Nugen Audio has announced its Jotter note taking and collaboration software, a time code-linked annotation tool that allows engineers and mixers to collaborate with each other and directly with clients, to and from anywhere in the world.
‘In audio, it’s easy to get lost in the ideas you have for editing, timing and automation,’ says Nugen Audio Product Specialist, Freddy Vinehill-Cliffe. ‘With Jotter, you can stay organised with notes and to-do lists inside your DAW, right on the project timeline. Whether you need a more straightforward way for clients to share suggested changes or you’d simply like to keep your workflow more organised, Jotter can help.’
Initially a ‘stealth’ product for Nugen subscribers who responded to the company’s annual survey, Jotter is proving to be a useful tool for music producers and film sound editors. In addition to the fully licensced plug-in that can be integrated directly into Pro Tools or other DAWs, the Jotter software is available as a free standalone version that includes the same management tools and can be used by clients and other collaborators.
Included among the collaborative tools is the ability for a client to load the latest mix of a song into the standalone Jotter app, add notes throughout the file and then export the notes to send to the mixing engineer. This file can then be imported into the engineer’s instance of Jotter, whether the standalone app or the plug-in version, to display the client’s feedback, locked to the exact positions on the project timeline.
The notes can be accessed either in Waveform or List view and can additionally be exported as a CSV with notes from each session for a more traditional approach. With the Waveform method, a user can zoom in or out on the audio track to add, find, delete or move the individual notes, with easy-to-use buttons. In List view, users can click on a time code note to jump to that position in the Waveform and toggle a ‘checklist’ to help track completed changes. This feature can also be filtered by status to better maintain the workload.
With this release, Nugen Audio is also rolling out its first accessibility features for users with visual impairments, such as screen reader support and keyboard shortcuts. Screen reader support reads aloud anything the user is interacting with and announces options for actions with those components. With the keyboard shortcuts, users can bypass the interface completely as it links most functionality to shortcuts that correspond to buttons on the screen. These accessibility functions will provide blind or visually impaired users with the ability to navigate the Jotter plug-in more easily. Nugen Audio plans to release these features in future updates to its existing solutions.
More: www.nugenaudio.com
