Sometimes this happens. Not often but once in a while. Weird.. Although the audio plays fine.
Anybody know why this happens? Is it a bug?
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Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
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- Tesionman
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Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
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Re: Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
I'm sure you probably already know this, but that view displayed in your screenshot is when the computer is still analysing the audio in the background for the purposes of visual display of the waveform as seen in the soundbites that appear normal.Tesionman wrote:Sometimes this happens. Not often but once in a while. Weird.. Although the audio plays fine.
Anybody know why this happens? Is it a bug?
cheers
PS - DP 8.05 on OSX 10.8.5
DP places priority on recording and playing back of audio first which is why you can play the audio. If you hit shift and R, it will open up the background processing window, and if everything is normal then the tasks remaining to be completed in the tasks overview window will correspond with the soundbites there are appearing abnormally in your window.
It may be that you have inadvertently performed a task such as consolidating audio, possibly by hitting a combination of hotkeys. For example if you inadvertently hit shift, alt and M, any soundbites selected, will automatically be consolidated; i.e. DP will create new files from the files that are selected. In this instance it would do exactly as displayed in your picture; it would perform background analysis to create an overview of the waveform and whilst doing so would display the soundbites as shown in your picture.
Also, if everything is normal then one by one the odd looking soundbites will revert to the normal appearance as DP works through the background tasks
If this isn't the case, then it may be that it is a bug
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Re: Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
Thanks for the reply Sean.
But nope.. it stays like that. No background processing(already checked before posting this problem). I didn't merge anything.
But it plays fine. Its only graphical. so must be a bug of some sort.
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But nope.. it stays like that. No background processing(already checked before posting this problem). I didn't merge anything.
But it plays fine. Its only graphical. so must be a bug of some sort.
cheers
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Re: Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
You can force DP to re-analyze the waveforms by trashing the analysis files. It won't hurt anything. You'll just have to wait for DP to do it's thing. You can also try simply quitting and relaunching DP. Sometimes that triggers analysis. I don't know why, but every once in a while DP doesn't finish the analysis tasks and needs a little nudge.
Phil
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Re: Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
Thanks Phil. I merged the files and it resolved the situation! But its not the first time this happens.Phil O wrote:You can force DP to re-analyze the waveforms by trashing the analysis files. It won't hurt anything. You'll just have to wait for DP to do it's thing. You can't also try simply quitting and relaunching DP. Sometimes that triggers analysis. I don't know why, but every once in a while DP doesn't finish the analysis tasks and needs a little nudge.
Phil
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Re: Soundbite GUI weirdness!!!
I´ve had this happened more than once too. In different versions. I usually save as copying media to a new folder, then it rebuilds waveforms and the problem doesn´t repeat.
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