My next Director project

Hi community folks.
Don't know if you can be interested in this, but I'd like to show you our next project, a Mac (and in the next future Windows) application dedicated to podcasters to help them cleanup audio and auto-sync multiple recording tracks.
Here's a preview of the interface:
PodCleaner: interfaccia utente | Video DiggaZ
And here's the first part of the user manual:
Come si usa PodCleaner? [prima parte] | Video DiggaZ
Both pages are in Italian but you can easily translate them to your language using Google... ;-)
Don't know why I'm sharing this to you.
Maybe to let the community feel that Director isn't already gone... :-)
Thanks.

Thank you.
We developed a lot of frameworks/middleware to bring PodCleaner to life: from file handling to audio post-processing (to the single sample), to a solid library that handles serial numbers and licenses.
It will be a 3-5 $ application, but we wanted to experiment a theoretical way to do something that is secure.
We don't hope to get even near to the break-even point, we did it to challenge ourselves. :-)

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>
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Cheers! Happy troubleshooting !!! Dinesh S. Rai - MSFT Enterprise Project Management Please click Mark As Answer; if a post solves your problem or Vote As Helpful if a post has been useful to you. This can be beneficial to other community members reading
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