

Jeff Foster is a published author of several how-to books and training videos in the motion graphics, animation and video production industries and is an award-winning video producer and artist. Visit their website for more information on SmartSound, the Sonicfire Pro 5 desktop software or any of the SmartSound plug-ins. Here’s the short video tutorial showing you how to use the SmartSound plug-in inside Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2014 or earlier):Īnd here’s the video tutorial showing how easy the SmartSound plug-in for Adobe After Effects CC (2014 and earlier): You can then use the plug-in to return to Sonicfire Pro 5 at any time – make further edits to the soundtrack and roud-trip back to the video editor with an already updated soundtrack.

This is a true “round-trip” workflow that allows you to start the process right inside your editing app launching Sonicfire Pro 5, then selecting th exact length of the audio sountrack you wish (or mix several inside the app on it’s timeline), then send back to the video app host you launched it from and it will automatically generate an AIF/WAV file and place it inside yoru project panel as an asset, ready to use. No, they’re not free – even if you already own the Sonicfire Pro 5 software app, but the money you’ll spend on one will pay you back the first project you use it on in time & frustration saved. But I also want to note that since these are only the Adobe video apps that I covered here, they have also updated the SmartSound plug-ins for Final Cut Pro X, Sony Vegas and Avid Studio/Pinnacle Studio 15, 16 & 17. These videos cover the new SmartSound plug-in workflow only and assume you may already be familiar with their desktop sountrack creation software, Sonicfire Pro 5 – as well as a basic understanding of Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects CC 2014 (or CS5, CS6, CC). If you’ve never heard of SmartSound before, then you really, really need to check them out. I just recreated two new short video tutorials and wanted to share them with you here, to show you just how easy this NEW round-trip method is to create/edit music soundtracks for your video/animation projects starting inside your video production apps. Thanks to Frank at Smartsound for his precious explanations.SmartSound has made some great advancements in their software plug-ins for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects since I did my last how-to tutorial two years ago and posted here on ProVideo Coalition. The free version looks very simlar to the full version but only searching and some basic editing features are available NB2 : Express Track no longer exists with Sonicfire Pro 6. To use it one must activate it and pay $29.95 from the application NB1 : the Studio plugin is built into Sonicfire Pro 6 installation files. Enter the coupon code DECLIC2016 before checking out your cart on estore of SmartSound. This discount, reserved for our readers, is valid for 30 days from the publication of this article. We obtained from SmartSound a 20% discount on the purchase of the full version of Sonic Pro 6. To download a free version of Sonicfire Pro 6, buy an update from version 5 to version 6 or buy the full version 6 go to this page. a Pinnacle user who wants to buy the plugin and update his full version of Soncifire Pro 5 to Pro 6 should pay $29.95 for the plugin and $69.95 for the update.a Pinnacle user who wants to buy the plugin and the full version of Sonicfire Pro 6 should pay $29.95 for the plugin and $199 for Sonicfire Pro 6.a Pinnacle user who wants to buy the plugin and use the free version of Sonicfire Pro 6 should pay $29.95 for the plugin.a Pinnacle user that previously had the Studio plugin and the full version of Sonicfire Pro 5 can update to the full version of Sonicfire Pro 6 for $69.95 and must ask to Smartsound a free plugin code.a Pinnacle user that previously had the Studio plugin and the free version of Sonicfire Pro 5 (called Express Track) can update to the full version of Sonicfire Pro 6 for $199 and must ask to Smartsound a free plugin code.a Pinnacle user that previously had the Studio plugin and the free version of Sonicfire Pro 5 (called Express Track) can update to the free version of Sonicfire Pro 6 and must ask to Smartsound a free plugin code.Until the presentation of the novelties of Sonicfire Pro 6.0.3, which will soon be part of a dedicated article, I thought useful to take stock of the different scenarios that may arise for a Pinnacle Studio's user. Since early September 2016 Pinnacle Studio owners can take advantage of its new features since a plugin update for Studio was released by SmartSound. In May 2016, SmartSound published the version 6.0.3 of Sonicfire Pro, their famous Smartsound's musics editing software.
