Subtitles of the Movie

Now, as you're dealing with items, especially items that have been exported from Final Cut, you're dealing with a sequence typically that will have some sound files associated with it and that application for dealing with those sound files for the most part is going to be Soundtrack. So another important skill when you're dealing with a Motion project at times is to use an external application to tweak the sound before you send it either again render it as a final project or send it over to something like DVD Studio Pro if you're working on, like, an intro sequence that might go in the front of the DVD. So let's do that right here. Let's go ahead and take our sequence that we played. You notice that there is some music playing underneath and so let's ship this out to Soundtrack and make an edit and it'll look very similar to what we did with Final Cut where we shipped a clip out to Motion and then round-tripped it back over in Final Cut. What we'll do here for this is that we'll open up our timeline and there indeed is the music that is in question here. So I'll select both tracks here, both left and right tracks and I did that with a Command click. So I selected and selected the other one so now they are indeed both selected and then I'll do a Control click or you can do a right click if you have a mighty mouse and send this over to Soundtrack Pro. And now it looks very similar. Again, you get a Save Dialog Box and you can put this as Intro Music. We'll just save it in the same folder. It doesn't really matter. But we're going to save it as Soundtrack Pro Audio and then click on OK. We'll click on that button. Now what's happening as you can see is that Soundtrack Pro is trying to launch and I'm getting the same dialog box that I've seen dozens of times now about the screen resolution. You probably won't see this so I'll click on Continue. So once you're done with the export operation, you'll be looking at a Soundtrack Pro window that looks something like this. This, more than any other, is very difficult to show at this resolution, the screen resolution. But we don't go into too much detail in the Motion tutorial about Soundtrack. We just want to show you how to get in and back out of Soundtrack Pro. We talk about this more in the Final Cut Studio 2 tutorial in the kind of synthesis tutorial where we kind of walk through the process of making a commercial or short film and use all of the, all of the applications together and see how they all kind of work in conjunction. But at any rate, you can apply; the reason why you would export Soundtrack Pro is that you have a great deal more creativity and flexibility that you can exert over your audio elements of your project. So in this case here we'll just apply a quick effect by clicking on the Process Menu, Effects and you can do a distortion effect, a dynamics effect, overdrive, you can do something real crazy like, you know, if you do the space it'll open up even a separate window and from here this is something that you probably don't want to get too involved in right now but there are lots of presets that you can apply. And again, my resolution doesn't let this be shown so let's go to just simple distortion and we'll go to Distortion here and you can start to play through your project or again, just the audio portion of your project. So starting to play through it there and you can modify these parameters here. So we just kind of cranked up the distortion on some of the bass and when I want to apply it, I can click on Apply or here I can show presets and I should be able to access some of these presets which heavy distortion, crunch distortion and I can apply the preset if I want to and then got back to something too high on the output. But any rate, turn this down a little bit. Alright. So we'll click on Apply and now the deal is that similar, after the preset has been applied, so now we've kind of crushed the wave form a little bit and we're ready to save it. So we'll save this thing. It currently references external audio files. Select how you want to save the project. We want to include the source audio, click on OK. And the first time you do this, this might take a moment or two as well. And now here's the nice thing; because you can now leave Soundtrack Pro all together and go back over to Motion and now that we're in Motion, we can once again, I'll make the timeline go away, make the project go away as well, we've still got this thing in a RAM preview and now you'll be able to listen to the difference. So that same distortion effect that I was able to apply it very quickly and again, I just went for an extreme example, but that distortion effect in Soundtrack now is present in the Motion project.