Exporting for Mixing

[Gale Andrews]

I presume that fixing the original problem of providing a way to "mix and render a selection", so that we can then export leading silence by default, would provide an acceptable solution?

Presumably it would for Richard Ash, but there are two camps for what is reasonable export behaviour for leading white space, so perhaps that should be an option anyway. I don't know if we'd want such an option to apply to render as well as export - I can see Richard's point about Mix and Render leaving leading white space out of account.

Mix and Render of a region seems more of a fringe feature to me. Would you (Steve) find it useful?


Gale

[steve]

Mix and Render of a region seems more of a fringe feature to me. Would you (Steve) find it useful?

Yes, quite often, but more importantly, it would provide a simple way to accommodate the needs of both those that want leading white-space rendered as silence, and those that want to omit leading white-space. "Normal" mix and render would render the entire track including leading white-space. Ctr+A then render selection, would render the entire track omitting leading white-space (because it's not selected). Click on the track control panel to select just one track without leading white-space. No need for special case IF/OR/ELSE conditional logic, just one standard method that supports both camps.

For exporting (and Export Multiple), I think there would need to be an option to omit leading white-space - probably a checkbox.

[Gale Andrews]

Mix and Render of a region seems more of a fringe feature to me. Would you (Steve) find it useful?

Yes, quite often, but more importantly, it would provide a simple way to accommodate the needs of both those that want leading white-space rendered as silence, and those that want to omit leading white-space. "Normal" mix and render would render the entire track including leading white-space. Ctr+A then render selection, would render the entire track omitting leading white-space (because it's not selected). Click on the track control panel to select just one track without leading white-space. No need for special case IF/OR/ELSE conditional logic, just one standard method that supports both camps.

The thing that worried me about that is the behaviour change. Now you can disregard the selection (which you might want to retain) when rendering the whole track, just as you can disregard the selection when using File > Export Audio to export the whole track.

For exporting (and Export Multiple), I think there would need to be an option to omit leading white-space - probably a checkbox.

Yes I still think so. But think the defaults for Export and Render should treat leading white space the same.

Gale

[waxcylinder]

Gale, have you already recorded Charlie's vote - and if so can I then archive this?

Peter

[Gale Andrews]

Gale, have you already recorded Charlie's vote - and if so can I then archive this?

Yes, I've archived this now.


Gale