Comments

rextilleon wrote on 5/26/2006, 11:09 AM
In my mind, the music is horrible. So far inferior to Smart Sound. I have a funny feeling that this product is geared towards the home movie set---although I could be wrong. Again, I would much prefer to see them keep Vegas on a one year development cycle then spend value time developing products like this.
J_Mac wrote on 5/26/2006, 11:11 AM
Should make our videos 'subliminally' pretty exciting. I'll make some music just to play around the house. Happy days are here again. john.
rique wrote on 5/26/2006, 12:02 PM
Are you saying you only got 2 of these 20 themes and that the rest cost more money?

That's what it sounds like. I haven't installed the demo yet. I was relying on what others in this thread have said:

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=461461
Jay Gladwell wrote on 5/26/2006, 3:35 PM

Win, that was funny! Got a good chuckle out of that.

Rex, I'm right there with you.


Wes C. Attle wrote on 5/26/2006, 6:23 PM
Images of Shaft and Jim Rockford move accross my monitor when I play one of those cheezy Cinescore samples.

Whats to deal with this annoying fake percussion and digital music? Acid had the same problem. It would be fine if subjects at wedding ceremonies were robots.
plasmavideo wrote on 5/26/2006, 7:25 PM
"Sure it's not ZZ Top or Hollies "Long Cool Woman" (thanks Stonefield!, one of my favorite songs), but it definitely fits the need. "

Our local classic hits station just tracked "Long Cool Woman" followed by "One Fine Morning" by Lighthouse and Vehicle" - Ides of March. Talk about a 70s fix!

I'm feeling old - I used to play those as current hits on the radio as a DJ - jeez, where's my cane and some BenGay.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 5/26/2006, 7:26 PM

Interesting you find the score to Shaft as cheezy. Nothing synthetic or fake about it.


farss wrote on 5/26/2006, 8:18 PM
Nothing will ever beat a good composer and real musicians that are conversant with the art of scoring for film / video.

But let's ignore the Muzak that ships with Cinescore, I've no doubt that more packs will become available.
What I'm interested in is just how much can one tweak the music.
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/26/2006, 8:42 PM
you've got a fair amount of "tweak-ability" in the application, I think you'll find it satisfactory for most things. I don't know what ships with the app, the press version has 20 songs. Only a couple are lame in their main layout, but if you start to tweak and play, especially being fast and furious with markers in the weak moments, you can get some nice sounds out of the app.
fldave wrote on 5/27/2006, 5:03 AM
I was thinking/hoping for the ability to tweak. I see Cinescore as a supplement to, not a replacement for, scoring options such as Acid, your guitar, your voice, orchestra, choir.

I will definitely try before I buy.
Orcatek wrote on 5/27/2006, 6:12 AM
For me in testing it. I used Cinescore to build the basic track, then dumped it into Acid and added elements to punch of the music.

I like it so far. Time will tell on how fast they add music. I've used Sonicfire and the problem I had with it was recognizing tracks from it in others work. That being said I did upgrade to V4. As with it you can manually output the different instrumtent collections to wav files. Then you can do a 5.1 mix with it, place the music how you want.

Cinecscore and base Sonicfire leave you with stereo how they want it.

Dan Sherman wrote on 5/27/2006, 7:24 AM
Cinescore is money well spent for what I do.
Spent twice the price for royalty-free music in last project.
The time I used to spend looking for suitable music I can now spend "making" the music.
This may offend musicians, but a lot of the time all I need is some professoinal sounding incidental BG with a suitable sound and tempo.
Cinescore gives me that.
It's a good sharp tool for the right job.