Hi,
I wanted to make a suggestion here ... but since it was beyond software, and it appears the thread was about that, I didn't feel that my suggestion would be as significant.
I do think that MC, Sonar and some of those "popular" programs are more geared to simple/popular music, and that what you might want and need is a bit more extravagant and detailed for your purposes.
Might want to check some programs specifically designed for soundtrax and stuff ... they act/react very differently than DAW's do. I would imagine that with stuff for soundtracks you also need to mix and remix a lot and adjust and somehow I am not sure that MC5 is going to be sufficient for your purposes.
It may, however, be a great learning step. And a rather inexpensive one at that! In general, the older soundtrack software used for film and television was mostly about mixing what you already had ... NOT ... create new music as much. The DAW's these days are mostly about creating music and a variation on mixing that is designed for live play a lot more than it is for a defined and clean process that soundtracks required when they are so time specific and detailed. For composition and adjusting, a DAW would be easier to do this than the older, more established, soundtrax software that goes for thousands of dollars out there.
Most video games, whose music I remember, I suppose that it is hard to miss Final Fantasy with some very nice music ... but even then, too much of it was used in loops and simply too repetitive, which was the ting that turned me off the most for almost all of those console games. Even World of Warcraft has better music even though it still was looped, but it was longer and different in different places.
This is as much as I can help with, and hopefully not confuse. I have matched music to film quite a few times in Super-8 ... and I can see where a DAW might help if you are "creating music", but it would be very difficult if you already have a visual to match the music you have with a DAW ... without cutting something in the music along the way as far as I can tell.
I'm working on some stuff I filmed and adding music to it that I created. Mostly I am creating music for it, which means I can cheat and slow down or play with it some more ... until the moment comes to change/cut. This was done on a video at this time for learning purposes.
post edited by Moshkiae - 2010/07/28 15:35:58