johnpb

Hi Nat. While going to uninstall my "expired" version of 2.22 one of the options was to downgrade to the free version! I now have the "free" version of 2.22. Regards John

Hi Nat How do I get back to the "free" version? I thought that was what I was using as I tried to down earlier versions and only 2.20 would load! I think I've found another bug. When I viewed the last DVD that VP authored the last 15 minutes wouldn't play! Tried burning again by manually setting the bitrate and no problems. Suggests to me that the VP "burner" isn't calculating the correct bitrate to fit the whole project on the DVD! Too many workarounds for my liking. Will check out WMM for my next project. Cheers John

Thanks for the help Nat. I haven't tried WMM as I've just spent many hours getting to understand how to use VP! I seem to have got upgraded to ver.2.20, which unfortunately does not address any of the issues I have raised. The transitions are better but the Overlay track doesn't allow fading in and out of titles! Workaround is to make titles, take snapshots then insert them in the main video sequence to fade in and out. The 2x DVD-RWs seem to burn well with VP and play on DVD players. I then make an ISO file from the disc and duplicate from that using ImgBurn at slow write speed. Regards John

My projects are simple VHS transfers, captured as MPEG2 then edited and burned on VP. It's at the burning stage where I seem to get problems, possibly because there's no option to burn at slow speeds such as x1 or x2 or use an external burner. I'm assuming VP's burner must run at the disk's max speed and as far as I can establish, only DVDs burnt at low speeds will play on many DVD players. I've just managed to get one project to play well on my DVD player by burning from VP to a 4x DVD+RW disk. I then made an ISO file from this good disk using ImgBurn. I then burnt the ISO file with ImgBurn to a 16x DVD+R at x1 write speed with complete success! I'm now getting some x2 max DVD-RWs to try, which I'm hoping will work more consistently. There are other advantages to using this method. No more wasted blanks (hopefully) and ISO files that can be saved and used to make further DVD copies from. John

Been having similar problems since I starting using VP (2.12) a few weeks ago. Had one or 2 fairly good results with DVDRW (4x) disks but none with DVD+R (8x). I suspect the reason some DVDRs won't work in DVD players is down to the DVD burning speed in VPad. I can find nowhere to set the burn speed in VP and think this is an essential option. It would appear that 2x is a good speed to burn video projects to DVD. An option to use an external burner (eg ImgBurn etc.) would also be a great addition to this software. Another possibility (still to check this out and confirm) is that setting a "bookmark" (chapter) at the beginning of the project will help DVD players to read the DVD. Any thoughts on this? Cheers John