Any Vegas users using Cinescore?

[Terje A. bergesen]

I like it. The music is mostly very “electronic”, if you like that, you’ll like Cinescore. It is also quite limited in terms of matching music exactly to changes in your video, you really can’t. In this I mean that using the standard Cinescore tool, you can not create music that has beats exactly on scene changes for example, you do not have control to that level.

I work around this by finding what I want, cutting it about how I want it, and to the length I want, then I use Cinescore to create the music, perhaps add some things here and there, and then I try to match the video to the music by fine-tuning my edits.

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Terje A. Bergesen

[Gary Kleiner]

I certainly use it and like it a lot. Not yet expert enough to release training on it, but that is subject to change:-)

Gary Kleiner

Learn Vegas and DVD Architect

http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com

[Janet Turner]

Doug –

I use Censcore and like it a lot. Sometimes I don’t like the way a piece ends – too abrupt. When that happens, I keep searching for something that is more to my liking and I can ususally find it. From reading the post from Terje, however, it sounds like I can pull a piece I would prefer using into ACID and do some fine turning. I have not tried doing that. All in all, it is a good product only destined to get better. Hopefully those of us getting in on the ground floor will be rewarded with great upgrade pricing.

Grasshopper

[Rick Wise]

I found it not worth the price (boring music, boring variations, smells of bad sound library music.) The best I could do with this is checkerboard a couple of variations, and add a third layer of loops from Acid. If you are comfortable cutting music up, a much richer source is https://www.freeplaymusic.com/. Although there’s a lot on this site that sounds canned, there’s also a lot that sounds good. Search tools are excellent. And for personal projects, use is free. For commercial projects see their terms, which are very, very reasonable. Note that most cuts come in several different lengths. I have found that when I find a candidate for a project, I download most of the variations and then cut and paste to taste. It’s amazingly easy to stretch a piece (copy sections) and also to condense a piece (cut out sections.) The more you do it, the easier it gets. Listen to the beat and the tune, and look at it too on Vegas. I am not a musician by the way.

Rick

Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com

[Redio]

I use Cinescore and like it.

You can find tutorials on the Sony site here

Rune

[Unlearner]

I love Cinescore. It is a nice bridge between complete music creation using Acid to simple, on the fly creation for someone who needs music to fill a project for a specific length. Both of those programs will work best for people who know and can read music, but Cinescore is the easiet way to get to something workable. My only critique is that a lot of the content of the Cinescore themes are lifted from the Sony loop libraries that they pitch for Acid. If you have many of the loop libraries, you might feel disappointed because the Cinescroe themes don’t all have a “new” sound to them. Perhaps as the demand for the software grows, Sony will expand the library and repetoire from which the themes are created. But for the price, Cinescore is efficent and more than satisfactory.

[Sada]

Its a nice basic product, but obviously sales aren’t going well enough to warrant consistent releases of good
music. To be quite frank, I think this product is not making Sony money and I dont see them supporting it in the future.