ZynewaveInteresting xis23. I had no idea Podium could do this 😆
ZynewaveGood suggestion. Not a high priority though, so you may have to remind me early next year. 😉
Zynewavethe splashscreen, with the black border, which makes me think of a mourning announcement.
Really? 😯 Anyone else feel depressed when they see the splash screen? 😕
Naturally I don’t make that connection. Is it because the background is greyish? Or is it the black border? What could be done to improve it?
I got tired of the old green colored icons and splash screen. The new design uses the brushed metal texture that was recently introduced in Podium.
ZynewaveI would like to see automatic crossfades but with the ability to further edit the crossfade curves as you show with the fade controls.
How I imagine automatic crossfade would work: When you drag a sound event to overlap another event on the same track, the fade in/out times of the two events will be set to the overlapping interval. The fade out curve of the first event will then be inversed and assigned as fade in curve of the second event. This crossfade will be applied as a separate edit in the undo history. If you don’t want the automatic crossfade you just press undo once. Pressing undo again will undo the event move.
ZynewavePerhaps if it was an option you could turn off/on in the window options?
If you don’t create any templates in the dialog, then the submenu won’t appear.
Zynewavewill there be a graphical way of doing this for instance just clicking on an audio clip and say dragging in a fade quickly via a drag box or with a key+click combo?
I haven’t implemented that yet, but that is the plan. Would it be sufficient to be able to drag the fade in/out times directly on the event? To edit the curve shape you would then need to open the properties dialog (Shift+Enter).
I was also considering extending the fade properties dialog with a listbox where you could create and manage defaults/templates. This list would then be available as a submenu when right-clicking the event, to quickly recall various curve shapes. But maybe that would be overkill?
ZynewaveZynewaveZynewaveZynewaveThe demo projects relies on a few third-party freeware plugins. You need to have these installed to be able to play the arrangements. If you look at the device list on the project start page, the plugins that were not found by Podium is highlighted with red icons. If you select all the “broken” mappings in the list and right-click the selection, you can use the “Search In File Folder” to let Podium search for the plugins on your HD.
ZynewaveI can create a PDF from a single or even mulitple files, web page (even directly from Internet explorer) so there should be no need for a second Indesign version of the Podium guide (as a PDF) maybe we misunderstood each other there, as after thinking it through there should be no need for Indesign if all that is needed is a high quality PDF.
That sounds like the best solution. I have never worked with InDesign or Acrobat, so I don’t know which tool is best for this job. Another thing that is missing in the current wiki to PDF setup, is a TOC with page number references. Maybe that can easily be auto-generated in Acrobat too?
Would there still be a HTML version with the Podium installer though?
No. The whole point of the work I have done with the wiki setup, is to avoid having to maintain the separate HTML guide.
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and I would depend on you to make the updates before I could include the PDF in a new release.
Another solution could be to remove the PDF files from the installer, and make them available as separate downloads. They are relatively large and take up considerable space in the installer. That way I don’t have to worry about the PDFs before each release, and you can update the guide whenever you have the time. Still, a lot of work for you 😉
Zynewavehe he….that may be where I can help you Frits…
Thanks for the offer. Podianer also has InDesign and has previously offered me help with this as well. But as I said, this could involve a lot of work. When the guide is more complete, I aim to update it before each release with the new features. To update a second version of the guide in another format (InDesign) would take time, and I would depend on you to make the updates before I could include the PDF in a new release.
If you want to experiment with this, you can download the fullsize screenshots in the getting started wiki page. Clicking the screenshots in the wiki guide will open them first in a semi-size window, and another click opens them in fullsize. The other screenshots in the ‘old’ parts of the guide I don’t have in fullsize.
ZynewaveHi Eric,
I’m glad you like the general idea behind Podium. There’s hope for the future then. Let me know if you find anything that you cannot work around. Btw. I have just updated the Podium demo.
Frits
ZynewaveSome issue on exporting the PDF maybe?
As I mentioned in another topic, I now maintain the Podium guide and tutorials on the wiki, where I’ve set up a link that will take all the wiki guide pages and present them in a single printer-friendly page. I currently use PDFCreator which is an open source printer driver that can print to PDF files. This setup makes it very easy for me (and other volunteers) to update the guide and tutorials on the wiki, and then simply print the latest version to PDF before each new Podium release. I think the coarse graphics are a result of this process. The graphics are available in hires in the wiki, but the conversion to html pages and then to PDF probably causes the graphics to be resized. There are some DPI settings in the PDF printer driver that may improve this. I haven’t tried this yet.
If anyone knows of a way to create higher-quality PDF files, I’m all ears. What is important to me is that I can generate the PDFs automatically from the wiki contents. It would be too much work if I have to cut and paste wiki changes into a dedicated PDF program like Adobe InDesign.