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Hi If all the clips you want to move are on the same track try this.. Left click the first of the group of clips (i.e. select it) Hold down the shift Key Left click the last clip. This will select all the clips in between .Now Right click the last clip in the group and choose Group Selected Clips from the menu. Drag the group of clips up to a higher track to leave a gap in the original track. Add your new clips to the gap. The grouped clips can be moved left/right to any new position Nat

Hi Probably the best way to do this is to film the event with two cameras. One set to show the whole scene and the other filming the dog in close up. The problem with using a single clip as that.. You need to copy the clip in order to have one copy to zoom. The enlargement (the zoom) will lose quality. The degree of enlargement may be limited as the PIP will have to be scaled back again. The principle is as Borate describes...... Place the wide angle clip on Track 1 Place the clip to zoom on Track 2 On Track 2 Use Zoom to enlarge the clip. Crop this to show just the dog.....This may be too large to use Scale the image back Use position to place the small image in the corner Here is the end result...... The effect is not particularly good as it is difficult to get a good degree of enlargement for the PIP. It would be much better in these cases to use the wide angle clip as the PIP and the enlarged dog section as the back ground. If colours make the PIP borders unclear use a blank black image to create a border as here. Place Wide ange clip on Track 3 Use Scale and position to reduce it in size and position to make the PIP Use a Black blank on Track 2 Use scale and position to size it slightly larger than the PIP and place it behind the PIP so showing a narrow border Place a copy of the wide angle clip on Track 1 Use Zoom to enlarge the area of the dog to suitable fill the frame.......... (Border is a bit wide here but you could make it narrower with a bit if scale adjustment.) The same effect can be achieved if you use the Picture in Picture effect for the wide ange clip. Nat

Hi Check that you haven't inadvertently clicked the loudspeaker icon at the extreme left end of the silent track. This will mute the track and it will have a red cross on it. Re-click to activate it again. Less likely you have clicked the loudspeaker icon at the start of the track. (next to the FX box) This will have brought up a Clip Volume control with a mute option. You will not likely have done this in error. At the left end of the track below the group of icons is the Volume slider - check this is set to the right (100% volume) Check also the FX box - If it is blue then you have added an audio effect which may have reduced the volume. Nat

Hi What format is this clip? Does it play OK in VLC player? It would be useful if you could share the clip so other users here could take a look. The instructions to do this are in the pinned section at the head of the forum...... Please include VideoPad version in your post. How to include a link to screenshots (or any file) in your forum post. For sharing a project see below. Screenshots can often help describe the problem better. Upload the image to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc. Copy (share) the URL and paste it into your post here. If using Google Drive, click on GET | COPY, and confirm that it's not RESTRICTED. The screenshot itself won't be posted, but clicking the link will display it. How to share your project for analysis: Share your project. Someone will take a look and come up with a fix. The process is easy, quick and can be done privately. Just follow these steps... Back up --- With your project on the timeline, click on MENU at the top-left. Click FILE|BACK UP PROJECT FILES TO FOLDER. Choose a folder and SELECT FOLDER. Upload --- Use a free server - Google Drive, MS OneDrive, etc.* - to upload the saved, numbered FOLDER. Do NOT upload the individual VPJ or export file. Get link --- Get a public link. If using Google Drive click GET SHAREABLE LINK. If necessary change "restricted" to "anyone with the link can view" Nat

Hi If the tree has a fairly uniform background colour....say just blue sky or white cloud you can use the Green screen effect to make this area transparent. Juggle with the settings to keep outlines as sharp a possible. Place the text on the Track 3, the tree on Track 2 and then replace the sky with a blue blank clip on Track 1........ e.g. TB.mp4 Nat

Hi Why not make a suggestion..... https://www.nch.com.au/suggestions/index.html Nat

Hi Normally the text has a transparent background and doesn't cover up the image. It usually will appear like this... In this example it is set to appear at the bottom of the frame. If it is covering up the image then check that in the text editor you haven't set the text background option. If you want it to appear in a blank part of the video..say it the bottom. You should crop the bottom of the frame, Place a blank black clip on Track 1, the video on Track 2 and the text on Track 3... This loses a little of the frame at the bottom. You can also keep the same tracks but use Position to move the video clip up above the text. This achieves the same result apart from losing top of the frame. The text can be positioned either in the text editor or the text image can be positioned where you want it with the Position effect. There are other ways such as Scaling the clip (not AR) but that will introduce borders on all sides. These are probably the simplest. Nat

Hi As Borate notes....Don't bother with f11. The first thing is to probably create a folder for your preview captures.(If you are going to create a lot). That way you can name it what you want and put in a place that you know....e.g. My holiday film images on the Desktop If you are dealing with lots of images (snapshots) from different projects, it's always best to be orderly..create an image folder for each project and alter the Options/disk default destination for them.(See below.) It's easy to lose where they have gone otherwise! Now open the VP Options/Disc page.... You will see a box about 6 down entitled Save snapshots to... This will be a VP default folder if you have never changed this. Use the Browse button on the right hand end to navigate to the folder you just created. That's where your snapshots will now be stored. With your project on the timeline move the cursor line (or play the project) to the point you wish to save the image. It will now be visible in the Sequence Preview window. If you have just a single clip on the timeline the Clip Preview window will show the same image and will also behave as follows... Right click the preview window Select Take a Snapshot of the Sequence (or Clip) Now select the size/AR of the image that will result... e.g. HD 1080 (1920 x1080) The Image will now appear in the Image bin with the default name of Snapshot-1.png (Screen snapshots will be pngs) A copy of this snapshot will also be saved to the folder you created. If you wish you can rename this snapshot in the bin. This doesn't, unfortunately rename the copy in your new folder. If you now repeat the procedure for any other part of your project, VP will name the images Snapshot-1 Snapshot-2 Snapshot-3 etc. and copies will appear in the image bin as well as your named folder. It's up to you to change the names for better identification. It would be useful if VP changed the names in the save folder as well....But it is as it is......Once saved outside of VP they are on their own! Record_2022_05_23_19_16_16_893.mp4 Nat

Hi Alternative.. Put complete project on timeline Play or drag cursor to start of first section to save. Split track Play/drag cursor to end of first section to save Split the track Grab section to keep and pull it up to Video track 2 Repeat for other sections. Delete Video track 1 Close all the gaps in Video track 2. Edit further if needed and export. Nat

Hi Add text at suitable size and position and use typewriter effect. Increase the speed so pauses due to "space" key is less noticeable e.g...... Test.mp4 Use a screen shot of suitable duration (e.g. 1 second) to pause the text. This example is on a single track. Make multiple lines using texts on higher tracks (First text on top track with a longer image pause. Second text on a lower track with suitable pause image Third text on lower track with suitable end pause.(etc.) Use the position effect to move the individual texts into the position required. e.g. Result is something like this.... Text 2.mp4 Nat

Hi Here is another approach if the songs you want are all on the same video but mixed with others you don't want..... Load the Video Move to the start of first song and split the timeline Move to end of the song and split the timeline. Drag the song you isolated up to Video track 2 Repeat for the other required songs. Now delete Video track 1 and Audio track 1 Click on and close all the gaps. Your required songs will all be on Video Track 2. Now export the timeline. Nat

Hi First thing would be to separate out the song/songs you want from your videos..... Open VP and load a music video (in a compatible format). Once on the timeline and fully cached, move the red cursor line (or play the timeline) until you arrive at the start of the song you want to save. Now split the timeline. Right click the section to the left of the split and select Delete(ripple) from the menu. This removes that section. Continue to play the timeline (or move the cursor) up to the end of the song. Split the timeline once again. Now (provided you don't want to save any songs further along the timeline) right click on the section to the right of the split and Delete (ripple) this. You should now be left with the required song which you can export as a stand alone clip. Once you have done this for all the songs you wish to save from the different videos, you will have your songs on separate clips. You can now open VP and load all the exported clips, rearrange them as you wish, add transitions/titles etc. and finally export the whole as a new video. An alternative to splitting and deleting bits of the video (which is logical and akin to handling cine film) you can preview the video in the Clip Preview window. and then use the Start and End markers (red and blue brackets) beneath the window to isolate the section you require. The timeline will automatically show only that section and can be exported as mentioned above. This has the added advantage in that after the export you can re-adjust the Start/End brackets to isolate a different section of the same video and export that. Nat

Hi The Start and End tabs are found under the Clip Preview window and affect only the clip selected. You can re-select the clip in question (only a single clip can be adjusted at one time..not the whole timeline) and then drag the Start tab (red) to the left and the End tab (blue) to the right which will reset the clip in question to its former length. You can also do this with current sequence in the Sequence bin which should comprise the whole timeline. The logical thing, and often stated on the forum, is to regularly Save project File As regularly giving a suitable different name each time. This will create a vpj file which can be used to reopen your project as it was at the save point. If you pressed the tabs not too long ago then you may be able to backtrack to before that point with the Redo arrows at the top left of the top toolbar. Nat

Hi "..... I drop in a clip and make editing changes to it ....." So far so good. You have loaded a clip and edited it. You now have two ways to save it.. As an EXPORTED file.......i.e a finished video clip in a suitable format e.g. mp4 A vpj file which is a text file that holds all the information regarding your project...the clips and images you have used; their names and location; the edits you made; texts you may have added etc. As Borate says, this is not your edited project. It is a text file that VP can read and from it reconstruct your project. You create a vpj file by clicking the Save Project tab. From the menu choose Save Project File As since this will allow you to use a name of your choice and the save will not overwrite any other save you may have made. In this way you can make multiple saves at different stages of your editing and place them in your own designated folder.. A vpj file can be activated by double clicking it. This will open VP which will read the data and load the files it contains and the edits and texts and so reproduce you project exactly at the stage that it was saved. In fact, as you work VP automatically saves a vpj file in the background in case your system crashes for some reason. This is removed if you close VP in the normal way "......However, if I go up to "open" right under "menu" and click on the arrow....not the word "open" but the arrow to the right of it, it will show me the last couple things I have worked on and I can see the project easily (since I only work on one at a time) and I can click the file path and the project will open with the changes made and supposedly saved last time. ..." If VP is already open this procedure will list all the vpj files you made and you will have the choice of which one to open. An alternative is to simply drag the vpj file of your choice from the save folder to the VP icon (on the desktop?) and drop it which will do the same thing. In all these scenarios VP will (or should) open your project at the point it was saved. If it doesn't something is amiss. Occasionally the vpj will not be able to find your clips if you have renamed or moved them. In this case VP will tell you so and ask you to relocate the files or resolve the problem Nat

Hi Lemonade. " 4. A simpler shortcut for cutting clips from a sequence. ..." With your clip(s) on the timeline set the red cursor line at the start of the deletion. Grab the stem of the cursor line and drag it right (or left) to the end (or start) of the unwanted section. This will produce an area highlighted in blue. Right click the area and select DELETE from the menu. The selected area of the sequence will be deleted and gaps closed......... Deleting a section of the sequence.mp4 Complete clips are simple.......just right clip the clip in question (to select it) and then Delete (ripple). Selected clip is deleted and gap in the sequence is closed. ".....3. Animated motion based on points/markers. ...." As Borate says, use keyframes to animate. Most of the VP effects can be animated. This example uses just Position and Scale to move the Rose png about the background.... Animated rose.mp4 basic keyframes move the object in straight lines between the frames but the graph line can have curved trajectories as well. If you are unsure regarding the use of keyframes post to the forum and someone will explain. Nat Nat

Hi Devon Depending on the number of mini videos you have try (e.g you suggest 12) the method is basically to use split screen to set a matrix of 4 x 3 This means you use 12 tracks each with a specific clip set up vertically over the others. Each clip is then set to fill their allocated matrix area. They won't be 16:9 but quite close. Each clip can be individually moved within their rectangle for adjustment of contents. There will be no borders between each of the 12 frames. If things are very sluggish when the result played then use the same matrix but fill in just the the first vertical three clips. Export this as an mp4. Repeat with the next vertical row of clips and export in a similar way. Do the same for the remaining clips. When you have done all four vertical rows, load the four mp4s back. Place them one over the other on separate tracks. VP now only has to play 4 tracks instead of 12. Nat

Hi If you imported your clips directly from your phone to your laptop, they will be somewhere on your laptop, probably your download folder, from where you would load (Add) them to VP. If you save your project and then reopen your vpj project file you will not need to resolve missing files as they will be where you downloaded them to. If you had VP open and then plugged in your phone, VP will ask if you want to import any files it finds there, in which case they will be saved to the default folder in Options/Disk as Borate mentions and resolution will not be required. If you loaded the clips into VP from your phone then you can edit etc and save the project as usual but if you then unplug the phone you are removing the storage location, so on opening you project later VP won't find them and will prompt for resolution. Plugging the phone back in will allow VP to find them again. Always best to keep clips, VP and project file on the same device. Nat

Hi Try this, Its probably the simplest.. Create a simple Typewriter text Use the Position effect to locate it in the frame. (say, at the bottom) Adjust the duration by pulling out the text clip. The text will remain in place when complete for this extra time. Text animation duration can be adjusted in the editor. The text will now appear a letter at a time from the left. Untitled.mp4 Nat

Hi Done, Nat

Hi This might be better perhaps... The bin thumbnail might possibly be amended with a red "S" and then a change of name to "Stabilized" wouldn't be required and the bin order would be unchanged. After all a green tick is added when the clip appears on the timeline to show it has been added. Make the suggestion a Borate suggests... https://www.nch.com.au/suggestions/index.html?software=VideoPad Nat

Hi ".......When video clips are stabilised, they are moved to the bottom of the bin. ......... Is there a reason why they are moved?.." It's all in the name. Clips appear in the bin in alphanumeric order. e.g. Here, Clip 2-SP1-001.mpg (at the top) will be stabilized... The stabilized clip now appears at the bottom of the bin as the name now starts with "Stabilized-" Any other clips with alphanumeric names that fall after "Stabilized-" with not be moved e.g.TAPPING for SYNCH.mpg which would remain at the bottom of the list .... This is easier to see if you switch to List view.... before and after.... Although this might cause inconvenience in some instances the workaround is simply to right click the stabilized clip(s) in the bin and select Rename from the option and remove the word Stabilized- from the name. The clip will then return to its original position. (Although you may not know it had been stabilized as it will have its original name again.) Nat

Hi As described... Load the phone files to a folder on your PC Disconnect the phone as all the files are now on the PC in a designated folder Add the required files from that folder to VP Edit project in VP At regular intervals Save Project As selecting the designated folder where you have the files. This will save the vpj file alongside the clips. Use a different name for each save like you did...AP1 AP2 etc. Double clicking any of these vpjs will load the project back to VP in the same state that they were saved. You don't have to save the vpj(s) to the same folder as the clips but its more logical to do so. There will be no need to resolve any files. Your phone is not involved Nat

Hi That's not normal. You are saving the project I take it? Are you moving or re-naming the files during those "few days" ? In which case opening the saved vpj file means VP won't find them and will prompt you to resolve (find) them in their new location or under their new name. Even if you cleared the cache VP would still be able to reconstruct the project if everything matched taking a little longer in the process. Did you possibly save the project with the files on an external drive which was not present when you tried to reload your project? It would interesting to know if the location stated in the missing files screen was the same as the location where you eventually found them when you resolved each one... and were the file names the same as the VP window stated? They have to be identical of course for them to be loaded. Nat

Hi "........My version of Videopad doesn't have a sequence bin....." As stated..All version of VP have a sequence bin. The bin area is the space at the upper left of the GUI initially labelled Drag files and folders here. It's where loaded files appear as thumbnails. Depending on the file type VP places them in different bins. At the top of this area you will see the bin labels Sequences ..Video files .. Audio files .. Images. These are followed by a + which, if you click, will allow you to add further bins. Each bin has its own background logo like a camera or speaker or images. If the width of the bin area is not wide enough (it can be adjusted) some of those labels may not be visible. If this is so then click the white triangular arrow which will slide the labels in either direction. You should now be able to uncover the Sequences tab which is to the left. You cannot see it probably as the total bin area may be too narrow or you haven't moved the headings along to the right. On opening VP the Sequences bin will NOT be empty. It will contain a blank sequence labelled Sequence 1 which has a clapperboard thumbnail.... This is because VP needs a "space" into which it can copy the contents of the timeline. As soon as anything is added to the timeline (Image/Video clip/audio or text clip) Sequence 1 becomes the copy of the timeline; no matter how many clips are added. The clapperboard icon changes to a thumbnail of the clip first placed on the timeline........ Sequence 1 is, in effect, a copy your project as you have it at a specific editing point. It is a copy of the whole timeline and won't have a green tick. As explained, right clicking the Sequence 1 thumbnail (not the clapperboard) in the bin brings up a list of options which includes saving the complete audio for the sequence as a separate file. This is always a .wav file and is the complete audio clip of your project. Two copies of this are created; one goes into the Audio bin and the other is saved to your PC in a file designated in VP Options/Disk/Captured audio Hope this makes things a bit clearer. Nat

Hi NCH Mixpad will convert a .wav file to an mp3 file. Open Mixpad and load the Sequence.wav file that you saved from VP. It will appear on the top track. Click the Export Mix tab and select .mp3 from the list. The file will be saved to the selected folder. Note: The number of .mp3 exports may be limited in an unlicensed version of Mixpad. Nat