Fix studio sound!
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Canny AI
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Bring back studio sound
Dayan Dragan
From 0-100% to 0 OR 1? So basically ON or OFF? It completely destroys my audio on every project. BIG L.
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Clay Collins
Completely agree it used to be so much better. And this is also this weird "room noise" sound that is terrible. Why did they make it worse?
Canny AI
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Improve studio quality!
Neil Tranter
This mostly works but then every so often it just cuts off half of a word, even at 50% strength. Please make this usable.
Canny AI
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Studio Sound Improvement
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Crysta
"Studio sound" makes some words sounds "lispy" like it cuts off the pronunciation of the word. The audio quality is great but some of the speakers word pronunciation is distorted making the speaker sound lisp/distorted. Please fix. Thank you!
Canny AI
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My comments on the latest release
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Jim Love
You have done some good things, some are great, but some miss the boat.
Great:
- the eyes function is superb. I wear glasses but have no problems.
Not so great
- your transcripts have gotten way worse. There are lots of words no-one has said and much more frequent errors than when I first started. I used to admire how accurate the transcripts were. Now, editing by words is much more "hit and miss" because the text is often so far off
- Studio sound - are you using a lot of compression on this? I've just started to hear sybalance (sounds like lisping) and I'm a trained announcer. The sound is not as crisp as it should be. I used to work with a sound engineer who was blown away by the fact that I would give him your studio sound. I wouldn't do that now. It's good, but if I have to over crisp my diction to try to overcome the sybalance it introduces, it sounds artificial.
I'm scared to use the feature that shortens gaps anymore. It wiped out a part of a sentence yesterday. You can't regenerate what it took out. Why? Why not have the gap shortening be "non-destructive" so you can say, "that was a mistake."
And your editing that allows you to select the "best take" is great, but it's so clumsy to use that I hesitate to use it. One one hand, it does what the "reduce gap" should do, it crosses out what it's taking out and I think you can go in and restore what it has removed. But why can't you toggle between that view (the markup) and the cleaned up text? It would be so great to be able to just read the text without all those markups and make sure it makes sense.
- When you add a file and its a new level and not included in the script (which I do frequently) you click and you think nothing happens. I added and subtracted multiple duplicates because it doesn't tell you its added the file.
- If you add a sound clip you can click on the point where you want to add it, paste and it goes from that point forward. But if you take a picture and click on a spot you want to add it, and add a new level, it doesn't go from the point you add it onward. It fills the whole level and you have to clip it.
Features you need
- It took me forever to figure out what levels to use on sound. I think that there ought to be some easy way to adjust your voices so that they are at the "right level" for podcasting. I've figured out how to do it, but it took me a while and a lot of reading to figure it out.
In general, you've taken this product to 85% of what it should be but failed on making it intuitive. I think your customers are people like me who aren't sound engineers or editors but want to do a great job.
Hire a user experience person or co-opt some of your audience and watch us edit using this so you can really see what we do. If you did, I think you'd have a different approach.
Introducing new features
I love new features, but I want stuff that works. I have an hour approximately to get my daily podcast edited and up on Libsyn and YouTube. Anything that gets in the way of that is a killer. So you implemented that last version mid week and I had to struggle to figure out where things went and how it worked. Instead of an hour, I was 5 to 6 hours of trying to get something up. I just thanked my lucky stars that this was mid week when I was doing an 8 minute podcast. If it had been the weekend edition, which is 40 minutes in length and I have two of them to edit and release, I would have been in tears.
Why you can't have a better means of launching, I don't know.
Also, consider your training. Frankly, the two kids who do your videos are nice and cute, but they are ill prepared and not really good at showing someone how to use the software. I attend these sessions only to hear that young man act surprised that something isn't working and to whip through things that I'm trying to figure out. More prep, a slower pace and some attention to online instruction would be a big help.
Please take this as constructive criticism. I like your software and as a tech journalist, I'm not a neophyte at using software or reviewing it.
You have a solid product with some great features. Don't ruin it.
Gabe Michalski
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We have fixed a number of bugs related to this, so hopefully it is no longer occurring for you. If it is, please let our Support team know: https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/10337720480653-Contact-Descript