Re: Crossfading in Campcaster Web
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    AFAIK, that feature has never existed, so I'm not sure how it got in the
    manual! Let's remove it from the manual so as to not confuse people.


    On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Daniel James <daniel@64studio.com> wrote:

    > Hi Paul,
    >
    > According to the user manual, when creating playlists in Campcaster Web,
    > there is a grey horizontal bar between playlist items, which is where
    > crossfade times are set.
    >
    > Using the current 1.4.0-beta4 release, I'm not seeing the grey Fades
    > line between playlist items in Campcaster Web, or the Change Fades
    > button shown in this old screenshot here:
    >
    >
    > http://en.flossmanuals.net/floss/publish/Campcaster/rsrc/Cam pcaster/1172340145_9web_playlist_editor.png
    >
    > so it looks like this feature has been removed in 1.4.x.
    >
    > Should I open a bug ticket to put this feature back, or is the intention
    > that crossfade times should be set automatically? As the manual points out:
    >
    > "Note: Our recommendation is to avoid any cross fading in news programs.
    > You should leave your voice and talking blocks with a clean start and
    > end. It is also recommendable to use offered cross fade mix values only
    > in the musical parts of the program."
    >
    > Would it be more sensible to assign crossfade values automatically using
    > preferences settings based on audio file metadata? For example, items
    > tagged as Speech might have a zero seconds crossfade, where as items
    > tagged as Music have a two second crossfade.
    >
    > Cheers!
    >
    > Daniel
    >

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  • Vote Up0Vote Down Daniel JamesDaniel James
    Posts: 844Member, Sourcefabric Team
    Hi Paul,

    > AFAIK, that feature has never existed, so I'm not sure how it got in the
    > manual!

    I've found a few references to it:

    http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CC-404

    > Let's remove it from the manual so as to not confuse people.

    Sure, I can do that.

    For the future, do you think users need crossfades in scheduled content,
    based on metadata for audio type (e.g. news: zero seconds, interview:
    zero seconds, music: two seconds)?

    Cheers!

    Daniel
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Paul BaranowskiPaul Baranowski
    Posts: 389Member, Administrator, Sourcefabric Team
    On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Daniel James <
    campcaster-dev@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:

    >
    > For the future, do you think users need crossfades in scheduled content,
    > based on metadata for audio type (e.g. news: zero seconds, interview:
    > zero seconds, music: two seconds)?
    >

    I think our users would be the ones to answer that, but it certainly sounds
    like a good idea.

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