixing
- Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing and routing
- Console-style mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, bus, submix and master
- Surround panning of mono, stereo and surround audio files
- Mono, stereo and surround files can be combined on same track
- Support for multichannel surround files
- Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance and individual speaker disabling
- Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track
- Automatic surround to stereo fold-down option
- Support for True Surround and multi-mono effects
- Control surface support (Mackie Control Protocol)
Integrated Workflow
- AppleScript scriptable (executable from Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro 6 or as AppleScript droplets for batch processing)
- Automator actions for creation of complex multiapplication workflows in Mac OS X v10.4 or later
- Support for video formats up to HD resolutions
- Integrated video tab
- Output to SD and HD1 video monitors (via FireWire or PCI card)
- HD1 or SD output using Digital Cinema Desktop2 to second Apple Cinema Display
- Send and receive MIDI timecode and beat clock for synchronisation with hardware and software
- Integration with Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 4 and Motion 3
- Round-trip audio file editing with Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3
- Support for Final Cut Pro 6 scoring markers
- Conform tab to conform audio edit to new Final Cut Pro 6 edits
- Conform visual interface for highlighting changed areas
- Accept or reject changes across entire project or selectively on a change-by-change basis
- Podcast track to create audio-only, enhanced or video podcasts
- Support for chapter, artwork and URL markers on video and audio podcasts
- Export presets and customizable post-export scripts
- OMF import
- AAF import and export
1. HD requires a Power Mac with 1GHz or faster single or dual processors and 1GB of RAM or any Intel-based Mac with a minimum of 1GB of RAM.
2. Digital Cinema Desktop requires a dual-port AGP card with second display.
