This is really a moan about what I perceive to be the general design philosophy at Cyberlink. I've just completed a small project without any problems but I found when playing back the finished DVD that the sound track was a bit over-loud, by which I mean I had to set the TV volume quite a bit lower than for broadcast material.

I obviously wanted to lower the audio volume equally across the entire timeline but PowerDirector 9 does not provide any facility to facilitate this rather obvious requirement. I'd be interested to know if any of the later versions do. The only work-around I could find was to produce to a file, load that onto the timeline, use the Audio Mixing Room to change the volume then produce again using SVRT to avoid re-rendering the video.

My old editor included a facility to change the base gain on each audio track. I just wish Cyberlink would concentrate their efforts on providing useful facilities like this instead of lots of flashy effects, most of which probably never get used by the vast majority of users.

Ok, rant over. Regards,
Mike

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