Openshot-qt: Cannot mute/disable the whole track

[gdab]

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.

[gambardella]

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!