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So, just how easy is it to work within Sonic Fire? Very, the program is fairly intuitive. You can now have the piece you need within seconds. No longer is it necessary to wait for days or weeks for your order to arrive while your video project sits there. Demo any number of music and FX options and buy only the piece you need for a reasonable price. Don't want to buy an entire disc? Simple, just go online, something you can do from within the Sonic Fire interface.

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Smart Sound regularly comes out with new discs every couple of months so expanding your library to use their software is an easy option. They call these discs Palettes with one disc perhaps being blues oriented, another party or wedding oriented music, while others cover a wide range of music representing different cultures and countries, industrial powerhouse themes, orchestral scoring, Foley FX sounds and far too many more to mention here. Sonic Fire offers discs of music centered on a particular theme or genre. For those not musically oriented, these blocks of orchestration provide easy to identify symbols to indicate which blocks would be good to start and/or end any particular piece. One unique thing about Sonic Fire Pro is that, like its predecessors, it utilizes blocks of music that the editor can use and manipulate in any way or order they find fitting to their needs. Sonic Fire Pro allows you to pick and choose several methods to customize your music.

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The entire program is designed to help the editor create original, copyright free music that will fit whatever video project it is that you are working on and fit it to the exact length and frames that you want. Sonic Fire Pro comes equipped with numerous tools to help the audio editor in all of us and works flawlessly with Quicktime, MPEG or AVI files. That's when I discovered the Smart Sound software, which has evolved over the years to become Sonic Fire Pro 3.1. Not too difficult to do but it is time consuming.

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If not, you are stuck key framing fades to match or figuring out how to loop two clips on just the right beat to make a longer piece. That is fine if your video piece or clip also comes in at those lengths. Many music discs from various copyright free music companies come with multiple versions and lengths of individual pieces, often at 10, 30 and 60 sec lengths. The quickness of creation as you customize your music, as well as the high quality of the orchestration itself is a primary reason to consider having Sonic Fire Pro as one of your essential editing tools. While I find Soundtrack a whole lot of fun and extremely addictive to use, I find that I still utilize the Sonic Fire Program a great deal for its simplicity of use, large available library and the incredible speed by which I can create a perfectly timed finished product. While Final Cut Pro 4 has come out with a super music creation application in Soundtrack, it is very time consuming to create complete musical pieces from scratch. They, through programs like Sonic Fire Pro, can now create and customize their own music selections to match that of their videos or films. Now many editors can simply go online and pay for only the cut or cuts they want.

No longer is it necessary to buy large libraries of music, paying for and/or getting cuts that you might not want. The search for copyright free music has changed quite a bit over the years. One thing for sure is that having a quality music and sound effects library is absolutely essential to any serious editor. Music, which doesn't quite match the plot lines, can distract, disengage and misdirect the viewer. It is a powerful editing tool that serves to push forward the action, create the mood and enhance the story line.

Codecs: Targa, Cinepak, Indeo Video, Microsoft Video 1, Motion JPEG, Sorenson Video.

Formats: DV (NTSC & PAL), AVI (most), MPEG, QuickTime, Flash movies (.SWFs).

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Many video formats require DirectX 8.0+ for full functionality.

Formats: AIFF, WAV, MP3 import, CD Audio, QuickTime.

Any sample rate including: 48 kHz, 32 kHz (DV audio), 44.1 kHz, 22 kHz, 11 kHz.

30 MB available RAM (75 MB recommended).

QuickTime 5.01 or higher (version 6 is required for downloadable previews).

System 9.1 - 9.2.2 and OS X 10.1 or higher.

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