Cinescore and new libraries?

farss wrote on 8/13/2007, 4:17 PM
Not trying to stir up anything here but today I've been advised that a 3rd party is now supplying additional music for Cinescore. Not a word about this from SCS and I find that curious, was this part of the plan, that they'd pass the product over to 3rd parties after the inital release. Or what, Cinescore seems to have been languishing since an inital round of enthusiasm and left to wither from lack of new libraries. It's nice that someone else has breathed new life into the product and all but this would seem to be a change of direction, it'd be nice if there was some formal announcement from SCS, at the moment it looks more like a salvage operation than a planned change in course.

Bob.

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DGrob wrote on 8/13/2007, 5:03 PM
It seems to me that I've read a couple of articles referring to the settlement of a lawsuit that involved Sony et others involved in this Cinescore kind of thing. I personally took this as a positive sign that might explain the complete vacuum that's fallen on Cinescore. I note that the new Sony media catalog features Cinescore prominently.

I hope so. I really enjoy and use the stuff.

Darryl
kairosmatt wrote on 8/15/2007, 9:30 AM
Hi Bob,
Just curious if you were at liberty to fill us in with any more info?
Thanks
apit34356 wrote on 8/15/2007, 10:06 AM
Farss, I got an email from VASST promoting a new set of music tracks. Could that be the lead? Now that Sony and Smartsound settled that court battle, I was hoping that Ss Libraries would integrate smoothly with cinescore, so I would start trying out cinescore without thinking I'm wasting money and time rebuying "same" tracks.
farss wrote on 8/15/2007, 3:50 PM
Yes, that's what I was referring to.
I've got both Cinescore and SFPro and quite a library of SFPro music. I find for my needs SFPro works very well. Client wants to choose the music I just send them off to the web site and he sends me back the product code. I bill him 50% of the cost of the CD that contains the track whether I've got it or not.

I don't have much of a problem with how SFPro works with Vegas, it takes very little time to render out my project at Preview and use that AVI in SFPro. If I want SFPro will create separate tracks and open a Vegas project with those tracks already labelled for me to mix or I can use their Mood Mapping and render a mixed track.
My only wish is that SFPro could read the markers that Vegas places in the avi file, that would help. Apart from that I would never try to do the music in the same project as where I'm cutting vision and mixing dialogue etc.

Bob.