Drive video effect off audio track level

ControlGroup

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Apr 24, 2023 16:19

I use PowerDirector 21 to produce recordings of my group's weekly game sessions. I recently switched from embedding video of the players to only showing their tokens, and I'd like to highlight each token whenever the represented player is speaking. I have each player's audio in its own track, so I'd like to be able to drive a visual effect per track based on its level.

Anyone know of a good way to do that?

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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Apr 24, 2023 16:48

I don't know of any way to do that automatically.

I'd suggest using a frame or arrow or other object to highlight the speaking person's token and manually placing that on the bottom track. You'll need to make a copy to highlight individual each player, then place the appropriate one as the speaker players change.

You might find it easiest to place all the highlight objects for Player 1 whenever they're talking, then switch to the next player so you'll always have the correct highlighting object in the clipboard

ControlGroup

Newbie Joined: Aug 20, 2022 14:23 Messages: 2 Offline

Apr 24, 2023 17:17

Quote I don't know of any way to do that automatically.

I'd suggest using a frame or arrow or other object to highlight the speaking person's token and manually placing that on the bottom track. You'll need to make a copy to highlight individual each player, then place the appropriate one as the speaker players change.

You might find it easiest to place all the highlight objects for Player 1 whenever they're talking, then switch to the next player so you'll always have the correct highlighting object in the clipboard

Bummer - but thanks for the answer! Unfortunately, it's five hours of video every week, six audio tracks, and just a thing I do in my spare time for fun; placing the effect manually is a bit more tedium than I'm willing to take on.

Thanks again!