Chapter . Getting Started

There’s an old cliché in the motion picture world: Video is two-thirds audio. And it’s true. Audiences don’t mind a video that has the occasional dodgy edit or improperly balanced color. In fact, the eye is such an imprecise instrument of perception that people even enjoy watching badly compressed moving images on the web, stuttered and distorted as the video may be. But if your audio is even slightly less than perfect, viewers will switch channels or click to another website. “Noisy” audio is the bane of any video production; wildly fluctuating dialogue levels annoy viewers, and poorly mixed soundtracks seem to cause unbearable weight on the audience’s ears. Using Soundtrack Pro, you can resolve all of these issues. ...

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