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Sonicfire Pro 6 Tutorials

First look at Sonicfire Pro 6

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 10 minutes 23 seconds

  

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan explores the new Sonicfire Pro 6 interface, demonstrates the standard workflow, and shows the new Cut Video To Music feature.

 

Search and Download in Sonicfire Pro 6

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 7 minutes 32 seconds

  

Larry Jordan showcases the different ways to search and preview music from the Smartsound Music Library to find the perfect track in Sonicfire Pro 6. Also covered is purchasing tracks from within Sonicfire Pro 6.

 

Mood Mapping in Sonicfire Pro 6

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 10 minutes 01 seconds

  

Larry Jordan shows you how to use the Mood Mapping feature of Sonicfire Pro 6 to adjust the music to fit the changing moods of your production. With Smartsound's huge library of Multi-Layer Music, the Mood Mapping feature gives you access to up to 9 separate instrument layers. Open with Drum and Bass, Duck for Dialog and close with a Full Mix for the action sequence. No other music library offers this level of creativity.

 

Timing Control in Sonicfire Pro 6

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 7 minutes 32 seconds

  

Larry Jordan demonstrates the updated Timing Control feature in Sonicfire Pro 6. This feature allows you to move the beats of the music to match the events in your video, and has been reworked in Sonicfire Pro 6 to deliver better results than ever before.

 

New Cut-Video-To-Music feature in Sonicfire Pro 6

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 5 minutes 24 seconds

  

Larry Jordan demonstrates the all new Cut-Video-To-Music feature of Sonicfire Pro 6, which allows you to include timing-related markers embedded within the audio export. These markers can then be used to fine-tune your edit points, making for a more dramatic cut. This feature is currently supported for Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro X, compatibility with other NLEs will be added with future updates.

 

Sonicfire Pro 5 Scoring Edition Tutorials

Purchasing & Downloading Music with Sonicfire Pro 5.8

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 9 minutes 42 seconds

  

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan outlines the new account integration features of Sonicfire Pro 5.8, and demonstrates how this new version helps you purchase and install music from our site much more easily. It also covers reinstalling existing purchases from within the Sonicfire Pro interface. This new version also includes a brand new music album, "Core Evolution".

 

Overview

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 8 minutes 02 seconds

  

Larry Jordan takes you on a tour of the powerful timeline-based interface of the Sonicfire Pro 5. Learn your way around the different windows: Timeline, Properties, VU Meters, Bin/Spotting, and Video. Larry also gets started with a project so you can see the basic functionality.

 

Using Mood Mapping

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 7 minutes 15 seconds

  

Larry Jordan shows you how to use the Mood Mapping feature of Sonicfire Pro 5 to adjust the music to fit the changing moods of your production. With Smartsound's huge library of Multi-Layer Music, the Mood Mapping feature gives you access to up to 9 separate instrument layers. Open with Drum and Bass, Duck for Dialog and close with a Full Mix for the action sequence. You'll also learn how to use the new Hit Files feature to emphasize key events in your video. No other music library offers this level of creativity.

 

Custom Length Music

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 8 minutes 10 seconds

  

Larry Jordan shows you how to use the Custom Length feature of Sonicfire Pro 5 to adjust the music to fit the changing moods of your production. This capability alone will save you hours of editing without having to compromise an ounce of quality. Since Smartsound is real music played by real musicians, not just midi or synthesizer music, this is like having your own personal music editor on hand anytime you need it. When you just can’t cut the scene to the music Smartsound’s Custom Length features come to the rescue, allowing you to keep the integrity of your video and your story.

 

Using the Spotting Feature

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 8 minutes 49 seconds

  

In this video Larry Jordan demonstrates the Spotting feature in Sonicfire Pro.

 

Timing Control

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 5 minutes 55 seconds

  

Larry Jordan demonstrates the awesome Timing Control feature in Sonicfire Pro 5. This feature allows you to move the beats of the music to match the events in your video.

 

Exporting Music and Using Smart Recall

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 6 minutes 21 seconds

  

Larry Jordan shows you how to get music from Sonicfire Pro 5 into your video or audio projects. A built in Sent To option sends the music right into your project making it the fastest way to get customized music into your timeline. Advanced options like exporting instruments as separate layers is useful for later customizing and surround sound mixes. The Smart Recall feature is also demonstrated to show how music files from Sonicfire Pro can be edited later without the need for saving project files.

 

Setting the Configuration Options

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 5 minutes 27 seconds

  

Larry Jordan helps you understand the configuration options of Smartsound Sonicfire Pro 5.

 

 

Customize Music and Lyrics Using Smartsound Vocal Music

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 9 minutes 57 seconds

  

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan creates a heartfelt video with Artbeats footage and shows you how to use the New Smartsound Music with Vocals to create a great music background complete with appropriate lyrics. He is using Sonicfire Pro 5 software and Smartsound's Voxation Series, Multi-Layer Music with Vocals. Search for music based on lyrics, change the arrangement so the lyrics match your video and even mix out instrument and lyrics that you don't want at any time in the timeline. Smartsound has the largest royalty-free music library available for immediate purchase and download.

 

Creating Sound Effects from Instrument Layers

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 4 minutes 56 seconds

  

In this tutorial, Larry Jordan shows you how to use Sonicfire Pro and Smartsound Multi-Layer music to create a sound effect or sound design element from part of an instrument layer. The Smartsound Multi-Layer Music offers incredible creativity and flexibility for making music fit perfectly to all of your productions. This is truly the most creative royalty-free music library available in the world...watch these tutorials and you'll agree.

 

Changing the Music Arrangement with Timing Control

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 4 minutes 31 seconds

  

The nature of royalty free music has been seriously limiting before Smartsound. Since the music wasn't made for your production it was complicated to edit and fit with the theme of your video. The Smartsound Music library smashes those problems to pieces and offers you a simple way to make each track a perfect fit to every project. This video shows you how to use the incredible Timing Control feature to change the arrangement of the music to better fit the pacing and timing of your video. Sometimes library music will change and develop out of sync with your story. Watch how Sonicfire Pro gives you the control to make the most creative productions ever.

 

How to Crossfade in Sonicfire Pro

Professor: Larry Jordan | Class Time: 1 minutes 50 seconds

  

This video tutorial shows you a quick tip for using Sonicfire Pro to easily crossfade to audio tracks. Now, the Smartsound technology edits Smartsound music so precisely that you will rarely need this feature for Smartsound music track. Nevertheless, this will work with Smartsound tracks as well as your own audio clips. Crossfading is a very useful feature that is simple to do in Sonicfire Pro.