Product Description

Sony Cinescore is a breakthrough in professional soundtrack creation. It provides content creators with a palette of themes that can be customized to match the moods and genres of the surrounding work. Generate your own fully composed, multigenre, production music perfect for movies, slideshows, commercials, and radio productions. Producers select a basic Theme, and Cinescore's engine creates music that can be shaped to fit. Multiple tracks with functional editing capabilities ensure the most accurate fit for your media. The music's time and tempo, intensity, variation and repetition can be easily connected with associated video or voiceover down to frame level accuracy. The customizable, user-defined settings yield an unlimited number of musical choices. Create the perfect soundtrack without any specialized musical knowledge or technical skill. Hint markers control changes in tempo, mood, and intensity Multiple ending types for generated media Includes over 300 sound effects and audio transitions Themes sorted based on instruments, keywords, and more Video scoring track and real-time preview window Audio sweetening track Real-time editing during playback Interactive Show Me How tutorials and online help Volume and pan envelopes Audio time stretching Track markers and regions CD audio extraction External monitor preview Unlimited undo/redo Project media bins

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3772 in Software
• Brand: Sony
• Model: SC1000
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

Features

• Automatically generates music to match any time duration
• Video scoring track and real-time preview window
• Includes 20 fully customizable Themes in multiple genres
• "16-bit, 44.1 KHz song quality for exceptional performance
• Powerful user-defined settings yield unlimited musical results

Customer Reviews

Good product
So far I've only used it on a few videos, however the comments from viewers (unsolicited) were that the music was very professional and fit the action. Only drawback is that it is not easy to alter the music at a precise point. Have to score smaller scenes to do it. However, for the most part after only a few uses (and I expect to get better with it over time) the product performs as I expected and I'm pleased. Web site has good tutorials as well.

Music Selections Are Just Plain Awful - Mostly Noise
I could only find one category that I would consider good -- the rest were annoying to painfully bad. If you want some soft mellow background music, you are mostly out of luck. Oh, you can order some more packages of terrible music on-line. The only one I could stand was the Wedding Package, but I don't see any weddings on the horizon. And they are expensive. Just go to the Sony web site and listen to the sample music and it is representative of what is in this software. Total waste of money. Pinnacle Studio has far better selections, but obviously they don't work with Sony Vegas Pro 8. Otherwise, it works as advertised. I just do not understand whey they didn't offer more variety for other generations of music lovers.

Cinescore
I bought this for my son for his birthday. He had done research into the specifics and was pretty sure this would do what he needed. Well, we all know how that goes. You get it and install it only to discover it's not nearly as easy to use or versatile as they claim. Not so with this product. My son has raved about it and shows it to anyone who sits still long enough.