Re: [Audacity-devel] introduction and eye candy
A free multi-track audio editor and recorder
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From: Anthony A. O. <ai...@gm...> - 2003-10-25 13:29:47
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:15:47 -0500, gregg griffin wrote: >Hi All, >My name is Gregg and I am a media designer. I have really gotten to love audacity and would like to contribute what I can. I have done a lot of U.I. design in my career and would love to help out audacity if you all would not mind. I have worked on similar projects before like the open source 3D modeler wings3d. Anyway, here is a quick mockup for audacity... http://www.creationtheory.net/g/images/ntrfcweb.gif I tried to make some aspects a little cleaner. play controls are grey if unavailable blue if available and red if active. Tell me what you think. -------- I must say, the layout is a definit improvement IMO. The tools are now nicely in one row, which realy helps. Nice work on the buttons too. The upper shine's a bit too much, wouldn't you say ? Might I suggest a less obvious change for playback. We've got volume automation, which needs to be improved and will no doubt, and sooner or later we're going to have automation for panning. Do not let people edit automation of two or more parameters or more in one track display. Vegas of Sony(formerly Sonic Foundry) tried this, and it's a catastrophy for editing. Anyway, this is a design question to be discussed when people are actualy working on it. But, the faders will be moving to the volume automation, which I think is pretty neat. However, drawing a damn fader takes up too much CPU and we're native all the way, so here's my suggestion for fader movement for automation playback. When in playback, and automation is being used(later we can add autmoation read/write/touch/trim modes), the volume slider turns in to a peak meter type of display, which shows the volume of the track and(if autmoation is used) a BLACK two or one pixel-wide line that shows the volume parameter changing. This is much less visual clutter than our thick(usable) slider handles. For future panning automation I'd simlpy draw a nice two-pixel-wide line. Tony |