Dan Hauck

Thanks for being willing to help. Is there a way to contact the developers other than FaceBook and/or Twitter? Is there a way to make the cursor position in the timeline appear in the preview window so I can see where to make the volume manipulation? When I double-click on the position in the backing track where I'd like to change the volume the sound file opens in the preview window without the cursor there being in any particular position. If I cut the backing track and attempt to do a fade-up from there it does the fade-up from silence. What I'd like to do is simple and any video editor of any sophistication would want to do something like this frequently.

Getting late here, I'll try tomorrow. If I can increase the width of the backing track enough to see is there the capacity to place the fade points there? What is the purpose of "dual preview" function? The slider that you're referring to seems to only increase the magnification on the track. Is there a way to make the track "taller"?

This strikes me as being very slow, tedious and kludgy. I think it would be much better to have a larger width in the audio track and the have the ability to place fade points in the track where one will be using them. Also, waveform in preview window should be in a contrasting color from the line indicating volume. Or possibly when one double clicks the audio track have the audio track come up in the preview window with the cursor in that exact spot and be able to place a fade point without the cursor moving. Customarily in every audio and video program I've ever used the space bar is the stop and start in the particular window that one is using. If I hit the space bar when I'm in the Preview window it automatically starts playback on the time line and that in and of itself is quite confusing.

I must apologize as this explanation doesn't do me much good. The problem I'm having is that I don't see how it's possible to see both the video and the audio simultaneously and be able to manipulate the audio in the exactly the places where I want to. Are you saying that I must split the backing track every place where I need to do a manipulation of volume of the backing track?

I'm a newbie with VideoPad but have 15 years experience with Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and am finding VideoPad rather non-intuitive. I'm currently trying to dip an audio backing track under a vocal narration and am unable to figure this out (I know, I know, there's nothing to "figure out" EVERYTHING is in the help file but there's something the help file isn't telling me). I prefer the timeline and nothing I try allows me to put fade points in the timeline where I can actually SEE what I'm doing. I can do it in the preview pane but I can't see where the point is in relation to the video. The tutorials aren't helping either. What am I missing?