SmartSound Software Inc. is an American computer software and royalty free music

Royalty free music

Royalty-free music commonly refers to stock or 'library music' licensed for a single fee, without the need to pay any subsequent royalties.- How it works :...

 company headquartered in Northridge, California, USA. The company is focused on providing production music

Production music

Production music is the name given to recorded music produced and owned by production music libraries and licensed to customers for use in film, television, radio and other media.-Introduction:...

 that can be made to a custom length using their patented process

Method (patent)

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First music is broken into blocks of a few seconds or shorter. Then music editors

Music editor (filmmaking)

The music editor is a person in film or other multimedia productions responsible for compiling, editing, and syncing music during the production of a soundtrack....

 determine which blocks flow smoothly into or out of other blocks. They also mark blocks as appropriate beginning or ending pieces. This process can take several hours for a piece of music that is a few minutes in length. Finally special software uses the information encoded into each block to create a score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 of any length with a musical beginning and end.

There are many non-linear editing systems

Non-linear editing system

In video, a non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing digital audio workstation system which can perform random access non-destructive editing on the source material...

 that can use SmartSound music to create custom length scores. Notable video editing software

Video editing software

Video editing software, is application software which handles the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a computer non-linear editing systems...

 includes Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere Elements is a video editing software application for nonlinear video editing, published by Adobe Systems. It is a scaled-down version of the professional-level Adobe Premiere Pro, and is optionally bundled with Adobe Photoshop Elements. In 2006, it was identified as the number one...

, Corel VideoStudio, CyberLink Media Suite

CyberLink Media Suite

CyberLink Media Suite is an all-in-one package featuring a combination of CyberLink software applications. Media Suite allows users to watch Blu-ray discs, face-tag photos, edit audio and burn discs among a range of other functions. Its main competitors are Corel Digital Studio, Nero Multimedia...

, Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio is a non-linear video editing software application manufactured by Pinnacle Systems, a division of Avid Technology. It is the consumer-level counterpart to Pinnacle's former professional-level software, Liquid Edition . It also inherits from VOB Computersysteme's Instant CD/DVD...

 version 1 through 12, PowerDirector

PowerDirector

CyberLink PowerDirector is a video editing software application for non-linear video editing, published by CyberLink Corporation. PowerDirector allows users to capture, edit and output from within the software and has semi-professional features suitable for the consumer level...

, Ulead MediaStudio Pro

Ulead MediaStudio Pro

Ulead MediaStudio Pro is real-time, timeline based prosumer level video editing software by Ulead Systems. It is a suite of 5 digital video and audio applications, including: Video Capture, Video Paint, CG Infinity, Audio Editor and Video Editor...

 and many Roxio

Roxio

Roxio is a division and brand of Sonic Solutions . Roxio branded products are sold online, through over 15,000 retail outlets, to organizations through volume license agreements and pre-loaded onto OEM PC's and devices...

 software products.

Software plug-ins are available for Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...

 and Pinnacle Studio 15.

SmartSound's soundtrack creation software, Sonicfire Pro, is available directly from SmartSound. There is both a free and full version. The full version is also bundled with Media Composer

Media Composer

Media Composer, frequently referred to as "Avid", is a type of computer software application known as a Non-linear editing system . It is the flagship product of Avid Technology. It was released in 1989 on the Macintosh II as an offline editing system...

, Roxio Creator 2011 Pro, and Xpress Pro

Xpress Pro

Avid Xpress Pro was a non-linear video editing software aimed at professionals in the TV and movie industry. It was available for Microsoft Windows PCs and Apple Macintosh computers....

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