Adobe Premiere + Music

[Kov-Ice]

What do you use for music when putting together a video in Adobe? Pinnacle provided dozens of different full-length mixes with Studio Deluxe, but I've run across nothing similar in Adobe.

I have Audition, but there don't appear to be any pre-made music mixes there, either. You'd have to mix your own from all the instrument .wavs that are provided, but my feeble attempts at that aren't going to sound worth anything.

I did come across a really cool-looking program (plug-in?) called SonicFire by SmartSound. Kinda expensive, but is this really the only alternative for soundtrack music?

[SonicVanguard]

Adobe Premiere is a professional application - it makes full assumption that you already have a music bed ready and waiting. Premiere 6.5 at one time was bundled with a program that created royalty-free music beds - not well - but it did the job in a pinch. I don't for the life of me remember what it was called - we never used it and it was most likely pitched when we did our initial installation.

Dave.

[Kov-Ice]

So do you create your own, Dave, or do you have a program you rely upon to generate stuff? Have you (or has anyone else) heard of the SonicFire suite mentioned above? It's the only thing I've found of its kind, but I hate to drop $300 on something without a little better insight. Gotta spend money to make money, tho, right? Thanks for any help.

[TheJackal]

I believe that the program that Dave is referring too is Smart-Sound QuickTracks, as it was bundled with both Premiere 6.0 and 6.5.

[Kov-Ice]

Same company, then. Does that mean SonicFire is going to be poor like the bundled stuff, or since its their top-of-the-line product might it be OK?

[SonicVanguard]

You get what you pay for - we pay musicians to compose original material and my partner (Audiyoda) is an accomplished musician himself. He's written a good deal of what we use on our keyboards and using a few composition programs we have (Finale and Reason). For lower budget work we will pay for royalty-free works that are readily available from other studios.

I can't tell you if this program will work for your needs - we've never needed it and neither of us have used it. All I can say look the program over - it looks like they do have a Premiere Pro version of Quicktracks for $100 - that might be a better choice for you. And see if there is a trial version you can download - play around with it, see if it's right for you.

Dave.

[Kov-Ice]

I'll try to get the SonicFire trial download overnight tonite. My 26.4kbps connection makes it a chore to try things out, but I definitely want to see what this is about. I'm already doing enough projects right now and have enough lined up that I've gotta have a decent selection of ready-made music.

You said earlier QuickTracks did the job but not well. I'm doing simple things like weddings, sports highlights, and family memories videos. Think its good enuff for that?

[Kov-Ice]

Yikes. The SonicFire Demo is @ 50MB, which is an all-night download for me, and that's if my line stays connected... I'm having them mail the demo to me...

SmartSound is who did the QuickTracks plug-in for Pinnacle Studio. I know it's easy to use at least. That's basically the same thing they'd give you for Premiere.

The SonicFire program comes with more music, the ability to edit, and the option to download individual tracks from their library. It is not a plug-in, but a stand-alone product. So, video tracks would have to be rendered and imported into their program in order to fully see how the music will match up. Then you'd export back to Adobe with the attached .wav file. Dunno if that extra step is a good or a bad thing.

As a beginner, I've gotta start building a collection of music from somewhere. Lemme know if anyone thinks of any other options as well.