When working with separate tracks of several remote guests on a podcast or talk show it is essential to delete "silent" parts of the track when someone isn't talking. Sometimes these parts are not silent at all (because of a lot of background noise or leaking audio from headphones), but that makes it even more important to have them removed.

I would like Hindi to be able to identify and insert breakpoints around these sections automatically and remove them upon request. That would make my life soooo much easier.

It would be great to be able to choose from a series of templates when starting a new project. Ideally I'd like to designate an existing project as a template. Hindenburg would then remove all audio that is not currently used in the editor or clipboard to minimize the size of that project. That would greatly improve my workflow.

So it looks like I'm the only one with this problem:

I would like to use more than 4 effects / VST plug ins:

Noise Reduction (Reaper ReaFir)
Noise Gate
EQ / Voice Profiler
Compressor
De Esser

As of now, Hindenburg Journalist (Pro) is one of those rare DAWs that can only apply effects during playback.
But: For some (live) applications we need to apply effects in real-time.

I'm specifically talking about the new Skype-Killer called "Studio Link" (basically Skype with way better quality, no account, no delay, direct recording in your DAW and only browser-based for your guests in the near future). This plugin demands processing in real-time in order to work.

Joining two clips on the same track, say by clicking the line between them, could really help to keep the tracks "clean" and simple.

When you have to move a section it would make it easier when you only have to move one large bit in stead of 5 smaller.

Think of it as a permanent Group.

I'd love to mark several clips in the clipboard and have them batch-exported automatically as separated single audio takes. This would on the one hand allow for reducing the project size dramatically if the original audio source is very large, i.e. an interview or material from a press conference etc.
On the other hand this feature would help to forward single takes to the editorial office or to other applications.

It would be nice to be able to have two columns in the clipboard section, or create a custom grid pattern so I'm not limited by the height of my screen (I currently have my clipboards on a separate screen than the rest of Hindenburg Journalist, and also using the max number of clipboards)

Support for midi, osc, and other hardware communication protocols for physical controller mapping.

Editing large projects with many clips, I regularly spend a lot of time scrolling through the clipboard to find a specific clip. It would be really nice to have a search field or other filters to narrow down the number of clips in the list.

It would be nice to be able to change the order of the tracks just by dragging them to a new position. Minor thing, but if it is possible...
Tomas Tengby
radio presenter & producer

The menu item View > Markers does not show Cue Points which is a pity. I propose inserting a new menu item View > Cue Points which shows a list of all cue points.

Custom keyboard shortcuts are the way to streamline the workflow. So far, I find the predefined shortcuts clumsy and awkward. I know you're product is different, but if there's one thing you can emulate from Adobe Audition, it's the ability to create custom keyboard shortcuts. that's going to be a game changer.

When we produce large books (studie literature) or books containing several languages, several narrators are working on the same project at the same time, readig different parts.
It would be a nice if we could merge these parts, included structure, pagenum or other elements. Importing audiofiles and adding these elements afterwards takes to much time..

Eivind NLB

My workflow would greatly improve if I could use a control surface/mixer interface with Hindenburg. Most of them use MIDI to connect (e.g. behringer, presonus faderport, etc.). It's incredibly disappointing that software this expensive has no compatibility with any of the control surfaces I use.

Save an open session automatically.

Would it be possible to move the order of the headers in TOC? At the moment of the recording the definive order is not always known, so it would be necessary tot move the headers with the connected audio in the right order.

Actually I am recording with different microphones and use the whole tracks with and without speach on them. So every track is a mixture from speaking and not speaking. This makes cutting for me much easier but when we sit next to each other of course the microphone(s) which are not active also get some sound from the speaker. To improve sound, a noisegate feature would be a good thing.

thanks!

This could be useful if you would like to publish to your web services, a 'dropbox' derivate and to a local test folder at the same time.
In short, this means to make the export dialog available in the publish tab.

I wish there was an option to color code clips. That way it would be easier to identify splits you want to come back to.