Oldmartian

Trying to upload my new video to YouTube and I filled in the YouTube username I go under (Oldmartian@gmail.com) and I filled in the password and other info. When I click the "OK" button I get a balloon pointing to the YouTube Username box saying "Username required." Is this a bug? I tried "Oldmartian" (without the @gmail.com), but got the same error. Thanks, Old Martian

Is it posible to change the output of the video stablizer? It currently outputs to a low resolution MP4 format, but I'd like to change it to .MPG, but I can't find how to do this. Thanks, O M

Nat, The crossfade dissolves the first video but the second shows the first frame but the motion doesn't start until the crossfade is finished. Conversely, when the second clip starts the first clip's last frame fades away. So there's never motion of both videos at the same time. A fine point, maybe, but not a true video to video fade. I know playing around is all the fun, and I love to play. My problem is that I have 28,000 pictures and mayne a few thousand video clips. I play too much and produce so little. I'll be dead of old age before I produce anything useful. General rule of thumb is that after you burn the DVD you get this idea of how to make it better, neater, faster. (Or correct that damn spellingg error you saw a hundred times but still didn't notice it untiil the final is made and copies distributed to friends and family.) Thanks, OM

Nat gave you the full answer, but I tried what you said you did and when I clicked the "Make DVD Movie" button I expected it to start making the movie. Then I noticed the "OK" button on the bottom, which put the show on the road (disk). My money says that's what went wrong. Oldmartian

Nat, I think he wanted to overlap the videos. I'm new to VideoPad but not new to video editing. Overlapping a video is a nice effect. Fading one into the other may look like overlap, but it isn't. If I have a video of my daughter on a swing at five years old and at 25 years old, a beautiful effect would be that as the first starts to fade the second one appears slowly and for a period of maybe a few seconds you see them both on the swing before the 5-year old starts to fase. I know the backgroud and lighting and position and video quality would probably deminish the effect a bit, but it would be a nice experiment. OldMartinan

There is a program called VideoLAN that's free, that plays almost anything. It's pretty popular. Do a Google search and you'll find a web-site that you can download it from. Install it and run the program and then drag the file into the window. If it's a video file, it will probably play it. You still might not know what extention to give it, though. It may not be a video file, but a compressed file like a ".zip" file. If you search, download and install the freeware version of WinRAR and give the video a .zip or .rar extention and double-click it, WinRAR might recognize it. Another option is to just ask your question in Google.com like, "Lost extention to a video file" or "reccover video file extention" which may bring up some sites that could offer help. There is also Videohelp.com where you can get a wealth of help. Your file probably is a video file that has not been compressed, so that venue is less promising (video is already quite compressed, so there is little value of anyone availing themselves of compression). In a neafarous note, did someone compress the file anyway remove the extention on purpose in order to hide the purpose of the fil? These are just ideas you might want to follow. Hope something works out. OldMartian

If it's a bad input file, the processing won't ever make it better. It shouldn't degrade noticably, though. Good luck. OM

I figured out that this shouldn't take that much time...

I have purchased the VideoPad software but have not yet produced a video. (I'm using for the deshaker only, right now.) I was concerned about your experience since I've got "skin in the game" by actually purchasing the software Here are my results: After making 4 unique movies and repeating one, all output quality was the same. Using adifferent "device" choice, the quality was substantially poorer. Here's the test: Using NCH's VideoPad, I made 4 unique movies, using all of different but similar material (same camera, same subject material, all files originated the same way). The camera is a JVC Everio HD videocam. The videos from the camera are in the AVCHD format and the file type is .MTS. But I stabilized all my videos with VideoPad's “De-Shaker, which produces .mp4 files. I converted the mp4 files using NCH's Prism Converter program into .mpg files. (I will use another editor to pick and choose the final material I will use later.) So, the pictures are 1920x1080x16M jpg files and the videos are AVCHD files converted twice into .mp3 files. Each movie consists of five elements a picture a video a picture a video a picture All evaluations were run on my HD 1920x1080 LCD computer screen. I made my each movie using the .avi output suggested by clicking on the “Computer/Data” output. Of the 4 movies, they all had equal very good quality. On a hunch, I made 3 copies of Movie 1 in other formats: A 5th movie used Movie1 material but producing the video in *.mpg format . The quality was the same as the *.avi output A 6th movie used the Movie1 material, but producing the movie in *.mp4 format.with the “Portable Device output. The quality was substantially poorer than the “Computer/Data” output. A 7th movie used the Movie1 material, but producing the movie in *.mp4 format with the “Portable Device output. The quality again was substantially poorer than the “Computer/Data” output. All 7 final movies were produced with the default parameters. I altered nothing but the output format. The quality sucked on all "Portable Device" method of output. Is this what you might have done? I can post the videos to YouTube if you need them, but I have to say, the VideoPad product seems quite solid. OM

I'm trying to avoid a step. I use Video ReDo to cut and trim individual videos because it's quick and it works. But it won't work wth .avi, .mp4 and some other formats. But it's super and I'm used to it. But when VidepPad Deshaker spits out .mp4 files, I have to convert them to .mp3 with their Prism converter. (I'm not ready to make individual movies yet, so I keep the original vids from my videocam as separate files for now.) How did you get deshaker to spit out .avi files?

Does anyone know if and how I can change the file type of the stabilized video when using the VidepPad's plug-in, (which is VideoDub's Deshaker program)? It seems all the output files are in .mp4 format. Thanks, Old Martian

I have a JVC Everio which shoots in AVCHD and the files have an MTS extention. I just put a small video in the "Files" and dragged it to the timeline, made a video using the .AVI format and it saved it and I played it OK. I just paid for and registered the software about 2 hours ago. I'm happy. +**so far** I have been using VP lightly for about a month, but when registering I cleaned out all traces of MCH on my computer and downloaded the most recent version. (I don't know if the current version was different from what I previously had.) Have you tried to cange the extention from MT2s to MTS? I know the software works with .MT files, although I forgot how I came to have .MT files (maybe some converter). I'm old. I don't remember things... Old Martian