nickbeare

Success at last! I'd been working in storyboard view - it's not possible to expand the timeline in that view (as far as I can see), so the text clips were tiny and it was impossible to manipulate them. I tried using Timeline view and found by chance (you can tell I'm a beginner) that the timeline can be expanded hugely - so it's easy to manipulate the clips. Many thanks for your help, Nat.

Thanks for the speedy and detailed reply, Nat - I'll have a go this afternoon. Nick

I'm trying to add subtitles to a video project consisting of three types of clips: 1 a person talking to the camera, filmed in AVCHD format 2 a person teaching a class, filmed in VOB format 3 some blanks clips with text added I want to add the subtitles to the clips in AVCHD format, to give a written version of what the person is saying. When I start adding the subtitles to a clip, it all looks fine when I first test the sequence - but in subsequent playbacks, the subtitles appear late, and completely out of sync with what the person is saying. The time each clip starts and finishes does not correspond to the show and hide times that I've specified - they start a second or two later, with the gap getting longer and longer as the clip progresses. The problem is still there in Preview and after building a movie in YouTube format. Using text boxes instead of subtitles is not really an option - each subtitle is too short (just a few words of speech) to set the in and out points accurately. I'm using Videopad Professional v 2.41 Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong, or is this perhaps some sort of software bug? Would upgrading to the latest version solve this?