Last question: When editing the sermon audio, 90% of the time when I select an area to delete, Proclaim actually deletes audio shifted slightly to the right of my selection. During playback (in the editor) the yellow cue line is still over "dead" space when the next sentence starts playing. So, it seems that the graphical representation of the waveform is simply shifted to the right a little... just enough to make it VERY difficult to cut out coughs and throat clears.
There are several other things in the editor that I've experienced that can be heavy annoyances and really slow me down.
-While editing, it seemingly randomly starts playing from the beginning. Then I have to scroll to find where I left off and begin editing again.
-When highlighting a small area, the yellow triangles are almost overlapping. It's almost impossible to grab the right triangle to adjust it. Most times it moved the LEFT one instead. So, I move the left one out of the way, adjust the right and play it back several times to be sure it's ending in the right spot, then put the left side back where I had it and repeat. Once I'm sure, I hit DEL and play that portion to be sure the edit was successful.
-Scrolling through the wavform while zoomed in is VERY slow. If I click the arrows 3-4 times, I have to wait several seconds for the screen to catch up.
-The scrollbar is undiscernable from the rest of the UI. I could be trying to click on the playback triangle for a selection, and miss by a small amount and end up scrolling instead. It would probably limit my mistakes if the scroll bar was more visible. Better yet, move it out of the way a little more.
-This past week, I accidentally had a section of slides auto-advancing and didn't know until we were live. I scrambled to go into edit mode and remove the auto-advance, but it took a few seconds and it is stuck in the recorded, published version. I would love the ability to delete slides from the presentation AND the ability to slide the green dots to adjust the timing of the slides to be more accurate. I sometimes miss my cues to advance the slides and discover that I'm behind the pastor. Can't fix that for the live presentation, but it would be nice to change the timing before publishing.
Thank you for your attention to this - I've been holding back on asking and commenting on this and finally decided I need to get answers and suggestions submitted. Have a great night!
- Hey Stephen Switzer You mentioned "When editing and then deleting audio proclaim actually deletes audio slightly to the right. When trimming audio from your recording are you using the tool from the sermon recording menu to zoom in on your recording? I believe you are, but I'm having a tough time replicating this. --[When you said "while editing, it seemingly randomly starts playing from the beginning"] Assuming you are doing the following: Selecting a section to deleting and then "previewing " the audio (pressing the blue play button) then deleting which then deletes the yellow indicator of where you last left off - results in starting over next time you press play? (we should be able to fix this) You mentioned when "editing a small area" you were running into some disruptions. I think the best course of action would be for us to apply the ability to zoom in more to avoid this inconvenience? ( I can't promise we will, but I can bring it up) You mentioned "the scroll bar is indiscernible from the rest of our UI as well as it is to close to the play button. ( There are 2 play buttons - one at the top of the wave file and one at the bottom) This would be another request, but I could bring it up and see if we can change the opacity of the scroll bar to be more visible as well as potentially lowering the scroll bar? In the meantime using the play button above the wave file may be a work around for the time being? Your last point you talked about the auto advancing and the ability to edit slides. Did you ever go into edit mode? This can be toggled between edit/preview while you are still on air. Assuming you have a separate monitor set to "no slides" Also, thanks again for the awesome feedback. I'm sure we will be in touch with your reply back. Cheers!
- Thank you for the consideration and reply! Maybe I should have split these up into different comments, as responding to each individually is proving to be a little confusing. --Audio trimming: When I first start editing, the graphical display is spot on. However as I progress and remove more coughs and dead air spaces in the recording, the more likely it is to be off. It never seems to be more than 3mm off regardless of how much editing I do. Sometimes, it actually becomes accurate again, but that's RARE. Attached is Edit 1 and Edit 2. I highlighted a blank area (for demonstration purposes) and pressed the blue PLAY triangle. there was a little silence but 2-3 words from the right were included in my selection. I hit delete and took the second shot and you can see that it barely touched the blank area, but deleted 90% of the voice to the right of my selection! I was able to reproduce this by re-opening a published sermon, zooming all the way in and deleting a screen full of audio the scrolling to the right a little. On a side note, I many times have to select, delete and undo and try again. It would be AWESOME if Ctrl-Z would also re-select what I had selected prior to pressing Del. :) --Seeming random restarts at 0:0:0: I haven't been able to reliably reproduce this, but several times while editing I press the spacebar to resume playback and listen for the next thing to edit out... and about 10% of the time it starts over from the beginning. Your scenario is plausible, but not even that reproduced it for me. :( --Small area editing: In my screenshot you can also see my small selection. My thought is to remove 2 of the arrows - or have that an optional setting. We could have a triangle in the upper left and lower right. That way, you'd have to select from the top if you want to move the left side. Zooming in a little more could really help sometimes, too... but zooming in and out is painful. If I'm 40 minutes into the service, then zoom in, it doesn't always center the zoomed view around the yellow cue line - sometimes I end up 10 minutes in and have to scroll to find it. ---Scroll bar: The blue play button is the only one I can use to play a selection. If my had-eye coordination is off a little (touchscreen or mouse) I end up clicking the scrollbar instead of play. Making it more visible might help deter me from accidentally clicking there, but it's probably not the final fix for me. --Auto-advancing slides: Yes, I use edit mode all the time when online. My explanation was probably lacking, but this is what I did this time, too... but I had to click edit, select the slides I wanted to edit, and uncheck auto-advance. Meanwhile, the pastor was still talking and the service was recording with the slides advancing by themselves. I didn't turn this on intentionally, so it must have been a re-used slide that I kept duplicating. Anyway, there's no way to fix what happened in the live audience experience - it already happened, but it would be nice to remove the extra slides from the recorded version that published. As it stands, these extra slides are still there, and potentially confusing. Additionally, being able to grab the green dot and move them would be very beneficial to correct improper timing. --As long as we're taking about the editor, It'd be a real benefit to have a "silence" button that completely silenced a selection without actually deleting it. Again, THANK YOU for your time and attention to this discussion.