Wave color of audio files

cbreemer

I was creating a video with 4 video files and 4 audio files, and I noticed that the first two of my audio files are blue, the last two are green. See Different colors image

I was surprised to see the green appear with no.3, I think they've always been blue for me. Or maybe green, but not both. There doesn't seem to be a problem, but surely this must signify something ? Just curious ....

borate

That feature shows up in some VP installs but color coding seems somewhat arbitrary. Right-click in the audio track, and you may get a little insight.

cbreemer

I got no insight whatsoever. Same information shown, also in the Properties. All audio files are WAV, created by the same audio editor in exactly the same way.

Ah well, a little color diversity brightens up things a bit 😀

borate

https://nch.invisionzone.com/topic/35317-audio-colours/

cbreemer

Aha, Clip Classification ! I had not noticed that. Turns out that Blue is for Music, Green is for Voice.

Now why VideoPad classifies some of my piano only WAV's as "Voice" is quite beyond me. I can't quite see the point of this feature actually. But I'm glad the mystery is solved, thanks for that.

borate

As said, seems somewhat arbitrary. The feature may is not available in all installs or it may vanish completely.

cbreemer

By all means take it out. Seems like the sort of funky but ultimately useless stuff that Microsoft likes to implement.

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If your version shows the audio classification and you see no reason to use it then you can turn the feature off from your computer's registry settings.

Nat

cbreemer

Oh, it doesn't bother me at all. I was only wondering if there was some problem when I saw it first. But thanks anyway !