Dear Nat,
To start off with, thank you most kindly for the time you took to explain the convoluted nature of this software.
With that said, however, I found some of your descriptions somewhat convoluted as well. Nonetheless, I seem to have discovered some new procedures to undertake.
After getting the film into VideoPad and “adding it to sequence,” I discovered that I could still reset the “In Point” in the manner which gave me best control (instead of trying to argue with positioning the red cursor as precisely as desired), and upon entering the precise start point I could simply click on the red “In Point” flag button. I also find it rather confusing and/or idiotic to have two windows within VideoPad displaying the input.
All this aside, there remains still something about VideoPad and its conversion that leave me less than satisfied, for in any work that I have performed in the editing of films (and this has included taking parts to combine them into one whole), the resulting film has a pixilated gray square quality to it and I don’t find this appreciable whatsoever. If my input is .wmv and the out is also .wmv, then why should the display quality suffer?
Continuing to soldier on –
Greg