If I were you, I'd simply separate video and audio and put the audio on an independent sound track. You can use the Extract Audio command on right clicking on a video clip in the project's multimedia library. This allows you to save the footage's audio in a wav file, put the file in the library and place it on a track where it will not be affected by any changes to your video...

Hi
Welcome to the main CyberLink forum.

Powerdirector 10 has 100 tracks with the higher numbered track being the dominant one. By default only 2 Video/Audio tracks display.

1. Open PD10,
2. Place the sample video into Track 1
3. Stretch out the track - expand them using the slider control, bottom left.
4. Place one of the sample images into Track 2, inset it about 5 seconds.
5. Now go to the preview player and play.

The video will show for the first 5 seconds, the audio will then continue with a sample image showing, followed after 5 seconds the video again until the end.

Placing an image over an audio is just the same - the dominant track image/video overwrites the lower numbered track.

Dafydd

Quote: If I were you, I'd simply separate video and audio and put the audio on an independent sound track. You can use the Extract Audio command on right clicking on a video clip in the project's multimedia library. This allows you to save the footage's audio in a wav file, put the file in the library and place it on a track where it will not be affected by any changes to your video...

Hi
I was tempted to write the method you described. Thank you for doing so. I presumed the newbie was a "very newbie" editor. I would have used your way.

Dafydd

Well, there are usually more than one way to skin a cat, right? I actually think now that one easy straightforward way of achieving the same as I first described is unlinking the video and audio while the footage is on a track. This time you right click on the clip when in the Timeline View. You can then move the latter audio clip back to the former audio block to make the audio continuous after splitting both video and audio. There's a chance you don't need to split the audio at all while splitting the video...

Thank you for the explanation. Now I have this question.
How to insert a frame into the timeline without splitting the MUSIC TRACK.
Every time I insert a frame the MUSIC track splits so I have to pull it back together. This is annoying when inserting many frames. Thanks again for your help.

How about locking the music track (by clicking on the padlock symbol to the left of the track)?

Voce pode bloquear a faixa de audio.
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The method described by the moderator is the most straightforward method for newbies & oldies alike. Locking other tracks is a good idea!

Here's how to... http://www.youtube.com/user/ynotfish77#p/u/7/ZIGqPj-fbAg

Cheers - Tony
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