Edit clip keyframe. Its above the timeline when you click on the little page icon. You can do all one level or vary using keyframes ____________________________________

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Quote Edit clip keyframe. Its above the timeline when you click on the little page icon. You can do all one level or vary using keyframes

This looks like progress. When you say "You can do all one level" I haven't figured that out. Like on the wave form there is a little dot at the biginning and end and if I move one the other one doesn't move, so it's more like fading rather than the overall volume. If I'm in the middle of the wave form it puts a dot there too. Thanks

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Quote Edit clip keyframe. Its above the timeline when you click on the little page icon. You can do all one level or vary using keyframes

This looks like progress. When you say "You can do all one level" I haven't figured that out. Like on the wave form there is a little dot at the biginning and end and if I move one the other one doesn't move, so it's more like fading rather than the overall volume. If I'm in the middle of the wave form it puts a dot there too. Thanks

Meaning if you go to volume adjustment from this method you can set the volume to the same level across the entire clip. Or you can vary the volume however you wish by using keyframes. I prefer doing it this way instead of using the dots on the audio wave. They are too small for my liking. You are marking keyframes either way but doing it as described gives you much more precision.

Take a look at this thread. For a simple answer look at what Barry the Crab suggested. That is what I am describing.

https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/52193.page

And yes....I agree that volume control, whether it be on the timeline or even in Audio Director can be improved on greatly. Using little dots in the way that they behave is bizzar indeed.

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There were some major changes in audio between Power Director 15 and 16.

Audio ducking was introduced but one of the changes that occured is how to move those little "dots' One must hold down the CTRL key. More information on a pop up when you hold down the key and grab a dot. .
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Quote There were some major changes in audio between Power Director 15 and 16.

Audio ducking was introduced but one of the changes that occured is how to move those little "dots' One must hold down the CTRL key. More information on a pop up when you hold down the key and grab a dot.

Am I missing something here? What's the matter with the audio mixing room? Horizontal bar for Audio gain on the whole clip and project. Vertical bar for volume fine tuning. Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Nothing wrong. My suggestions were to continue along the method of keyframing which I believe the " dots " were supposed to accomplish. As a beginner getting a feel for keyframing helped me immensely. The sooner the better. ____________________________________

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Quote Nothing wrong. My suggestions were to continue along the method of keyframing which I believe the " dots " were supposed to accomplish. As a beginner getting a feel for keyframing helped me immensely. The sooner the better.

Hi GC

I wasn't suggesting that there was anything wrong with your suggestion. I was just suggesting what I thought would be the simplest method.

Robert Panny TM10, GH2, GH4,

Agreed.... ____________________________________

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Thanks for the comments. Having a master volume slider on the left side of each audio track is much better. Also good to have an effects button there. The fewer steps one has to take to do basic tasks is helpful, especially if you only occasionally use the program. I had an audio track with many split sections in it and didn't want to have to go to each section to adjust the volumes in case I didn't get them all the same. So I just ended up rendering the whole thing and then going back and working on the audio track. It would have saved time with a track volume control, a pretty standard feature in other editing programs.