On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:44:27 -0700 Rich Stivers <r...@stivers-bros.com> wrote:
> When RdImport --segue-level is working correctly, does the value > specified with --segue-level correspond to the same scale as the > level indicator in RdLibrary Edit Audio? > See attached screen capture. < Well, attachments don't work here (you have to post it somewhere else and put a link to that here), but my answer is yes--roughly. I'm not sure what scale the RDLibrary-Edit Audio uses, but in the US, most audio scales are not linear, especially in representation. Let's just say that playing very near the 'start segue' marker where RDImport put that marker (when it was working correctly) does not light the audio meter at all, so I assume the level there is lower than -30. As I mentioned at one point, our station is not into overlapping songs, except at the very, very end of a fadeout. Barring turntable rumble or scratches from vinyl cuts, that point is conveniently right at the very point where the graphic representation in Edit Audio disappears from thickness to the bare skinny base line. If the RDImport setting for segue markers is accurate, then that level is -40. The biggest part of our library is, thankfully, already imported, but I sure hope it is possible to get to the bottom of this, because there are about 4,000 songs from before 1955 yet to import. I sure can't face doing those manually. Interesting observation--until rock and roll became commonplace around 1960, 99% of recorded songs ended cold with a musical 'button'. Once into the 1960's, most songs end with a slow fade, and that continues to this day. Making a segue sound good with those fadeouts is a much tougher proposition than with the cold endings. Unfortunately, I cannot testify that some change related to the OS is not the cause, because I use the same computer for video editing with Cinelerra and I am constantly upgrading both OS and software because there is a lot of work going on with Cinelerra these days. If Rivendell is chosen as our automation, then that system will be locked down from changes. But right now, all I know is that RDImport segue markers were working perfectly in v2.10.2 and now in v2.10.3 on the same Mint 17 laptop, they are not working acceptably at all. --Chuck W. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
