Quote Unless, I'm mistaken, it appears that the new "upgrade" of PowerDirector eliminates the ability to control video fade in and fade outs on the clip selection in the timeline. It used to be there as a green line so that that you could quickly and easily add custom fade marker points and pull them down and adjust as you needed. Without this option, you have to now go into a separate control panel and jack around in there... which takes way too long and the accuracy is lost. Worthless. If they don't add the green opacity lines back, PowerDirector is now back to being nothing more than an amateur joke and a toy. Worthless.

Yes please. Was in the middle of editing and now its all messed up> How do I get previous version back.

I've been using PD for years, and the opacity line at the top of each frame is a MUST. What happened Cyberlink? Get this back, or the time it takes to make a professional video is huge. What's wrong with you?

Quote I've been using PD for years, and the opacity line at the top of each frame is a MUST. What happened Cyberlink? Get this back, or the time it takes to make a professional video is huge. What's wrong with you?

Cyberlink doesn't seem to care about any of these things. I just get the standard template, "we'll take a look, thanks for your feedback." And even that feedback takes 1-3 days. I don't know who's running the show at CL, or if they even have the man power to maintain this product, but this latest version is definitely a step backwards for a LOT of users. If PD was all rewritten from scratch, why not make it better and MORE user friendly?

Celect the clip on the timeline, then click Edit and choose Opacity/Fade/Blend

I started working in the new version, and it looked great until it didn't. Was SHOCKED when I realized the opacity control was gone from the timeline. Editing opacity via keyframes in the 'Advanced Settings' more than doubled the time to complete the project. I reverted back to the previous version, absolutely NOT worth the update for me. I did a 'System Restore' in Windows to roll it back.

The opacity control in the timeline is the reason I've stuck wtih PowerDirector. Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? I will not be updating until PD fixes this GLARING and PAINFUL omission.

Quote Celect the clip on the timeline, then click Edit and choose Opacity/Fade/Blend

No thank you.

My projects are live music performances, and involve 4-5 separate camera tracks that need to remain synced with each other and a separate audio track. In a 7 minute video I zip around from track to track raising and lowering the opacity hundreds of times to go with the audio.

The loss of the opacity control lines in the timeline renders this program completely useless to me.

So, no. If you have a few little occasional changes, this method is fine. It is not fine for my work.

Its a disgrace that the opacity adjustment line is not in this latest update. Has anybody any ideas how I can reinstall the previous version of PD

Hmmm. Count me in on being lost without this feature. WTF . .

Not one to just post here4 without looking for answers, I find a few Cyberlink Help topics that SEEM to INVOKE the line for manual editing - like we are all accustomed to. Umm OK, I'll bite - even though it looks like a few extra steps to get there. .

BUT . . . I can't get that to work either! Which makes me wonder if something got lost in the update?? I need a fix to this as well.
Note that on the last screen shot - it even claims the the video fade line is now showing and can be used - but I have tried 6 ways to sunday and never once have I succeed in getting hte video fade line to show up. Grrr~~
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Look at the attatchments in numerical order. I was only able to post 3 screenshots, here's the last one.

Here's the last one - again stating the video line SHOULD be showing . . .

Quote Hmmm. Count me in on being lost without this feature. WTF . .

Not one to just post here4 without looking for answers, I find a few Cyberlink Help topics that SEEM to INVOKE the line for manual editing - like we are all accustomed to. Umm OK, I'll bite - even though it looks like a few extra steps to get there. .

BUT . . . I can't get that to work either! Which makes me wonder if something got lost in the update?? I need a fix to this as well.
Note that on the last screen shot - it even claims the the video fade line is now showing and can be used - but I have tried 6 ways to sunday and never once have I succeed in getting hte video fade line to show up. Grrr~~

There's several cases where what's in the docs do not match what the product does. Here was another one: https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/0/119397.page#449802 It's just a absolutely pathetic release with very little QA on what was released/functional and what was documented. Just no excuse. Some release managers and developers should be assigned to new tasks after this release.

Jeff

Not to be overly dramatic, and I'm just one Mook - but between this kind of issue that keeps occuring now and again, and the need to have an internet connection to USE the cyberlink program(s) - the sunk costs argument of continuing to use cyberlink no longer makes sense to me. I often use this program while in remote areas where there isn't any cell service (for me to make a hotspot so cyberlink will let me in). Having to get through the 'actavation screen' is BS - I only use this program on 2 computers (laptop and PC) and the only reason I even use the subscription version (vs stand alone) is to have the option of using it on my laptop. But half the time I can't when in National Parks and the such. So ... ya . . .

I've been here before, this time - needing to work on a project and no solution for the Opacity controol, I've downloaded and started the learning process on freeware DiVinci.

I can only imagine that the new feedback fourm that cyberlink is highlighiting is going to be AI serviced and another step backwards.

No Opacity Control on Time line, common guys. No Time line are you nuts, a very productive feature lost. I hope this was an error shortly to be restored if not I will look towards another application, write off the effort learnt in PD over the years. For me its a show stopper moment.

Quote Celect the clip on the timeline, then click Edit and choose Opacity/Fade/Blend

This slows down productivity, not right option for desired work flow required effect for keyframe effects , a big step back.

I wonder why the latest updates to PowerDirector 365 are always just the creation and removal of features.
Can't you at least add a check option to turn the function on/off?
I hope you can change the transparency Fade control function on the timeline again.

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This slows down productivity, not right option for desired work flow required effect for keyframe effects , a big step back.

Just as an update, Multicam Room is an option but not a complete solution. Do Multicam as a first step and then refine afterwards with effects and transitions.

Quote I wonder why the latest updates to PowerDirector 365 are always just the creation and removal of features.
Can't you at least add a check option to turn the function on/off?
I hope you can change the transparency Fade control function on the timeline again.

Hope this helps you as an idea for a work aroud. Just as an update, Multicam Room is an option but not a complete solution. Do Multicam as a first step and then refine afterwards with effects and transitions.

Quote Not to be overly dramatic, and I'm just one Mook - but between this kind of issue that keeps occuring now and again, and the need to have an internet connection to USE the cyberlink program(s) - the sunk costs argument of continuing to use cyberlink no longer makes sense to me. I often use this program while in remote areas where there isn't any cell service (for me to make a hotspot so cyberlink will let me in). Having to get through the 'actavation screen' is BS - I only use this program on 2 computers (laptop and PC) and the only reason I even use the subscription version (vs stand alone) is to have the option of using it on my laptop. But half the time I can't when in National Parks and the such. So ... ya . . .

I've been here before, this time - needing to work on a project and no solution for the Opacity controol, I've downloaded and started the learning process on freeware DiVinci.

I can only imagine that the new feedback fourm that cyberlink is highlighiting is going to be AI serviced and another step backwards.

Not a solution to your problem but possible work Around, try, Multicam Room is an option but not a complete solution. Do Multicam as a first step and then refine afterwards with effects and transitions.

Quote Unless, I'm mistaken, it appears that the new "upgrade" of PowerDirector eliminates the ability to control video fade in and fade outs on the clip selection in the timeline. It used to be there as a green line so that that you could quickly and easily add custom fade marker points and pull them down and adjust as you needed. Without this option, you have to now go into a separate control panel and jack around in there... which takes way too long and the accuracy is lost. Worthless. If they don't add the green opacity lines back, PowerDirector is now back to being nothing more than an amateur joke and a toy. Worthless.

Same here... If they don't bring back this "Feature" in about 1-2 Weeks i'm going to kick Powerdirector away from my PC... Just cancelled my 365 subscription anyway and may come back if corrected...

I have to add my voice to the chorus stating that this decision is completely baffling. Power Director has become much, much less useful now and far more labour intensive. Software engineers seem to love changing things for the sake of change, and this is perhaps one of the best examples of fixing something that was never broken that I've seen in a long time.

I hope CyberLink will be responsive to the community and replace this functionality.

I'll also add that I couldn't even find any information about it in the actual documentation and had to go to a private users site on Facebook to even understand what was happening.

While I'm at it, I guess I can add it took me 20 minutes of frustrating searching just to find the voiceover feature, which itself was not intuitive since it was in the menu marked ". . ." for some odd reason in the previous version.

I don't understand who these changes benefit, or how.