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Subject:ACID or buy other RF music libraries Posted by: gidget Date:10/6/2004 1:34:29 PM This is my first post to these forums and I would like to get some feedback on ACID Music Studio. I'm going to be producing some simple slideshows/video presentions with Vegas Movie Studio. I'll be selling these to clients and I would like to add background music. Do you think it's more cost effective buying the ACID program to produce my own background music or should I buy royalty-free music library tracks (from another source)? Is it really that difficult to create some simple background tunes (mostly for the boardroom)? I just don't want to spend "too" much time trying to produce some background music for a presentation but I do like the endless creative freedom ACID would give me. I did download the trial version of ACID and feel comfortable with the interface. Thanks for your feedback!
Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries Reply by: Jessariah Date:10/6/2004 1:55:26 PM You'll get a lot of opinions on this. Mine is: If you are fairly music savvy, Acid is great to put stuff together. The biggest benefit to this is that you control the music and can pretty much create what you want at the tempo/length you want. The biggest drawback is the amount of $$ you will need to invest to have a healthy loop base to draw from. 4000 loops sounds like a lot, but it isn't. Then there's the time involved in actually putting the music together. IMO, you have to weigh the pros & cons. If you're not that particular about the exact aesthetics of the music, then I'd go for the Royalty Free option. If you want more control & the ability to edit the music (and don't mind the additional time/money investment), then go Acid. KH
Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:10/7/2004 5:23:39 AM While at first, it seems much easier to just drag and drop royalty free music to the timeline, you will find that after a few projects you’ll get board of hearing the same set of songs over and over again. ACID solves this problem by providing the endless capability to mix and match loops in different ways. You can also have the best of both worlds. ACID will let you Beatmap a royalty free song and then add loops to it. Even if you’re not very musical, you can use a royalty free song to get you started and then modify it in different ways by adding loops, rearranging verses and choruses, or adding whole new sections to it. I’ve used both and royalty free music is rarely the length you need it to be. That means you need to cut and splice to make it the correct length. While you can do this in Vegas, the ACID Beatmapper makes this simple because all your edits are guaranteed to be on the beat. Without ACID it’s a cumbersome chore to make the splices smooth are rhythmic. Personally, I believe you can’t loose with ACID. It’s an exceptional tool for scoring music to video. You also might want to pick up a copy of VASST ACID for Nonlinear Editors with Rudy Sarzo. You can read my review of this training DVD at DigitalVideoEditing.com. I picked up a lot of great tips and techniques from Rudy’s DVD. ~jr
Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries Reply by: gidget Date:10/7/2004 8:52:51 AM Hi KH & jr and thank you for your replies. -jr, that is an interesting suggestion using RF music AND clips. You're so right about the music realey being the length I need it. I guess what I need to do is take the next few weeks with the trial version and create some mock presentations to see how long it actually takes me to produce a project. g

Subject:ACID or buy other RF music libraries

Posted by: gidget

Date:10/6/2004 1:34:29 PM

This is my first post to these forums and I would like to get some feedback on ACID Music Studio.

I'm going to be producing some simple slideshows/video presentions with Vegas Movie Studio. I'll be selling these to clients and I would like to add background music.

Do you think it's more cost effective buying the ACID program to produce my own background music or should I buy royalty-free music library tracks (from another source)? Is it really that difficult to create some simple background tunes (mostly for the boardroom)?

I just don't want to spend "too" much time trying to produce some background music for a presentation but I do like the endless creative freedom ACID would give me. I did download the trial version of ACID and feel comfortable with the interface.

Thanks for your feedback!

Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries

Reply by: Jessariah

Date:10/6/2004 1:55:26 PM

You'll get a lot of opinions on this. Mine is:

If you are fairly music savvy, Acid is great to put stuff together. The biggest benefit to this is that you control the music and can pretty much create what you want at the tempo/length you want. The biggest drawback is the amount of $$ you will need to invest to have a healthy loop base to draw from. 4000 loops sounds like a lot, but it isn't. Then there's the time involved in actually putting the music together.

IMO, you have to weigh the pros & cons. If you're not that particular about the exact aesthetics of the music, then I'd go for the Royalty Free option. If you want more control & the ability to edit the music (and don't mind the additional time/money investment), then go Acid.

KH

Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:10/7/2004 5:23:39 AM

While at first, it seems much easier to just drag and drop royalty free music to the timeline, you will find that after a few projects you’ll get board of hearing the same set of songs over and over again. ACID solves this problem by providing the endless capability to mix and match loops in different ways.

You can also have the best of both worlds. ACID will let you Beatmap a royalty free song and then add loops to it. Even if you’re not very musical, you can use a royalty free song to get you started and then modify it in different ways by adding loops, rearranging verses and choruses, or adding whole new sections to it.

I’ve used both and royalty free music is rarely the length you need it to be. That means you need to cut and splice to make it the correct length. While you can do this in Vegas, the ACID Beatmapper makes this simple because all your edits are guaranteed to be on the beat. Without ACID it’s a cumbersome chore to make the splices smooth are rhythmic.

Personally, I believe you can’t loose with ACID. It’s an exceptional tool for scoring music to video. You also might want to pick up a copy of VASST ACID for Nonlinear Editors with Rudy Sarzo. You can read my review of this training DVD at DigitalVideoEditing.com. I picked up a lot of great tips and techniques from Rudy’s DVD.

~jr

Subject:RE: ACID or buy other RF music libraries

Reply by: gidget

Date:10/7/2004 8:52:51 AM

Hi KH & jr and thank you for your replies.

-jr, that is an interesting suggestion using RF music AND clips. You're so right about the music realey being the length I need it.

I guess what I need to do is take the next few weeks with the trial version and create some mock presentations to see how long it actually takes me to produce a project.

g