Cannot mute/disable the whole track

[gdab]

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System Details:

• Operating System / Distro: Ubuntu 16.04
• OpenShot Version: 2.3.4

I just install Openshot 2.3.4 and found it is harder to develop my video than the old version, 1.4.3. The old version already have track and clips properties setting in hand. But for this version, it has many parameters I have to deal with.

[DylanC]

@gdab - Right click that section and select "mute clip".

[BarbzYHOOL]

Why do you close this ? you didn't answer his question

He asks how to mute an entire track, not all clips one by one. There isn't even an option "mute clip"... Very annoying because I didn't see that and was expecting it to work normally

[gdab]

@DylanC I think it is more convenient to have muting for an entire track, so I don't have to mute for each clip in that track.

[DylanC]

@BarbzYHOOL @gdab - Ah I understand now. Reopening this.

[abdilra7eem]

I am also having this problem, and it's making my work-flow extremely counter-intuitive. I edit on multiple tracks, and usually isolate certain parts of clips on a muted and hidden track until I need them. and sometimes, I enable and disable semi-transparent tracks, or add titles which I need to hide and show while working.

[ghost]

I also bumped into this. Actually, I do not even know how to mute single clip. I cannot find any option anywhere. It might be a Linux issue. I am using Openshot 2.4.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. Reverting to 1.x now, because v2 is unusable for me.

[BarbzYHOOL]

There are some things that are much faster on the new version, but some are much faster on 1.4 And it's crashing as much on both versions sadly :(

This is the only program that I use with crashes but I'm still going to use it because it has qualities

[N3WWN]

In 2.4.x, you can mute a clip by right clicking on it in the timeline and selecting Volume -> Entire Clip -> Level 0%.

If you want to mute and unmute (or alter the volume) at various points within a clip, you can move the playhead to where you want the volume changed and use the Volume in the properties frame to add a keyframe for the volume change.

Note that if you start with full volume (Level 100% or 1.00) and add a single volume keyframe elsewhere in the track, the volume will adjust the entire time from the start of the track up until the keyframe. To isolate the volume change, set two keyframes: one at the end of the previous volume level and one at the start of the new volume level. This way, you can set the length of the fade between levels.

Also note that this isn't volume-specific info... this is true of all parameters that use keyframes.

[jboero]

Wow I'm super late to this party but Fedora finally upgraded to 2.4 and I was sad to see this whole-track mute missing.

One thing that isn't mentioned is it's much simpler to select multiple clips and disable them all at once. CTRL-Click (SHIFT-Click doesn't work). Anyway hope this helps someone in the future unless this feature gets re-added.

[jEsuSdA]

Please, add the Openshot old option to activate/deactivate mute/unmute an entire track. It was completely useful!!

Thanks a lot!

[RobertRoberts2020]

How is this not a thing, it's literally impossible to use this, I have over 100 clips on this project and now as I'm ready to add the music, I find out there's litrerally no way to mute the tracks o I have to clikc EVERY SINGLE one of them and mute them It's like I literally lost the will to finish this project.

[pedroffranco]

This Video Editor is one of the best one out there for a beginner user. Is very important that functions of mute the entire track and the switch to turn on off the visibility of the entire track are restored. this functions, on a program of this kind, are fundamental. I hope the author consider write the code to restore this functions. Thanks a lot for your effort!!!

[SuslikV]

@pedroffranco Related PR - https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/pull/3438 or if you are Windows user, here is

Custom build (not official): https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues/3383#issuecomment-638020348

[cmorse01]

Just adding to the request to be able to hide/show & mute/unmute at the track level. In my use case I have a couple of tracks used for overlay graphics with chromakey filters to allow underlying video to show through. But it would be handy to hide the overlays when keyframing the video clips without having to move them out of the way. That way can see the full clip I'm working on. Currently I'm dragging clips to edit into a temp track above the overlays to keyframe, then dragging them back down to their original track location under the overlays. Thanks for all the hard work!!

[vlad88sv]

+1 to this request, I think there's enough space for a mute button there

[jdpurnell]

I also have this problem and this is an important feature. Please add asap. I am running version 2.5.1 on WIndows.

[Innitinnuit]

This is sorely needed on the new version please!

[andyschmidt]

audio muting for the whole track is really important!

[technout]

I like this editor but on my first bigger project i bump into this.. i really need a mute whole track button. Even still in version 2.5.1 in 2021 this is the most wanted future!! Also thank you for your great work and continues commitment to the project! Especially lead developer jonoomph :)

[evnow]

Is there a way to normalize & increase the audio ?

No - the guidance is to use an external program like Audacity.

So, if we use audacity to edit audio - and bring it back as a track - we have to mute the current track. Its a very basic feature - given that even a basic audio feature like normalizing the volume is not available.

We need either

• mute / set volume level of entire track OR
• set volume level of all the selected clips. Currently if you select multiple clips only one clip's volume level changes - which one in particular seems unpredictable.

[JapanYoshi]

I tried OpenShot 2.5.1 for Windows because I was getting impatient at how sluggish Resolve runs on my PC, but the lack of such a basic feature will hamper my workflow significantly. I will be searching for other alternatives for the time being, as this is a dealbreaker for me.

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[N3WWN]

Track muting is still a valid and useful request, so commenting to keep this issue open.

[jondo]

OT: Stalebot considered harmful

[jdpurnell]

This is an extremely relevant feature. I would go so far as to say that this is a video editing 101 basic feature! The inability to mute/toggle a track of audio is unheard of in most basic video or audio editing applications. I actually stopped using OpenShot for a while because this feature was unavailable. What's even more interesting is that it appears that initial versions of this tool had this feature and someone actually thought it was a good idea to remove it.

Anyway, please keep open and add to the product. Once it's added then I can come back fulltime!

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[Colorjet3]

Yes, we need to differentiate the functionality/ability of muting a clip vs. muting an entire track. On one track I can have multiple audio clips and now I want to manage another track that has audio clips and I need the ability, efficiently, to mute an entire track(s). Recently I found out that when you use the "Separate Audio" function that the audio isn't really and truly separated from the original clip but rather it is muted. This means the functionality is there and it just needs to be exposed as an off/on switch. u/vlad88sv provided where it should be in https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues/784#issuecomment-655834598.

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[N3WWN]

I consider this basic functionality that is still missing

[JapanYoshi]

Wow, it's been a whole 5 years and muting a whole channel is still unimplemented?! You'd think such a big project as a video editor would have people familiar with the codebase...

[jondo]

To everyone complaining: Your behavior is very rude. Please stop, unless you can offer your own implementation of the feature.