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I have a really hard time seeing white on black. I upgraded this afternoon and now the software is un-usable for me. What can I do to change the interface to being black on white instead of white on charcoal? It is possible to increase the font of the interface texts? If I had realized that upgrading would change the interface without a way to modify it, I would not have spent the money but gone to a different program. As it is, it looks like I have to buy a different program anyway.

Bonjour, j'ai fait un diaporama sur mon ordinateur maison , pour l'anniversaire de ma petite fille . j''etais bien contente, mais lorsque nous avons voulu mettre la clé USB sur mon ordinateur portable pour le diffuser à la fete ca n'a pas marché !!! nous avons emporter l'ordinateur familial à la salle . A présent ayant du temps, j'ai voulu mettre mon diaporama sur DVD pour en profiter encore un peu en le visionnant à la télé . impossible de graver le DVD (3" ex. fichus) je suis désespérée car mon diaporama n'est plus accessible il comportait plus de 600 photos..... est ce que vous avez la possiblité 1/ de le remettre avec le nom du fichier "Mon diaporama 20 ANS ILONA et 2/ comment faire pour graver le DVD , j'ai fait exactement ce qui est dit plus haut , ca paraissait facile et chaque fois que j'ai voulu le visionné à la télé !!! rien .je ne me sens pas de tout recommencer le boulot effectué .... merci de votre aide sincères salutations H IVARS

Big changes on this release. Bugs fixed: Fixed effects not displaying on batch editor properly if hardware acceleration is on Fixed some visual artifacts related to the green screen effect Fix a possible crash after using the Resolve Missing Files dialog Fix possible crash when dragging points on mask effect Fix control panel hiding automatically on the full screen preview even when the user is trying to edit something on it Fix audio scrubbing bugs Fixed can rename a locked track Disabled click-to-play on the preview if previewing an audio clip Fixed negative duration is visible on the speed change dialog if clip is reversed Fixed Pan audio effect sometimes not displayed in the list when it should be New features: New effects, radial blur and circular blur Added looping mode to preview Added aspect ratio changing effects (letterbox, stretch and crop) Added a 'drop position' tooltip when dragging clip from bin to sequence Improved auto-match logic for export User can now choose which YouTube channel to upload to when exporting to YouTube Design changes: Effects such as Zoom now have better quality when you zoom in on the clip Removed the concept of 'Preview Resolution'. Now we preview and cache at the size at which the docked clip preview actually appears. Not longer letterboxing clips when previewing a single clip, as a result of the above changes Added the concept of sequence output resolution. Match Content will get the median aspect ratio of the clips on the sequence and letterboxes all clips to that aspect ratio if necessary. The above changes will improve performance (no longer caching and rendering letterbox "checkerboard" when there is no need to, no longer caching at a resolution greater than what can be displayed on the docked clip preview), and gives a better "what you see is what you get" factor (better match between preview and export).

Bugs fixed: Fixed transition bugs from last version Fixed incorrect scrolling for text clips. Split button not appearing on storyboard mode Thumbnails slow to update for certain clips when applying Flip, Rotate etc. New features: New audio fade options, including audio ducking. Volume and pan sliders added to storyboard mode New text scrolling mode: top-to-center General preview and caching improvements

Someone please HELP ME!!! I have used the free version of Photostage several times to make videos for loved ones to play at funeral of a loved one. I have never had a problem before. But of course, this time I have a very short amount of time to create the slideshow....the funeral is TOMORROW! I don't understand why, but the video hangs up, just stops at every transition between photos. I tried taking out the transitions I had put between the photos. No luck. I removed the music from the audio track. Still no luck. When you start the slideshow it goes fine until it stops between first photo and second photo and just stays frozen there. I manually clicked on the video button to start the video after it hung on the first two, Moved the slider past that and tried again. NO LUCK..... for the love of GOD, will someone help me? If I don't show up with this video at the funeral tomorrow, they're going to bury me right along side the desceased!

Some minor fixes: Fixed cursor flickering between two icons when dragging from project window to storyboard window New replace and insert icons cursors used when dragging from project window to timeline window Fixed 'Cut' option working even on a locked track. Fixed certain bubble-tips can display on top of the welcome dialog Fixed FX and Fade buttons working incorrectly in some cases when track is collapsed Fixed Rotate and Flip right-click options not working on image sequence clips New feature: 'Show Alpha Mask' mode on Green Screen effect. Displays the alpha channel in black-and-white, helps you fine-tune the green screen parameters.

General improvements / new features: Green Screen improvements: add new Feathering parameter. This has a similar effect to the Fading parameter (make pixels semi-transparent) but it only affects the boundary between the foreground image and keyed out background. Both can be used to make leftover green pixels blend in with the new background. Note that Feathering is significantly slower than Fading, especially as the Feathering value gets large. 'Brightness' mode in Green Screen changed to 'Color + Brightness', giving a better key overall. Improved performance when reading from cache Improved performance when caching effects Bugs fixed: Fix selecting alternate audio stream not longer working Fix .VOB files not imported correctly Fix 'Help' button working incorrectly in Export Wizard. Fix 'Alt' modifier not disabling ripple-editing when resizing a track clip from the start. Fix sequence preview can freeze when playing beyond the cached region. Fix export wizard buttons not working for Vista users in some cases Fix certain clips being added to the wrong bins Fix possible crash when Custom tab is selected. Fix videos with non-square pixels not displaying with correct aspect ratio in some cases

v7.02 Fixed hamburger menu, etc. can annoyingly get activated by accident when using Alt to freely drag track-clips Fixed possible crash when double clicking on storyboard timeline Fixed image sequence clips and ExpressAnimate clips not rendering correctly, since last version Fixed incorrect info displayed when viewing properties of a image sequence clip Fixed speed change bugs on clip preview Fixed speed change issues in narration dialog Fixed small redraw issues on play overlay New feature: save project as template v7.03 Fixed Radius parameter not saved / loaded from project correctly when using Spotlight effect. Fixed duplicate thumbnails in templates dialog Fixed save project as template failing in some circumstances Fixed 'Use This Frame as Storyboard Frame' not applying instantly on storyboard Various caching improvements and optimizations

v7.01 released! Fixed some AVI files not being imported completely Fixed flickery/jumpy preview when adjusting sequence position from effect window cursor Fixed no chapter breaks on DVDs Fixed export failed on high resolution Fixed volume slider doesn't work for clips with more than two channels. Fixed export blu-ray in wrong framerate. Fixed 'Export All Sequences' menu option sometimes greyed out Fixed clips sometimes overlapping when typing in new length Fixed crash when using Pan effect on Mono audio Fixed possible crash when using colour picker from effects window Added Play/Pause overlay when hovered on preview Improve caching priority Fix template merge bugs and implement template looping

This note includes 6.29, 6.30 and 6.31 New: Use speech to text(voice recognition) automatically generate subtitles. Note that this feature is using whatever voice recognition engine installed on the computer. The one come with Windows might not be accurate enough. Can now apply(merge) template project to an existing sequence automatically. Easily swap out applied Title Templates. Export settings are now saved into project file. Audio will be added to VideoPad from ExpressAnimate. Replaced some 3rd party codecs for performance and output quality. This is a significant upgrade. Allow to change aspect ratio of Border Effect. Fixed (not a complete list): Cache doesn't update when overlayed track is shortened. Popping noise on audio transition. Sequence Preview not smooth when scrubbing.

Little late but here's a release note for version 6.28: Provide downloadable template projects Added file size estimate in export dialog Preserve track clip fade-ins when using drag-drop-and-replace Fix possible crash when using effects dialog Can now change audio stream on the fly for a video with multiple audio streams (Right click in bin -> Select Audio Stream). No longer need to re-import to select a new audio stream. Version 6.29 is basically the same with a few bug fixes: Fixed black frame at the end of a fade-in. Fixed cache bug when resizing overlayed track Fixed potential crash when splitting a clip with the Censor effect on it

This is a follow up bug fixing release with some UI adjustments including: Revised UI for creating DVD movie. Allow lossless export to OneDrive. Fixed a bug that occasionally caused crash when editing green screen effect.

New: Revised Export Dialog. Cleaner layout and added tool tips. Export settings are now saved with the project. Last export settings from a different project are nolonger used. Ability to use bookmarks as DVD chapter menu. Fixed: Fixed lossless export can not end. Fixed a bug caused crash during export. Fixed in some cases unwanted frozen frames appeared on the sequence.

New: Improved preview and cache performance and image quality. Revised Subtitle dialog. Timeline/Storyboard window can now be undocked as a separated widnow. New video effects: Directional Blur Spotlight New effect options: New color option for text shadow. New intensity option for Ripple effect. Better handling for Zoom and Crop effect widget. Radial gradient option for blank clips. Transparent option (percentage) for text background. Effect mask now can be dragged in a whole by grabbing the inside area. Support uploading to Vimeo. New supported image format: JPEG XR, JPE. New toolbar tab - Effects. Subtitle dialog now auto saved in case of crash. Timeline cursor now matches when switch between Timeline mode and Storyboard mode. Add Last Changed Date column to media bin. Fixed: Fixed the fade transition make white text look greyish. Fixed color of hyperlinks in Export Dialog. Fixed corssfade audio doesn't work after the project is reloaded. Fixed single channel audio panned to the left. Fixed varies speed change issues. Fixed Export All Sequences sometimes exporting with wrong bitrate. Fixed numerical markings on Storyboard not updating when scrolled. Fixed a crash bug caused by varias sound devices. Fixed a rare issue that transition at the last clip sometimes generate blank frames.

New: Added Tutorial page. New color picker dialog. Added 3D stereo preview options (instead choose from the options when opening clips). Fixed: Preview cursor skip to end when an effect is applied to the Sequence.

New: Full screen mode for both Clip Preview and Sequence Preview. Previous Preview window is obsoleted and removed. High definition preview cache for Sequence Preview. This is a separated cache rendered in HD resolution. HD cache is activated by enter fullscreen mode from Sequence Preview. Import and export videos with surround sound (multi-channels). Surround sound position effect. Support WebVTT subtitle format. Export and upload to OneDrive. UI tweaking. Fixed: Speed change and reverse video clip causing preview performance drop. Improved timeline navigation performance. Potential crash if the audio has only one channel.

New: Added buttons to change start/end point on Clip Preview cursor tool popup. Added menu item File -> Export All Sequences which allow the user start exporting all sequences in the project in one go. Added option to show uploaded video on social media from export queue dialog. Added Blur transition. Buttons on time line clips shown in color if activated. For example the FX button will appear blue after an effect is applied. VideoPad will try to open the last project (regardless version difference). Fixed: Playback engine has been re-worked to use CPU more effectively. Previewing video clips is now faster and smoother.

This is a follow up release for v5.31. Bugs fixed: Transition freeze if left clip has speed change and effect applied. Fixed clip preview control panel buttons always appear pressed down after the first click. "Insert transition frames" option is disabled unless the clip being slowed down. Fixed some buttons icons has black color and don't stand out from the background.

What's new: Introducing dark theme GUI. We are still gathering feedback and users will have 50% chance to get dark UI when you install VideoPad. The theme can be changed by uninstall and reinstall VideoPad. Added new sound effects: Normalize Noise removal Low pass VST plugins

New: Added Equalizer audio effect. Allow to select one of the audio tracks when importing a video with multiple audio tracks. Added option to disable inserting dissolved frames for slowed (via Speed Change) clips. UI tweaking: For beginners, some of the advanced features are hidden from the UI until the project getting more content. Can now drag clips between media bin, preview windows and the timeline (before we can only drag from bin to timeline). Re-arranged tool bar buttons. Added more options to right click menu on clips. Added hint messages. Fixed: Fixed "Building Preview" appearing too often makes playback not smooth. Fixed Fade Out effect not applied properly if start point is not at the beginning of the clip Fixed an issue burning Blu-ray disk.

This is a maintenance release for polishing existing features and fixing bugs. Below are some of the noticeable changes and fixes: Changes: When Clip Preview showing a clip on the timeline, the timeline cursor will be linked with the preview cursor. i.e. Viewing an audio track in same proportion as video. Text and Title clip edit windows now can be moved by dragging the title bar. Speed change can be applied by setting the duration of the clip. Added UI widget for Censor effect. UI improve for Pan and Zoom effect. Fixes: Black screen at the end of exported video is removed. Fixed burnt Blu-ray DVD can't be played after certain time position. Fixed sound not playing in a rare case. Fixed audio synchronize issue for lossless export Fixed Green Screen effect produce darken edge.

New: Added new title templates. Title templates are clips contain specified animation effects. The duration of the animation can be adjusted independently. There are 11 title templates added in this release. Added new export feature - Lossless export. This feature will export sections from the input video without decoding and re-encoding therefore the export is much faster and without quality loss. Below are requirements to export a section losslessly: The input video codec is H.264 or MPEG4. Input resolution and frame rate must be the same as output. No overlaying which means the section can only contain one track. No effect applied. No transition. If a clip contains a transition, the section that covered by the transition can not be exported losslessly. Lossless eligible sections must occupying more then 10% of the sequence. Added import/export support for APNG format. APNG format employed lossless compression and allows transparent background (alpha channel). A video project can now be uploaded on to YouTube as 360 degree video. Fixed: Pan & Zoom effect does not work properly if start/end point has changed. Fixed issues uploading videos to YouTube and Facebook. Fixed in some cases transparent overlaying produce incorrect color. Fixed issues for text with empty lines.

Fixed missing clips when loading projects.

New: Ability to preview video clips in 360 degree mode by click on the "360" toggle button at the bottom of the preview windows. Added "Place in 360" effect which can be used to overlaying normal 2D clips on to a 360 degree video. Re-implemented how image sequences work: An image sequence are now represent a serial of images(in alphabet order of the file names) in a folder. Sub folders are not taken into account. An ISQ (file extension) file is created in the image sequence folder after imported. ISQ files can be opened and added into VideoPad as a video file. Image sequences can now be imported into VideoPad without being converted to AVI. Image sequences can now be lossless when saved as images with lossless compression (e.g. PNG). Ability to import/export image sequences with transparent background. Alpha channel of the images are preserved. Fixed: Fixed exported video freeze in between the gap of two clips with effects applied. Fixed exported DVD freeze at some point.

This is a polished version of the last release with various bug fixes and performance improvements.