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Soundbooth vs. Cinescore????
Has anyone here used Cinescore and also tried out the beta of Soundbooth? I was just wondering how you thought they compared? I kinda tend to want to buy Cinescore just because its by the Vegas people, who I don’t think get nearly enough exposure and credit for some great software. However, I run a very small, part-time video business and can’t afford to buy things that I don’t need.
So to me, just looking at the websites and such, it seems you basically get the same thing with Soundbooth as Cinescore: easy soundtrack composition based on pre-created tracks. But with Soundbooth you also get some great features to enhance, clean, and otherwise manipulate your audio, including the non-music parts. And all of its designed to be easy to use and targeted at those of us who are video people, not sound gurus. Plus it only costs $25 more.
Also, how does the music produced by Soundbooth compare with Cinescore? I know some people around here said that the results from Cinescore sounded rather electronic in many cases, when they compared with SonicFire’s results. I just wondered how Soundbooth stands up against those two?
–the Fiddler
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I tried Cinescore was deeply underwhelmed. Soundbooth looks possibly to be a much more interesting software. For instance:
“if you can see the sound, then you can select it — and if you can select it, then you can edit and remove it. Soundbooth (and Audition) turn audio clean-up into the same kind of visual editing you are used to with Photoshop. First select the offending audio — draw a rectangle, or even choose an arbitrary region with the lasso. Then tone down the sound by reducing its volume, or, even better, use Auto Heal to actually remove the selected noise, much like Photoshop’s Healing Brush. It’s real magic for rescuing clips that are marred with brief unwanted noises.” — https://manifest-tech.com/blog/2007/03/audio_editing_for_video_adobe.php
However, the beta has very limited audio abilities, and includes only 3 usable scores. Also, I don’t know how you can determine the real cost since “Pricing is to be determined.”
As I have written elsewhere, for adding music I much prefer to find what I like for the video I’m editing at https://www.freeplaymusic.com/ and then slice and dice within Vegas. However, that’s not for everyone. Possibly Soundbooth will be worth the price. Certainly the cleanup aspect with “heal” looks very enticing. I suspect that the cost be steep, as it’s another Adobe product.
Rick
Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
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I’m agreeing with you Rick. I’m personally interested in the soundtrack (music) design features. So we’ll see if that’s any good, but if it compares to Cinescore, I think I’ll have to go with it. Anyone else have any input?
There’s a cool flash demo of the Adobe CS3 Production suite. And the music that you can play there as a supposed demo of Soundbooth sounds great. But I don’t know if that’s really reflective of the real deal.
Sure wish Sony would integrate better PSD support, as well as flash export into Vegas. They’re going to need to do it sooner or later to compete with Adobe’s new “workflow” push.
–the Fiddler
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