Chapter 14. Creating a Sound Track

Lesson Files

FCP4 Book Files > Lesson > Lesson 14 Project

Media

Sahara folder, Music folder

Time

This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.

Goals

Understand the Soundtrack interface

Build a sound track

Export a Final Cut Pro sequence to Soundtrack

Open a sequence in Soundtrack

Create a composition for a sequence

Export a Soundtrack file to Final Cut Pro

Import a Soundtrack into Final Cut Pro

Often, a major task for editors is to find a good music track to support a sequence. Frequently, this brings up royalty issues or composer costs. With the Soundtrack program, editors no longer have to find the right music track, they can create it. Soundtrack is a music composition program, built especially for OS X, ...

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