Editing Audio from Footage

I want to edit some audio from some video footage. Under the process menu in Sountrack Pro which items should I pay attention for refining the audio qaulity.
The audio basically sounds fine, but I want to make sure it meets industry benchmarks for audio qaulity.
- Anthony

Hey,
Just an alternative suggestion consider moving up to at least Tiger 10.4.3, it increaes the speed on STP by a ton, it goes with a PROAPP-Runtime 3.1, that helped me considerably for taking the time to apply heavy filters like Space Designer.
Basically all you have to do with dialogue is compensate the EQ lacks, where there's a drop in high pitch volume for instance add some high EQ like the AU graphic 10 band, 8khz. You don't need much more than that just remember that dialogue centers between about 4hz and 8khz, so don't worry about anything higher, you can even run a lowpass filter, and use the cutoff at around the highest frequency of dialogue, 8-10khz, to compare for music it would be about 20khz.

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