I have your soundtrack tutorial but still have a couple of questions. Do you have one that covers more of the basics for use in FCP? How would you suggest to minimize echo on a video of a speaker in a large hall? Thanks, JK

Another question: How do I send to an Audio File project. From FCT - File - Send To - STP Audio File Project is there as a choice but not active, I cannot select it. What do I have to do to change that?

Martin, thank you for your response. I will look at waves and try to get past the learning curve, if I have enough computer to run it. That may be part of my problem. I have a 933 MHz G4, OS 10.3.9, running FCP v 5.0 with Soundtrack v 1.2. What version of Soundtrack are you using in your tutorial? I probably need to upgrade to a newer version but for the life of me can't find it. I cannot run the new v 2 on this computer. I would love to be able to send an audio clip to an Audio File Project and use all of the nifty filter effects you demonstrate, but when I try to send the audio to Soundtrack the Audio File Project is grayed out and not available. If I open my version of Soundtrack there is no Audio File Project option, just a multitrack. My work around to try next is to export the audio as an aiff file and bring that into STP. This will make some, but not all, of the filters you demonstrate available. So, I am assuming that I need a new version of STP or I am missing something. One suggestion I was given was to trash the preferences in STP to see if that helped. I appreciate any clarifications and suggestions you may have. -JK

I put videos on Google Video which compresses them into Flash format. My programs typically run 30 to 60 minutes. I use to create an uncompressed version and run that through Sorenson Squeeze but once YouTube and other sites caught on, the goal became compressing your video the best way for it to look after it is again compressed in flash. All of the tutorials I find on the best way to do this are for less than ten minute videos. If I follow their suggestions (or even the ones suggested by Google Video) I end up with a huge file that takes forever to upload and often doesnâ??t show up after uploading. There is no tutorial I have found that says â??this is the best method to use ... apply these settings in _____ formatâ?? and none of the methods I have tried look all that great on-line (or as good as some of the other videos I have seen on these sites). I would be eternally greatful if anyone would share the format and settings they have found to create good looking videos on sites like video.google.com. I am using FCP 5. TNX, Jeffrey