But if Olive is really geared towards the true pro-grade workflow then audio needs to be treated as its own entity. Normalizing is not a huge piece and could probably be done inside the NLE. I could have mentioned another 20x of sub-par FOSS DAWs but really the only two that are prograde are Ardour and Non. (As seen on their homepage track labeled 'Vocals') However, Ardour is where I'm biased as well.
Ardour is now used in several of the top studios in the world.īetter to work within the cosmos of open source software than try to reinvent everything in a vacuum and become like every other bloated NLE on the market. (Non DAW might compile on Windows and OSX but I don't know of any success stories.) It would make more sense to allow export and import of audio to these amazing pieces of software which have MUCH better audio editing facilities. The best open source cross platform audio workstations are Ardour, LMMS, and Audacity. Olive isn't a compositor or a title editor or a script management suite or a digital audio workstation. The thing we should really be thinking about is interoperability with other programs that do other things well. Foley alone could produce 50+ tracks for a single scene.
If we're really looking to the pro-grade users there is always a separate workflow for audio. Better not to try to do everything audio inside of Olive itself.
