Workflow with SonicFire Pro 4?

mcope1961 · Post by **mcope1961** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:43 pm

I've been impressed with how SmartSound enhances my videos with very little technical and creative effort on my part other than making the creative decisions. My kind of tool!

I see they have a product called SonicFire Pro 4 that can enhance your videos even more with "Mood Mapping". Looking at the demo on SmartSound web site, it looks like you load your video in SonicFire Pro and establish key frames where you want the instrumentation (i.e., the mood) to change. This looks terrific, but I'm concerned that VideoStudio 10+ and SonicFire Pro 4 would not be well integrated with each other, if at all. What would the workflow be like? Would you constantly be switching back and forth, not really having a "dominating" work environment or tool that is responsible for "the project"? Someone enlighten me if I'm missing something.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:13 am

I have only recently acquired SF4 and so cannot speak from vast experience. I also admit I have not had time to look at the program in detail. However, from what I can see (and do so far), is to use the mood mapping within SF4 so that I am matching the SmartSound music to my video. But AFAIK the SF4 keyframes are not read once you transfer the video back to VS. However, you now have an audio stream which you can export as a WAV file from SF4 and open in VS. You can then position that audio file in one of the audio channels in the timeline and line it up so that it matches the video sequence you used in SF4. And if they are lined up pretty closely, then the 'mood matching' music will play with your video as you wanted it to when you render a new video file.