I love to use the crossfade transition on PD12 (I usually go into "transitions" and insert it) but what annoys me is that it always crosses the sound as well. This can have several problems - 1) mixing the audio of one video with another when I don't want to, and 2) shifting all the audio after that point, which messes up subtitles/text inserted at a later point in the video.


This crossfade of the audio happens even if I unlink audio and video, and EVEN if I move the audio to a different track. All the video on that track after the fade is shifted, which makes it then overlap with the audio I dropped down to a second track. I have to manual put the audio back where it was, which is really annoying.

If I have the audio as one solid track and then crossfade the video, the shifting of the video makes the later video off synch with audio.

I've read several posts on how to do fades, including one on how to fade video but not sound: that one suggested putting the inserted video/image on another track. That works, but not for crossfade. What I get is a fade to black and then a fade into the second image.

One more note - I know one way to crossfade is to drag the image/video over the other, and down at the bottom of options is "crossfade." That used to be there, but seems to have disappeared for me. (Yes, and I have uninstalled and reinstalled PD12)

Is there a solution to this, or do I have to just keep fighting Power Director?

Thanks for any suggestions.