Hello IreneJ,

It's not immediately obvious, so you can be excused for being confused.

If PDR is open when you download the audio clips, they'll appear in your Media Library.



If PDR isn't open, the clips are stored at C:\Users\Public\Cyberlink\Downloaded Audio and can be imported from there, just as you'd import any other media.

In AudioDirector, it's a little more user friendly. From within ADR, you just open the Sound Clips Library and select "Downloaded".

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In previous versions of PowerDirector click the Media Content box down arrow and then click Downloaded to see them.

In PD17 click the right arrow to the right between the Library Title and Transition buttons to open Display the Explorer view. Click the gold Downloaded button and you will see all those DZ downloaded and installed sound clips. I had to find them myself.

Hope this helps...

Goodness me tomasc!

I'm glad you chimed in. I didn't think to open explorer view.

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I've been using PD since v7 back in 2008, and not once have I EVER thought to click that little arrow. WOW thanks for opening my eyes to "Explorer View!"
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Thank you all so much.
I have now , with your help located the ssound clips. Much appreciated

Quote If PDR isn't open, the clips are stored at C:\Users\Public\Cyberlink\Downloaded Audio and can be imported from there, just as you'd import any other media.

In AudioDirector, it's a little more user friendly. From within ADR, you just open the Sound Clips Library and select "Downloaded".

PIX

In every version of PowerDirector I have used since 2011, the Media Content selection window mimics exactly what is in the Explorer view as new features are added in each new version.

In PD17 two new features of Background music and Sound clips are added. The file location for those are exactly the same as what PIX posted above in separate subfolders for each and every individual clip. It is possible that the programmer thought Sound clip is the same as Downloaded and removed that selection as an oversight.

It looks like the OP and the three senior contributors that responded does not use the Explorer view as the Media Content selection window had the Downbloaded selection for at least the last 10 years.

The OP or other interest party could start a Cyberlink support ticket on this to add that Downloaded selection back in the Media Content selection box or have the Sound clip selection open both the Sound clips and Downloaded selections which I believe is what the programmer meant to do.

I will not write the support ticket for this.

Just a quick question about Audio Director. Should version 9 have come with my downloaded purchase of power director 17?

Thanks

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In every version of PowerDirector I have used since 2011, the Media Content selection window mimics exactly what is in the Explorer view as new features are added in each new version.

In PD17 two new features of Background music and Sound clips are added. The file location for those are exactly the same as what PIX posted above in separate subfolders for each and every individual clip. It is possible that the programmer thought Sound clip is the same as Downloaded and removed that selection as an oversight.

It looks like the OP and the three senior contributors that responded does not use the Explorer view as the Media Content selection window had the Downbloaded selection for at least the last 10 years.

The OP or other interest party could start a Cyberlink support ticket on this to add that Downloaded selection back in the Media Content selection box or have the Sound clip selection open both the Sound clips and Downloaded selections which I believe is what the programmer meant to do.

I will not write the support ticket for this.

Today (January 20, 2019) I started a support ticket on this. Ticket ID is CS001982079. If you don't take joy in the snow you'll have less joy in your life and the same amount of snow.

I received a response to my support ticket that basically just said, "Yep, that's the way it works, alright!"

It reminds me of when I did software support back in the 1980's for Wang Labs and I'd turn in a problem report to R&D. Invariably they came back marked FAD. - Functions As Designed.

Ah, well, it's a very minor annoyance and life goes on. If you don't take joy in the snow you'll have less joy in your life and the same amount of snow.

I was hoping that someone else, even the OP should write a support ticket for this. The PD Users Guide dated 2018-09-19 has been quietly changed and same date is still being used. The content on page 67 is different within days of my posting. I got the heads up from the PowerDirector Moderator on this.

Wang Labs did well selling their word processor workstation until IBM came along. Glad that you hopped on the pc bandwagon. lol

Quote I was hoping that someone else, even the OP should write a support ticket for this. The PD Users Guide dated 2018-09-19 has been quietly changed and same date is still being used. The content on page 67 is different within days of my posting. I got the heads up from the PowerDirector Moderator on this.

Wang Labs did well selling their word processor workstation until IBM came along. Glad that you hopped on the pc bandwagon. lol

Ha! Good find on the User's Guide change. It seems this thread may have rattled Cyberlink's cage a little more than I had suspected. It will be interesting to see what PD 18 looks like.

Yay! Someone remembers Wang Labs. There's a fascinating book called "Riding the Runaway Horse" that details their rise and fall. I'm sure it's long out of print but if you ever run across it, it is quite a story. BTW, I once won a big, prestigious award with them that gave me a huge number of "shares" in that quarter's profit sharing plan. Based on their average earnings and in today's dollars it would have amounted to around $30,000. For the first time in the history of their profit sharing plan they lost money that quarter. There wasn't a single dollar to share. I know all about their fall. I can laugh about it today...at the time not so much.

(Sorry if I've gotten off topic here. Back to PD.)

If you don't take joy in the snow you'll have less joy in your life and the same amount of snow.

Quote Ha! Good find on the User's Guide change. It seems this thread may have rattled Cyberlink's cage a little more than I had suspected. It will be interesting to see what PD 18 looks like.

Rattled a cage, I don't think so. Unfortunately the silent edit has been a common practice for this outfit. Nothing new, it was done at PD16, PD15…PD15 Guide last updated 7/2018. They don't rev it, anything, just a sly quiet edit and don't give the users a clue.

A private heads up from the PDM, what a disgraceful tact for the user base, at least post knowledge in a sticky note.

PD17 original doc when PD17 was released was 9/2018, current doc is 12/2018.

Jeff

Things have changed in the PD forums for the better now that we have a very active senior contributor who replies to almost every post. He encourages the OP to write a support ticket when an apparent bug is found, and The PowerDirector Moderator ask for the ticket number and follows up on it.

In this thread the OP did not write a support ticket. I notice that the PD17 UG is also incorrect, so I wrote a support ticket and PM the PDM about the UG. The response from support is “We have reported this concern to the related department for the User's Guide correction and will be published on CyberLink website.”

It was the PDM that followed up on this and all the other ones on this PD forum. This is a great service in my view and hopefully for the others who wrote a support ticket. It is not distasteful tact. I was waiting for the UG date to change which never did and appreciate his follow-up to let me know.