Others say...

"Great as always"
Another excellent training book by PeachPit. I would have liked a little more focus on Audio Editing for Voice Over and Podcast work but the foundations are there. Of course if you actually bought the software and I do not know that Mr. One star did you get some of the best manuals ever packaged with a software package in recent years. Well if you bought Logic Pro 8 that is.

Ignore the guy with an old install of OS 9 he has no business with this software anyway and could not run it in any meaningful full production environment anyway. Considering how inexpensive Apple OS upgrades are my money is on that reviewer using Pirate Software anyway. Anyone who can actually afford the software can afford a $130.00 OS upgrade and if he has a machine so old it is below the minimums for TIger and Leopard he is not actually running in a production environment anyway. WHich is the impression he is trying to give with his comments and the "Name" of his "business".

I really hate when people like that run down a perfectly good product that the authors and publishers worked hard on. They are clueless and need to just go back to using Windows machines or leave the Mac community all together. SO who ever you are crawl back under your rock and stop posing as a "Professional" when all you are is a pirating hack.

Sorry for my rant but I have read one too many of these lame reviews. Sad thing is Amazon might just pull my review and leave that thing up.

Is this book perfect. No and if I were not countering that review I would have given it a 4 out of 5 because it does not cover VO and Podcast well enough.

"totally non-functional"
The software on this training manual was non-functional. My machine runs with Mac OX 4.9. I received and error as soon as I tried to open a lesson. I call Peach Pit (or peach whomever) and was told they were aware of the problem and would send me a new copy. That was a while ago and still I haven't seen anything the mail. It is a little unbelievable that these companies know that their products are bad and don't recall them. They grab our money and we have to fight to try to get something back. I guess it is a sign of the times, but it makes me weary.

Hopefully the problem will be fixed soon so that this review will be mute soon. Actually I have a bookshelf full of Apple Pro Training manuals and love most of them. They are far better than the Adobe books. I am slowly working my way through the Adobe Dreamweaver manual now and sometimes I think if I could get my hands on whoever wrote it I would kill them. Adobe wisely does not tell us who they are. Cheers.

Stan / Desert Wind Productions

"APTS: Soundtrack Pro 2 Reviewed"
Apple Pro Training Series: Soundtrack Pro 2 (Apple Pro Training Series)

Excellent step by step training, enabling me to make a precise change of one incorrect word made during a video interview. The edited change was indistinguishable. It just doesn't get any better than that!

"Apple Training Manuals.... different manual same dependable information"
What did you expect? The training dvd along with the book will get you up and running in no time at all!!!!

"Too basic"
I found this book less informative than other Apple Pro Training Series books. You learn only basic moves (like, creating fades and moving clips around), but not an efficient work flow or any more trickier tips. In general, you learn pretty much nothing worth going from FCP to Soundtrack.

It seems like book was written with video editors in mind, and that's fine... why then explain us what the SMTP stands for? I'd rather read about the difference between four types of cross fade or other theory of sound.