Music

lazy-joe · Post by **lazy-joe** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:18 am

just a quick question so i can compare diffrent video editing software...does video 10 plus come with any free soundtracks to ad to the movie or do you have to buy them sepratly?

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:01 am

Yes, VS10 comes with some audio, and Smartsound.

Ron P.

lazy-joe · Post by **lazy-joe** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:05 am

is the audio good how much? and what is smart sound? sorry bout all teh questions but i have a very limited budget and jsut wanna get the most for my money

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:46 am

Most of the major video editing programs all use Smartsound quicktracks
http://www.smartsound.com/

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 6:40 am

There are only a couple of music samples apart from the SmartSound Quicktracks. There are 26 songs in the latter (though I only seem to be able to get 24 to work). Essentially, SmartSound gives you the ability to select a piece of music and extend it or match it to any desired time length of video to the exact second. This makes it sound rather more professional. But if you extend the music for more than about 3 or 4 minutes, it quickly becomes rather repetitive. These tracks come free with VS. But if you want to buy more of them, they are IMHO hellishly expensive at US$99 per CD!!!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:40 am

Yes they are expensive when bought as 44k single discs.
There is a deal on at the moment for 15 x 22k moviemusic discs
http://www.smartsound.com/moviemusic/index.html
$247.50

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:41 am

Ken Berry wrote:There are only a couple of music samples apart from the SmartSound Quicktracks.

Thats interesting Ken - my copy of VS10+ loaded 14 music tracks in the Audio Library and I have an additional 10 music tracks on the Bonus CD.

I could perhaps add that the 26 Smartsound tracks each has a number of variations (from 3 to 7) so the full range is quite useful.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:29 pm

VS10+ says it is loading 26, and goes through 26 individual attempts, but on two of them (Bach, Queen of Sheba) it says something is wrong, and goes on to the next. The silly part is that both of these two songs loaded on the first attempt, and others did not. I happened to have saved the original sub-directory when I uninstalled Quicktracks before reloading. Next time, all the ones it would not originally load, loaded, but not the two above. So of course I thought I would transfer those two into the new Quicktracks Libary sub-directory, and rebuild the database within VS10. But when it got to Bach (number one!) it asked me to insert the SmartSound disc. I tried the VS disc on which SmartSound was located but it couldn't see it. Ditto for Sheba. At that point I gave up since I don't use Smart Sound within the program very much...

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:29 pm

Ken
They are the same 26 which are on the Version 9 disc. You could try re-installing from that source.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:45 pm

I was referring to music tracks other than Smartsound Ken

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:00 pm

Brian -- I am embarrassed to admit you are quite right! I have never counted the other (i.e. non-SmartSound) audio files installed for the simple reason that I have never used that background music in anything except a quick experimental project which I wanted to do with a minimum of searching for audio files. Worse, I had installed (following a suggestion from Steve) the bonus files in a separate folder on the computer so that they would be available from other Ulead programs. But then I never accessed, or added, them to VS10+. My error!