Cinescore vs Sonicfire Pro 4

mark-woollard wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:30 AM
I've been using Smartsound's Sonicfire for several years to score video projects both in NewTek's VT and Vegas 6. I saw a brief demo of Cinescore at NAB, and was impressed, but didn't think it offered any big advantages over Sonicfire 4. So I bought the version 4 upgrade and two discs of multilayer music with mood controls.

Are there advantages to Cinescore that I missed?

Comments

TomE wrote on 5/1/2006, 7:53 AM
This seems to be the real question about Cinescore. How does it compete with Sonicfire Pro version 4 ? I actually bought SFpro3 for a project that fell through and luckily I was able to cancel the order (since it had been a few weeks and hadnt shipped yet) I think one of the reasons SF has not been a bigger hit with the Vegas community is that it has friendliness with Premiere. I think the thing that could make Cinescore really score is to have it work well with Vegas. No rendering before you have to bring it into Vegas timeline. I assume they will do this otherwise I think it is just an excuse to push more sony music libraries on us. Kinda like the inkjet printer mentality where they are really just trying to sell ink and custom paper. I am hoping that I am not disappointed.

TomE
mark-woollard wrote on 5/1/2006, 8:47 AM
I agree tighter integration of Cinescore would be a real selling point for Vegas users.

Anyone know if SMS has made a public commitment to do that?
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 5/1/2006, 10:57 AM
I dont know of anything - but they'd be fools not to, they should simply make it able to integrate well, wtih Vegas, and fairly well with PPro.

Anyway - yea, I can only assume that they'd integrate it pretty heavily with Vegas, as Vegas is made by the same group, and it's not by some random section of sony somewhere else.

Dave
MarkMc wrote on 5/1/2006, 5:52 PM
I have SFPro 3 and find it's very useful for many types of projects BUT for 30 second commercials I think the library is a little limited-seems like there are only 1 or 2 songs per library that are suited to commercials and at $100 per library... My question would be to anyone who has tried the demo (DSE?) or have seen it at NAB are there libraries in Cinescore that are taylored for that type of work?
Yoyodyne wrote on 5/1/2006, 6:09 PM
Cinescore is really cool - took a class on it at NAB and I gotta get it -

From what I understand the product comes with a bunch of libraries but each library has about a bazzillion variations within each theme. It was really cool, you could select a theme and then explore that theme through various instrument combinations. And the results varied hugely but it was all good stuff still keeping with the mood of the original theme.

Well, I'm explaining it badly but it seemed much more flexable than the stuff I have done with sonicfire (back when it was smartsound). Hope this helps -
apit34356 wrote on 5/1/2006, 8:03 PM
S.pro4 actually looks and sounds good. Like the feature of removing instruments, changing theme....etc. Cinescore, which I have not used, seem more for individuals that enjoy working and creating music backgrounds. Cinescore( or parts of it) looks like it could become a plug-in for vegas, but I'm only guessing.
birdcat wrote on 5/2/2006, 4:59 AM
I have Sonic Fire Pro 3 and love it - The big question is do I shell out $200 for the upgrade to version 4 or do I go with Cinescore?

Does anyone know if Sony is gonna do the free trial with Cinescore they have done with their other products?