I routinely edit 4-6 hour long podcasts with multiple tracks, some of which only contain short interview snippets. Although I have streamlined my workflow with Hindy considerably, now and then a minor mistake on my part can lead to massive problems. For example: If I cut (ctrl+x) something out of the project and forget to select all tracks, the audio is no longer arranged in the same way that I want it to. Yes, this is visible but when projects become this large, even on a bigger screen you might not be able to spot a mistake only a minute long in a six hour project. Yes, I can partially avoid this by grouping audio from different tracks together but that function has its own pitfalls and is no sure way to prevent this.

What I am proposing is an analoge to the de-bugging feature we find in coding: A function that automatically checks the overall/master audio of the project for silences or overlapping audio files (of course, quite often this is something we actually want: background music or people talking at the same time etc. Usually though, I work with an edited version of the main spoken word part of my audio and then add music, interview snippets and commercials), highlighting those as a de-bugger would source code and then let us browse through them to see, if there actually is a problem. It would be best if we could tell the de-bugger to not involve chosen tracks in this analysis in order to prevent mass-bug detection if we have a background sound/music track somewhere in the project.

This would really make my work a whole lot easier.

Hi,

In the level meters, would it be possible to have the peak lights for L and R channel to burn for a limited time, say three (3) seconds, and then go out, automatically ...?
• If so, I much more easy could see each and every time the sound peaks, instead of now, when I know that it has peaked, but not when.
• If You Donn’t want it to be so, make it a choice in the settings, to choose between a solid light and a light that goes out after a certain time.

All the best!
/JohanL
Stockholm, Sweden

I am unsatisfied with the auto-leveling in Hindenburg. mostly how its confusing. I often use music as a bed to talk over for my podcast. Whenever I use the auto-level, the music is always too loud and I have to manually lower it by 3-6 db. I would like more transparency about what LUFS level the tracks are auto-leveled to. I usually export to -16 LUFS, but when I use the loudness meter, its not -16 LUFS. What is the LUFS when I am editing? When I manually adjust an auto-level and then export, does it export that track at the level I set, or does it adjust it relative to the auto leveled tracks?

See attached screen grab. These five tracks are linked to save synch in a podcast with individual tracks recorded. If I want to select the regions indicated in the screen grab, I need to option click the first region, then individually select each region by clicking with the Command key down.

IF there are no regions in other tracks within that range, you can simply Option click the left most track, then Shift click the right most track and all in between Weill be selected. BUT this applied to all tracks so regions above and below which I don't want, get elected too.

So unless I have missed the keyboard modifier, we need a way to select a range IN A SINGLE TRACK (without having to unlink tracks)

Greetings, hope this message find you well. I am a Voice Actor, I host a voice tracked segment on a radio show and an Audio Describer. Not to mention, I am a Hindy Journalist user and LOVE IT!.

I am writing about the Audio Description piece. I was looking at your program for Audio Books and made me wonder if there is a way to develop an audio program for Audio Description.

As an AD, I often describe eLearning, corporate videos and movies.. The way it works is you bring the video into the platform and with timecodes you record the AD for the video and then export the audio file. Sometimes, depending on the client, they may want you to actually put the audio in the video but that's rare.

AD is the descriptive narration of key visual elements of live theatre, television, movies, and other media to enhance their enjoyment by consumers who are blind or have low vision.

There aren't many options out there for those of us that do AD, we either have to import a video into our DAW and hope for the best, or pay for web based applications and that are NO WHERE near affordable. something like the HIndy for book narrators would be amazing.

I would also be happy to be a beta tester.

April

aprilwattsvoice@gmail.com