An issue with the "main volume levers" in build 2330

Anonymous

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Dec 17, 2010 16:52

Hi forum,
Aside some other "battlefields", where I'm in heavy in-fight with PD9, there is a quite curious bug with the sound levers.

When opening the Audio Mixing Room you'll see the volume levers for clips (the vertical sliders) and for tracks (the horizontal levers below the volume digits, just above the fade-in and fade-out buttons.
In most cases you might not ever have touched them, but they are - no: were! - quite handy, re-doing major volume settings on a nearly finished project: You may reduce or increase the main volume of a whole track, if e.g. speech is too low or music is too loud.

Now for the bug:

Create a simple project.
It should contain at least 1 video clip in video track #1 and an MP3 file (I have not tested other formats) in the music track.
Open the Audio mixing room - don't touch any lever, just take a look - should be like [snap0017]
Save your project.
Choose "new project"
Choose "recent files" and re-open the project.
Open the Audio mixing room - it should look unchanged.
Now edit your project - e.g. add a second clip, separate sound from video and remove the sound track from the second clip.
Now move one of the two main volume levers to any position aside the center (50%) position - like in [snap0018]
Save, close and re-open your project
Open Audio Mixing Room and take a look.
I've done it several times.
Sometimes it looks as in [snap0019] - the lever has jumped to the max.left = 0 position.
In other cases the lever is put back to the 50% position.
In NO case the former position of the lever was saved.


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Cranston

Senior Contributor Location: USA Joined: Aug 17, 2007 02:26 Messages: 1667 Offline

Dec 17, 2010 19:04

Hi Mike,

I precisely followed your steps twice (using 4 separate clips and 2 separate MP3 files).
But I could not replicate your error. Upon re-opening each searate test project, the horizontal volume adjustment/slider did not move as shown in your attachment, but remained and appeared exactly where I last set it.

Hope you get it worked out.

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Anonymous

Dec 17, 2010 19:39

Maybe you should reproduce ALL conditions and use a 64bit OS.
Here's a (low-quality) screenshot-video to proove.
Michael

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pjc3

Senior Member Location: Australia Joined: May 29, 2010 19:33 Messages: 247 Offline

Dec 17, 2010 20:06

Sorry but I also have tried to reproduce problem and cannot.

As you probably know just adjusting the audio levels and no other editing does not result in changes being saved (this bug is known). You need to get the "*" to appear on your project name before audio changes are registered. Panasonic SD9, Panasonic TM700, Panasonic SD600, GoPro HD Hero.

Anonymous

Dec 18, 2010 03:08

That is an interesting observation!
Moving these, what I call 'main volume levers' do not invoke the "edited" status of a project!
I just gave it a new try - THAT is reproducible for me, too.
But still, no matter whether I have the * at the project name or not when saving, as soon as I re-load the project, the lever settings are as described: Either put to 0%, when the lever was left of 50%, or reset to 50% when it was right of that position (that's my current impression).

Michael.

Anonymous

Dec 18, 2010 10:54

New learning on my problem:
I can be takes as sure, that so-called 'third party' software can NOT be made responsible for the volume lever problem.
I made a complete new installation of Win7 on my system, and directly after updating the graphic card drivers (and the automatic updates for Win7 itself) I installed PD9.
I used the trial version (fresh download from CL site).
And I ran the procedure as described above.
Only difference now: No matter to what position I set the levers, it was NOT stored.
Each time I re-opened the test project, they have returned to the 50% position.
Curiosly enough, they were NOT positioned to the 0% position, as before.
So it may be a matter of
a) the german version of Win7
b) my hardware configuration (see below).
Except anybody else can reproduce this effect.

Michael.

Anonymous

Dec 25, 2010 07:14

Latest investigations turned out, the whole problem lies at a completly different item!
It's the behaviour of the "save project" button!
When choosing this option from the menu or the floppydisk symbol and you have NOT changed anything in your project, PD9 WON'T SAVE the thing!
You will have to do 'anything' so that the project name has its asterisk added in the PD9 window frame:
project.pds -> project.pds*
Only NOW PD9 will REALLY save the whole thing.

That - in my opinion - is a rather odd behaviour. Normally (and I'm dead sure it still was so with PD8 ) I expect a program to save my work EVERY TIME I hit the "save" button. And not that the program decides just to PRETEND saving when I did not - maybe by coincidence, maybe intentionally - change anything since the last (real) saving.

And this is the end of THIS thread.

Michael.