Musicbed DV is a Mac OS X application that revolutionizes the stock music workflow, giving users unique tools to create custom soundtracks. It simplifies the process of integrating music into video production, making it easier to find content and design perfect soundtracks.
Musicbed DV is a production music tool that is easy to use and intuitive. It allows you to browse and customize professionally composed music beds to suit your web, DVD or video projects quickly and easily. The platform has an innovative feature that gives users interactive control over the music's stylistic and textural characteristics, enabling you to customize the music's feel to match the mood of your visual project. Additionally, music timeline automation features provide professional video creators with an easy way to sculpt the music over visual scenes or sequences.
Some key features of Musicbed DV include music browsing, where you can browse music clip variations for installed Synk Music Library™ titles, by visual story genres, moods, styles, texture, tempo, and pitch. There are real-time music previews while playing video. Music timeline features non-linear editing of music clip start, stop, and duration, automatic generation of music clips for specified start, stop, and duration, non-repetitive music generation without loops, clip start, stop, and duration drag operations in the timeline, seamless and gap-less transitions for music edits, and clip section/theme editing and arrangement. There is also an optional snapping for timeline operations.
The music characteristics allow you to adjust music clip characteristics, including background/foreground, melodic/percussive, sparse/dense, light/intense, clean/lush, smooth, sharp, and abstract/real music characteristics. You can also adjust tempo and pitch, and all characteristics interact. Music keyframes allow you to automate music clip characteristics over time with keyframes, and there is precise positioning of keyframe time, keyframe time drag operations in the timeline, optional snapping for timeline operations, and keyframe automation curve overlays.
In terms of video, any file type is supported by QuickTime, and you can create projects via QuickTime file drag and drop. Visual markers display video frame at marker location, and there is a real-time update of marker video frame during drags. There is also video timeline scrubbing, and video scrubbing during music clip add. Markers allow synchronization of music clip start, end, and duration via markers, and there are visual markers display video frame at marker location, real-time update of marker video frame during drags, and optional snap to marker during timeline operations.
Musicbed DV also includes audio export options, where you can choose AIFF and WAV file types, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz sample rates, 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit depths, and more. Miscellaneous features include automatic and manual music detail preferences for optimal system performance, a limiter on audio output eliminates digital overs, non-linear editing of music clips with unlimited undo, automated cue sheet generation, and FCP familiar keyboard shortcuts.
To use Musicbed DV, you must have a Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4, G5, Intel or better processor, display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher (1280-by-1024 resolution recommended), QuickTime 7 or later, 512 MB of RAM, 18 GB of available disk space for application installation and music content, default audio device capable of 44.1kHz stereo output, and high-speed internet access is recommended. The platform offers a 30-day trial with some limitations.
Some key features of Musicbed DV include music browsing, where you can browse music clip variations for installed Synk Music Library™ titles, by visual story genres, moods, styles, texture, tempo, and pitch. There are real-time music previews while playing video. Music timeline features non-linear editing of music clip start, stop, and duration, automatic generation of music clips for specified start, stop, and duration, non-repetitive music generation without loops, clip start, stop, and duration drag operations in the timeline, seamless and gap-less transitions for music edits, and clip section/theme editing and arrangement. There is also an optional snapping for timeline operations.
The music characteristics allow you to adjust music clip characteristics, including background/foreground, melodic/percussive, sparse/dense, light/intense, clean/lush, smooth, sharp, and abstract/real music characteristics. You can also adjust tempo and pitch, and all characteristics interact. Music keyframes allow you to automate music clip characteristics over time with keyframes, and there is precise positioning of keyframe time, keyframe time drag operations in the timeline, optional snapping for timeline operations, and keyframe automation curve overlays.
In terms of video, any file type is supported by QuickTime, and you can create projects via QuickTime file drag and drop. Visual markers display video frame at marker location, and there is a real-time update of marker video frame during drags. There is also video timeline scrubbing, and video scrubbing during music clip add. Markers allow synchronization of music clip start, end, and duration via markers, and there are visual markers display video frame at marker location, real-time update of marker video frame during drags, and optional snap to marker during timeline operations.
Musicbed DV also includes audio export options, where you can choose AIFF and WAV file types, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz sample rates, 16 bit, 24 bit, 32 bit depths, and more. Miscellaneous features include automatic and manual music detail preferences for optimal system performance, a limiter on audio output eliminates digital overs, non-linear editing of music clips with unlimited undo, automated cue sheet generation, and FCP familiar keyboard shortcuts.
To use Musicbed DV, you must have a Macintosh computer with PowerPC G4, G5, Intel or better processor, display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher (1280-by-1024 resolution recommended), QuickTime 7 or later, 512 MB of RAM, 18 GB of available disk space for application installation and music content, default audio device capable of 44.1kHz stereo output, and high-speed internet access is recommended. The platform offers a 30-day trial with some limitations.
What's New
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