[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.

[Unlearner]

You may not have to go through all of that trouble to create a “faux 5.1” mix, as you say.

Many surround sound systems are run through amplifiers that can take stereo sound and emulate a 5.1 setting, so there is nothing you need to do if your homne theater has those options. You can prove what I’m saying by putting a cd into your system and fool around with your amp’s presets, and you’ll see that the stero sound can be channeled through all of your surround speakers to create different listening effects.

What you are talking about is really creating a stero sound into a true 5.1 mix. Once you start spreading signal to left, center, right, and rears, there is nothing “faux” about what you’re doing. 5.1 mixes won’t sound like 5.1 on a normal stero system, so if your aiming for that type of output, mixing for a 5.1 would be a waste of your time.

[Unlearner]

The reason your file is so big is that you are probably rendering to WMV in its default setting. If you check the drop down menu in the render box, you will see that there are numerous WMV rendering options based on the internet connection speed. Seeing how it is almost pointless to do video (except the most basic kinds) for Dial-Up, especially if it is longer than 2 minutes, I usually choose a minumum setting of 256k to get a decent file size. If you want more quality, choose the higher connection speed option, but the file size will often grow. As the other post said, you can tweak these settings even futher in the individual tabs for audio quality, video qaulity, etc.

To somewhat placate dial-up users, I usually render an audio file of the video for them to at least listen to.

Good luck.

[Unlearner]

Thanks for your feedback. I should have mentioned in the original message that I do have the latest version of Quicktime. It doesn’t seem to be a problem with Quicktime as much as it is with Vegas reading the file.