THE ENCODING PROCESSĭuring a three-step process called “blocking,” SmartSound’s proprietary software, Block Aid, encodes stereo music tracks supplied by SmartSound’s network of professional composers. ![]() This marks the first time that a needle-drop music library has been encoded to work with SmartSound technology. ![]() Recently, SmartSound entered a partnership with Megatrax, a music library production company, to launch a new SmartSound-enabled music library comprising more than 260 songs on a single, dual-layer DVD entitled The Scene. For multimedia creators, Sonicfire Pro has advanced integration with Macromedia Flash. 4.5 and Media Composer® Adrenaline™, and includes 40 tracks of pre-licensed SmartSound music tracks. Sonicfire does the work of an experienced music editor by creating a professional-quality soundtrack that is perfectly timed.”Sonicfire Pro is now bundled with Avid Xpress® Pro V. Music tracks retain their original keys, tempi and tempo variations (hard quantization is not a requirement for encoding), and legato, rubato or accelerando sections, grand pauses and key changes are kept intact after encoding.Kevin Klinger, president and CEO of SmartSound Software, says, “Sonicfire Pro 3.2 is the most efficient way for commercial and broadcast media creators and editors to create a compelling, high-impact soundtrack, especially when there is neither time nor the resources to hire a professional scoring composer. The resulting transformation sounds natural, musical and without digital artifacts, as neither pitch shifting nor time stretching is used. All of SmartSound’s library music has been pre-encoded using a patented technology that allows any track to be instantly rendered into a new and unique musical arrangement, featuring intro, main body and ending sections, and ranging in length that is anywhere from three seconds to more than 30 minutes. a provider of music soundtracks with a huge library of license-free music tracks and its flagship product, Sonicfire Pro 3.2 - believes it has a solution.Traditionally, needle-drop music libraries are sold via music CDs, where cuts at a set length are manually auditioned before users import and cut in a video editing system to the required length for the picture. ![]() SmartSound ( Software of Northridge, Calif. And, with the increased number of video changes at the last minute, timing music to video can sometimes be problematic. A three or four-hour booking for a 30-second spot doesn’t leave a lot of time for final music tweaks. Speed is everything in commercial music production.
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