Anything is possible, and I don't use Cinescore, so I don't know if it has been abandoned. However, patent licenses like this are often the consummation of a "friendly" legal dispute where one company calls the other to notify them of possible infringement of their patents. Rather than litigate, both parties usually enter into a cross-licensing agreement where each party agrees to license the other's technology. Most of the time, little, if any, money actually changes hands. The lawyers still get involved, but at far lower rates than trying to litigate.

That's probably what is going on here. As to Cinescore, if there was any question about infringement, that might have slowed release of new versions. Therefore (and this is total speculation on my part), you might see something from Sony in the next 3-4 months.

I just hope the add SmartSound into Vegas. They have some good libraries that customers can browse when they don't know what sort of music they want.

Andrew

Maybe Sony has been adding to the library all along, but not releasing until this was settled? That would mean there are some releases stockpiled. Maybe they can give us a discount for waiting so long??? (Ha Ha).

Also another possibility: Cinescore could now maybe support Smartsound content?

Hopefully we find out sooner and not later.

Edited: After rereading, it sounds like support of Smartsound content is not involved. It appears that Sony wrote Cinescore and infringed on Smartsound patents in the process. At least we should expect more Sony content in the future.

I've bought into both, been with Smartsound for a long time. It's got integration with several NLEs but I could never understand why not Vegas. With the multilayer libraries letting you do your own mix in Vegas the whole thing rocks but tighter intergation to reduce the number of steps involved or even having Smartsound read Vegas's markers would be a big step forward.
Cinescore seems more capable than Smartsound but so far the speed of choosing a track in Smartsound makes it a no brainer when the client is choosing the music with you.

Bob.

Also, we're at Vegas 7.0e and still cannot export from SmartSound directly to an open Vegas project like we can to v6. I cannot imagine that v7 poses such an amount of difficulty for them to make the enabling update.

I did ask via their support, but all I got was it's coming RSN. Hmmm ...

Tom

Ok, I have Vegas 7d and Smartsound 4.5.

Here's how it works for me. If I have a multi-track Smartsound selection, when I say export soundtrack, it lets me select an export of individual tracks and also lets me select a send to Vegas 7.

When I export, it prompts for a location for the WAV files and then upon completion it bring up Vegas and the clips are in the media pool waiting to be put on the timeline.

Is that what you were expecting, or is there something else that should happen?

Thanks for your reply psg.

Seems that after my post, the new version was released, taking it to v4.5. I am still at 4.2.

Strange tho' that when I do an update check through SS, it doesn't tell me that a new update is available. I have it now, thanks to you.

And the behaviour you see is exactly what I'd expect it to do, but hasn't been at the level I am using. Good to hear if behaves correctly at v4.5.

Tom