Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on concepts for a new export dialog in Ardour. cool! > I would like to hear of your needs regarding final mixdown > /export using any software, not just Ardour. I know I'm the trouble maker, but if you ask.. > - Do you export once in the end, or do you do tests in > between? export once when finished; then usually bounce the same with different export-options.. Sometimes there's a preliminary mixdown or rare "exchange-exports" (bounce all tracks and re-import as new project) > - Do you work with stereo and/or multi-channel? stereo and 5.1 (in my case: 6 mono output tracks) > - What are your targets: CD, DVD, Web? > - File-types: WAV, Flac, Ogg, MP3? AIFF - the next man is a mac ;-) > - Bits and sampling rates you need? 48000kHz - 16 and 24 bits. > - Do you or would you like to export to several formats at > once? yes. > If yes, which exactly? i usually export 16 bit and a 24 bit AIFFS @48kHz sometimes various wav file formats for easy-exchange, hard to be specific here. dep. on project: lame helps me with 192kbit/s high-quality mp3 and oggenc does the rest. For rare CD productions: obviously 16bit, 44.1kHz wav :o > - Do you know of outstanding solutions in any application? > - What problems do you run into? > - Wishlist items? It would be nice to have an export mode to glue mastered [ardour] sessions together for making seamless continuously playing CDs of separate song-sessions! (select overlay/x-fade tracks? , graphical cue edit ?, no more hand-tweaking .toc files!) - there's surely some software to aid that purpose already that you can build on. Also it would be great if the A/V offset could be (optionally) written in the file's header when exporting eg. WAV files. - I've made a similar feat. request on ardour-dev and there's something already in the queue for importing file's offsets - but that's not due before the post-MIDI-merge. > - If you use Jamin, do you feed it with multitrack material > or rather with mixdowns? i rarely use jamin and if i do then as last stage post ardour's master out (after the mixdown). - I sometimes use jack-rack for multitrack material in a bus, works just fine.
