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Edge Enhancement is a tool I use very regularly to clean up smartphone camera videos in poor lighting situations. Not sure why it's buried under "Color". I can see the benefit of making it keyframe-specific, but for my workflow, the old way was just fast and effective. The downside to keyframe-based use is that if I'm clicking around for reference points and make any adjustments to the setting, that adjustment only applies to that keyframe going forward, when I want it to apply to the whole clip. While I do appreciate the other improvements with the latest version, it would be a time-save for me to switch back to the prior version just to quickly use this feature regularly.
Same with the video opacity. It was super-easy to create opacity keyframes on-the-fly along the timeline, and having the line along the track made it easier to keep up with what's going on when editing multiple tracks. In my case, each track is a different angle of the same event. Not having that visual reference right in front of me makes multi-cam editing very daunting.
I wish the Audio Sync feature worked in the main timeline, rather than encapsulated within a plugin window. I have several clips of the same event from different angles, and I want to be able to punch-in/out and PIP between them, and apply color corrections and effects per clip to better match different source cameras, and I can't do it in that editor. So what I've been doing is running the Audio Sync, jot down the start times of each clip relative to the main clip, escape out and on the main editor, drop and nudge the clips to their synced start times. It's a workaround, but an odd "extra" step for a program that's otherwise very intuitive. In fairness, I have yet to work with this in the latest release. My comments are about the prior version.
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Opacity line appears removed from easy timeline adjustment and view as you note, it appears only control is in the menus
Edge Enhancement is now part of "Color", click Edit above timeline and then Keyframes tab and look in the Color Adjustment area or click Keyframes above timeline and look in the Color Adjustment area. However, once applied, if you select it in the timeline for a easy edit of settings, the proper area is not brought up so one needs to fish through the menus again.
Jeff
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I've attached a screenshot. I am trying to split my timelines between songs from a recorded live performance. Normally, I can go straight to the breaks in the waveform, BUT PowerDirector 365 doesn't seem to want to generate waveforms after the first few clips. Regenerate Waveform does not work. The clips are all from the same source, my Samsung Galaxy S10, so the waveform should be consistently appearing if file format compatibility is an issue. The missing waveform is very inconvenient when trying to efficiently pare down three hours worth of livestreaming down to just an hour show. I used to produce the shows on-device via PowerDirector Mobile, which I love. I switched to PowerDirector Pro once I started using multiple cameras and multiple sources for content to include (Facebook livestreams, other devices, other users, etc). and for the most part, am happy with the desktop version. I'm using a Surface Pro 4, but I've noticed the same issue on my desktop too.
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I agree. I love PowerDirector Mobile. Very capable, very effective, so it has bben a constant frustration that i can do practically anything, except fade out.
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I can't find my prior post about this topic, even from my own profile, so I'll ask again:
What's the difference between Action Director and Power Director, esp in terms of 3D editing? I own a Samsung Galaxy Gear 360, and used the AD that came with it. Considering upgrading to the latest, but then I saw Power Director. I can't seem to tell the difference, and there is no product comparison page that includes both.
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