Education
SmartSound in the Classroom

If you are an educator integrating digital video into your class work, you know that it is a learning tool that can teach your students valuable real-world tools while stimulating them to learn more about a variety of subjects and be more creative in their schoolwork. But, not having the right tools for them to use can be a major burden that disrupts the learning process. And with school budgets always being tight, each purchase decision is absolutely critical.

When it comes to the music scores for your school productions, the options available to you as an educator might seem limited. Most high-quality music libraries are far too expensive, but the increased awareness of music copyright law has most schools mandating that students only use appropriately licensed music in their productions. This can drive some schools to traditional discounted music libraries or even loop-based music programs, but there's no better solution than SmartSound.

SmartSound offers an easy-to-use solution that brings your students great results – without breaking your budget. The unique combination of SmartSound's patented software technology and the large and diverse royalty-free music library delivers unmatched results for the students and peace of mind for the educators. There's a good reason SmartSound has become the de facto music scoring tool in most popular video editing programs...see for yourself.

Key Benefits:
  Royalty-Free Licensing: All SmartSound music is royalty-free for educational purposes, meaning that you never have to worry about copyright infringement.
  Time Savings: By using SmartSound technology, your students can score their footage quickly, leaving them more time to focus on the storytelling aspects of their production.
  Ease of Use: SmartSound offers your students the ability to quickly understand how to score their productions without having to learn about audio editing or mixing music.
  Ensures Great Results: The nature of SmartSound’s solution ensures that your students will have a music score that sounds like it was professionally created. A positive experience for each student encourages pride of ownership and maintains their interest in school projects.
  Flexibility with Existing Solutions: Scores created with SmartSound can be used in any popular video editing solution, as well as imported into audio editing programs for additional tweaking. Even if you expand or change your classroom’s editing bay, your SmartSound solution can change right along with you.
Case Study:
Deer Park Elementary School
Dan Huffman - Uses SmartSound for Education
Dan Huffman

The projects that Dan Huffman’s students work are not just for class; often times, they help fund their very program. His students work with the local fire department to produce training videos, document special events, and have even won a grant with the state of Washington to shoot a video on freeway trouble spots.

“The thing that I like the best is the quality of the compositions and its ease of use,” says Huffman.

> Download the Deer Park Elementary School Case Study

Recommended Products:
  Get started with the low cost SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 - Standard Edition. If you are interested in discounts on Sonicfire Pro 4 lab packs, contact us for a special price quote
  SmartSound’s Movie Music is designed and licensed exclusively for home and educational use, and works with all SmartSound technology. It's also available at a reduced price
  For a wider selection of music and music licensed for use outside the school, such as film festivals and broadcast television, visit our Professional Music page.
  SmartSound technology is included with the leading video editing products used in classrooms today. Products embedding or bundling SmartSound’s technology include Avid Liquid 7, Avid Xpress Pro, Avid Media Composer Adrenaline, Pinnacle Studio, Cyberlink PowerDirector, Ulead VideoStudio and Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8. Visit our Partners section for more details.
  Watch FREE hands-on tutorials of Sonicfire Pro 4 with Mood Mapping in action at the Sonicfire Pro Tutorials page.
  If you are interested in discounts on Sonicfire Pro 4 lab packs, contact us for a special price quote