

The latter are high-quality 10-, 30-, and 60-second clips, as well as the full-length audio tracks for use with cinematic and other video projects. Buying the Audio Master Suite for Mac also gets you SpectraLayers Pro 2 and 25 great-sounding Production Music tracks to download for free. The app by itself comes with 200 Blastwave FX sound effects. Sony's sound editor allows you to manipulate sound and audio like nothing else that currently exists on the Mac OS X platform. In addition, most video can be made a lot more appealing by adding sound effects and music. Even with a R˜DE NTG3 shotgun microphone, your sound recording may not be exactly perfect without some serious editing.

Also brand new is the Convrt Batch Processing Automation Tool, which is a separate batch app.Ī Sony representative once told me the biggest difference between amateur video and a professional movie is the quality of the sound. Other improved features include an Auto Trim/Crop tool, a Volume plug-in, broadcast CALM loudness compliant metering, Event Mode improvements, and a new iZotope plug-in (Nectar Elements). Sony's Sound Forge Pro Mac 2 sound editor was released in February, and it has impressive sound codec support, including FLAC and MP4 video.
