Ty Ford wrote: Steve, Spoken like a faithful but beleaguered obstructionist but not helpful for the users in the long run. |
Don't understand what you're talking about - but there again, I don't think you do either...
You've proposed a 'solution' that could probably make things worse, not better and you're calling me an obstructionist? You want help and explanations? Okay, here are some:
There are fundamental problems here. The first problem is that the documentation about CD writing is at best sparse, and at worst downright confusing. And the second problem stems from this - it doesn't appear to be made clear anywhere that you can't burn a CD direct from multitrack view without mixing it down first. Nor does it explain why this is, but I can explain the roots of it.
The background is quite straightforward, really. When you play back a multitrack mix, you're playing a bunch of files into a mixer and streaming the result direct to your sound device. Chances are you're working in 32-bit as well. What you haven't got at that point is a real 16-bit stereo 44.1k file for each track, and without this you can't get any CD writer to work (you need the file so that things like buffer under-run protection can function). Now whilst I suppose that it would be possible to persuade Audition to work all this detail out for you in the background, and produce these files, working out their durations from the timeline markers - which is what it will do with 32-bit not 44.1k files in Edit view - the devs appear to have taken the view that doing this from unmixed-down files is a jump too far, and not what people would want to do anyway.
From the above, I can only conclude that this isn't true, and that people do want to do this. And it raises a number of issues. What's fundamentally going on here isn't just a layout issue - the command structure is there, yes - but to make the CD-writing commands work, the devs have to decide how much work they are prepared to do in the background for you. But this is in part constrained by another issue, which is that Audition has now got to conform to an Adobe 'institutionalised' layout, and work in a very similar way to programs like Premiere. This puts different types of menus, with different options on them, in different places, and because this is audio, a video-style layout isn't intuitive for CD production, no.
To be fair, CD writing is probably the biggest victim of this, and it does need some further consideration, I think. As does Adobe's policy on providing help files and manuals. I understand that there are significant cost implications to this though, and 'minimalism' is helping to keep the product costs down.
The bottom line though, is that every time a new Audition version has come out over the last few iterations, fundamental things have been changed, and sometimes not for the better. But if you don't do this, then you can't innovate the product. Your feeling that things have been 'tacked on' isn't a correct way of looking at it at all - far from it, in fact. With CS5.5 a new shell was built, and the intention has been to add things to this - and it's still happening. Some things work better than others, and at present CD writing is one that needs some careful thought, apparently.
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Also, to clear up one other thing that isn't clear in the above posts, no you don't need to include a marker at the start and end of a file if you don't want those sections of it to be turned into ranges. But if you want to include them and turn them into ranges, then you do - and it's always been like that, whatever version you've had.
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