Cinescore

by Sony

Product Features

• Automatically generates music to match any time duration
• Video scoring track and real-time preview window
• Includes 20 fully customizable Themes in multiple genres
• "16-bit, 44.1 KHz song quality for exceptional performance
• Powerful user-defined settings yield unlimited musical results

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000FNCRTO
• Item model number: SC1000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,195 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Cinescore software is the fastest and easiest way to automatically generate professional music for movies, slide shows, broadcast products, and more. It works with royalty-free themes to produce a virtually infinite number of musical variations for any video project.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cinescore -- Sony Score!, June 19, 2008

By 

Michael A. Weber (Gurnee, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinescore (CD-ROM)

Movie lovers and film makers all know that it takes more than excellent video to make a good movie. Excellent video combined with mediocre sound quality and an average musical score always results in a disappointing movie viewing experience. Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" provides a classic example. Try watching the famous shower scene with the sound turned down. Without terrific music, the scene is transformed from bone-chilling to mundane.

You may not have a composer like Bernard Herrmann to score your video production, but with Cinescore from Sony Creative Software, you have access to thousands of musical possibilities that can be custom-matched to your video.

I recently produced and edited a 52 minute video production using Vegas Pro 8 (another amazing product from Sony, but that's a different review). The visual flow was engaging and appealing. The audio quality was likewise excellent. But a killer score was needed to give the viewing experience emotional impact. The deadline loomed. No time to create and produce the essential musical soundtrack. This is the point where many independent filmmakers take the risk of using someone else's copyrighted material. Cue the "Theme from Dragnet".

Enter Cinescore. After careful (but quick) research, Cinescore was selected. Cinescore ships with 10 primary themes (songs) that can be extrapolated into thousands of musical permutations all with a few mouse clicks. Cinescore is user friendly and intuitive. I was adding high quality customized music to my video within 20 minutes of opening the box.

Here is what is so amazing about Cinescore. You don't have to be a musician to use it. In fact, no musical training is necessary at all. The process is simple. Select the scene you would like to score and consider the emotion you wish to induce in the viewer. Is it funny? Scary? Dramatic? Somber? Inspiring? Then, audition the available themes in Cinescore to find the best match for your scene. You can easily alter the mood, intensity, and tempo of your selection to create unique music for your scene. Then, click on "generate music" and Cinescore creates a musical selection that is precisely matched to the length of the video scene. It's literally that fast and simple.

If you have more time and a creative appetite, Cinescore provides many point-and-click options that enable you to tweak the musical selections into sonic perfection. The resulting audio is commercial CD quality and royalty free!

Although Cinescore can function as a stand-alone score generator, I installed it as a Vegas Pro 8 plug-in. This enables Cinescore to open seamlessly within Vegas. And it was a crash-free experience.

Although I am an amateur, products from Sony Creative Software (Vegas and Cinescore) gave me the tools I needed to create a pro quality video production. The proof? After viewing my video, many people assumed that I hired a professional production house to create the video. That's the ultimate!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sony Cinescore Review, February 7, 2007

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Sid (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cinescore (CD-ROM)

If you want to add royalty free background music to you video this is the way to go, especially if you are using Vegas. It is a seamless plugin, and there is a good selection of music on the program CD.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool for entertainers, too, June 20, 2008

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D. Crone (Columbus, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinescore (CD-ROM)

As a professional ventriloquist and magician, I have long struggled with the issues of obtaining rights to use music in my performances. No more! This tool is terrific for creating background music for my magic effects as well as "bumper" tracks that play while I transition ventriloquist characters. And it's all royalty free. It's easy to use, produces final songs with terrific audio quality, and lets you go back and make changes as needed. If only writing jokes were this easy!