Re: [Audacity-devel] New P2 (?) "Reverse does not reverse clip boundaries"

[Vidyashankar V. <vid...@gm...>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Gale Andrews <ga...@au...> wrote:
>
> | From James Crook <cr...@in...>
> | Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:41 +0000
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] New P2 (?) "Reverse does not reverse clip   boundaries"
> > It makes logical sense for timeline changing effects to be applicable to
> > labels too.
>
> I can't easily think of a case where you would want the labels
> to stay put when reversing audio. So definitely pragmatic.
> Logical? Well if you realise that if you click on the label track
> alone and can't reverse it, maybe it doesn't seem quite logical
> for labels to move when linking is off. Which doesn't mean to
> say we shouldn't do it, but that the Manual must make this
> exception clear.
>
> So are labels moving when linking is off also in the case where
> part of the track has a timeline changing effect applied to it?
>
> Are we sure all timeline changing effects actually do move the
> labels with linking off, in time for 2.0?
>

I checked some timeline changing effects like change speed, change
tempo, sliding time scale, truncate silence.
With linking off, none of these effects operate on labels even with
the label track selected. So to maintain consistency, we should
probably let the reverse behaviour be as is for now. (i.e. it will
reverse labels only when linking is on)

Of course, we can try to make sure that such effects operate on labels
when the label track is selected and linking is off. But considering
our aim to release 2.0 by december, I feel that we can spend more time
looking at existing P2's.

If this is agreed upon, we can make a note of this and work on it post-2.0.

Vidyashankar