In an organisation that has multiple recording studios It is common to prepare the structure in advance, send it to a studio and after the recording someone does a quality check on the end product.
One of those checks is very evident: checking if the structure of the book is intact.

Hindenburg ABC has already a difference between a reading mode and edit mode on the manuscript but we believe we could gain more security if you could activate an overall lock on the entire manuscript. For example with a menu option, or with a lock button on the manuscript titlebar.

This might help additionally against accidental damage to the textstructure made by someone else before recording.

In a studio-environment it can be quite messy when you need to drag the Narration View window with the mouse to an external monitor for the reader in the cabin. You don't see that monitor, so it is a bit odd.

Windows 10 has a set of very nice shortcuts for Window management. Although the shortcut for maximizing (Windows key + arrow up) works perfectly fine, the combination Windows key + SHIFT + arrow left/right doesn't.

With Windows key + SHIFT + arrow left/right you can move a window between monitors. This is a very handy shortcut! This works with the main Hindenburg ABC window, but It doesn't with the Narration View window.

We believe this might be as easy to solve as changing a very particular window-configuration-parameter.

If you don't understand what I mean, please leave me a message via e-mail.

When first cutting a recorded interview, usually there is no need for selecting and dragging regions. The main activity is selecting areas for editing, splitting areas and cutting. However, the primary function of the mouse button is still the selecting of regions - you have to go to some empty place (often the only option is the thin area separating two tracks) for the cursor to change into selection mode.

So it would be very useful to have a shortcut (like SomeKey+mouse drag) to put the mouse cursor in selection mode, or even a dedicated Selection Mode, when only the selection cursor is available.

Hindenburg is incredibly powerful but mixdowns / renders can be very time consuming if effects have been used, particularly if there are several tracks to process.

While I realize that some of that is unavoidable, the way Hindenburg matches loudness targets is to process the mix twice - once to determine loudness processing needs and again to apply them. It seems like the duplicate processing could be cut in half if the mix was first rendered to a temp file and then that file processed for final loudness and export / publish.

Depending on the amount of processing in a file, this could cut nearly 50% of the render time.

Additionally, if publishing files with *exactly* the same output format and settings, it would be great if Hindenburg could group those, process the final file once, and then publish to all destinations rather than publishing multiple times.

Depending on the number of destinations and duplicate files, this could cut export / publish time by well over 50% and keep people within the Hindenburg interface rather than creating workarounds.

When editing a track (cutting out unnecessary repetitions, breaths, and such) the playhead sweeps over the region to be cut out, so one must scroll back to get the relevant part in view. Doing this with the scrollbar at the bottom is not easy - dragging the slider is too fast, clicking on the empty part of the scrollbar is too slow.
I see two good solutions to this problem which could be implemented simultaneously:
1. Some key + mouse drag transforms the cursor into a hand (like Space in Adobe Photoshop, or the Hand tool in Acrobat Reader), and you can pull the relevant region into view while the playhead stays at its original position.
2. Shortcuts, preferably simple keystrokes to jump back and forward a fixed portion of the screen (default to half, but may be customizable). The playhead stays at its original position.

Hello, I am a blind journalist and I would like first tou congratulate you for the accessibility's work that you did in this program. Neverttheless, it is not possible for me to contrôle and modify the volume of my traks because this fonction seems to be only visual. Does it exist some short cut which allaws blind people to increase or decrease a track's volume? Otherwise, maybe you could include a parameter in the menu for this? Anyway, I hope you will be able to suggest me something quickly about that.
I am French and I am using Hindenburg on Windows