On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:58 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:19:56AM -0500, plutek infinity wrote: > > greetings! > > > > i've just compiled the latest git of non-stuff and am looking forward to > > exploring! i have just a few questions: > > > > 1. the help html opens in Geany, rather than a browser... is that a > > system preference, or something coded in non? > > I'd guess that's a system preference. >
Correct. I think you'll find that x-www-browser points to Geany (whatever that is) and not the browser you want... You'll have to figure out how your distro manages that and change it. > > 2. crossfades between overlapping regions are entirely manual? and > > there's no ability to make or adjust a fade-out entirely within the > > portion of an earlier region which is overlapped by a later region, > > right? > > I've found that dragging fades doesn't always work the way I'd expect, > but it can be worked around by editing the history file. The format of the > history file is very simple and is one of non-timeline's best design > features > IMO. > Yes, cross fades are manual, but they're easy enough to set by pointing the mouse and hitting F3 or F4. As to overlap... yeah, if you have overlapping regions you may find it hard to point the mouse at the right one... Nobody said you had to have overlapping regions on the same track though (some NLE's don't allow overlaps at all, so all cross fades involve track juggling)... Or that you couldn't move things around, set the fades and move them back... As to dragging--fades don't have handles in the GUI so I'm not sure what ya'll mean by that. > > > 3. there's no ability to switch the waveform display to show logarithmic > > waveforms?... it's difficult to deal with low-level signals, it seems. > > I usually deal with this by normalising low level signals. If you're > working with floating point files there's no problem with clipping as > long as the overall signal is below 0dBFS when it reaches the DAC. > Agreed, normalization is the correct technique to use here. Not a problem. > > The alternative is to edit the file with an external program (I use > mhwaveedit). > > > 4. it is possible to drag the right edge of a region beyond the end of > > the existing audio. then, i can't find a way to snap the region end back > > to the original audio length. also, curiously, when the region is longer > > than the existing audio, i see repeats of the waveform, but increasingly > > squished horizontally with each repeat to the right. also, these repeats > > show at some zoom levels, but not at others, and nothing plays beyond > > the original audio. is this all intentional? > I haven't seen this, but I do find the GUI sometimes gets into a strange > state. Ctrl-L to redraw usually fixes it. > If you find a display bug, please report it in the issue tracker. Non-looped regions should not be displaying any waveform beyond the end of the clip. The reason regions can be longer than the clip they refer to is to allow looping. > > > 5. is there a way to change the zoom focus to something other than the > > play cursor? > Like what? > > > > ...i think that's it for now! > > > > thanks for NON; there is boatloads of stuff in there to absolutely love! > > :) i'm just struggling with a few things here and there.... > > Since switching from Ardour to Non about a year ago I haven't looked back. > The learning curve was steep at first - a lot of stuff isn't documented in > the manual, but can usually be worked out from the menus (and if not there > are a lot of informative posts in the mail list archive). > > John > > >
