Any SonicFire Pro users?

farss wrote on 4/26/2004, 5:46 AM
This program seems to do what it claims and they do provide a demo. It'll never replace Acid et al but for the tonally challenged like myself it seems to get the job done.
Except I'm having a little drama getting it to open a file created from Vegas. Tried Vegas's vanila PAL DV but it only see the first 2GB of that. So I tried unchecking the AVI2 checkbox in the DV options but then that failed saying I was trying to create a file that was too big for the spec. So in desperation I tried to render to a Quicktime .mov file and that crashed as well.
Yish, anyone got any clues on how to get a video file that this thing will open that's longer than 4 minutes?

PS Still using V4 of Vegas!

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Spot|DSE wrote on 4/26/2004, 6:10 AM
From my view, the order in which you can obtain quality music for video use:
1. Real Musicians, good studio
2. ACID Pro
3.
4. ACID Planet
5.
6.Sonic Fire Pro
7. Buyout libraries

Sonic Fire Pro isn't having any issues opening AVI type 1 nor Quicktimes made with the Sorenson codec on my system. Check the codec and see what happens, that could easily be the problem. Also be sure SFP is set for PAL. (I'm sure you already did, but thought it worth mentioning.
TomE wrote on 4/26/2004, 6:44 AM
Spot,

With Vegas 5 can I just start buying Acid loops and scoring with that?

Or,

Is it that I can take something I created in Acid Pro and bring it into V5 in the Acid file format? I am a little confused. I know that you can do way more with Acid but I haven't gotten around to buying that yet.

TomE
farss wrote on 4/26/2004, 6:47 AM
SPOT,
I'd agree with you're evaluation 100% but then there's the client and budgets and time. I don't think any decent musicians would want their names on this corporate hack video anyway. At least it seems that Sonic Fire do use real musicians who do get paid but then you never know these days. Well obviously they're legit, just not certain about the "real musician" part.

And here's the puch line. I bought SonicFire just to have some basic "Muzak" on hand for this kind of corporate video. I'd asked the client what he wanted to do about music but he thought it was just OK to download some of that stuff that everyone seems to get off the web these days. I gave him a quick tongue lashing that included the word "theft". Next question from him was how to stop his DVDs from being pirated. Go figure!

BTW, fixed the avi problem, strictly conform to AVI spec unchecked fixed it.

Rain Mooder wrote on 4/26/2004, 9:54 AM
I use SonicFire pro and I find lots of good cuts on their libraries.
Although I can play classical organ, I don't have the time or proper
brain cells to run Acid although I'm sure one can compose wonderful
stuff in there from scratch.