StephQ09

Hey, I had this problem too, I've made a few videos with VP already but then one day this happens. Not only did the audio stop, the last clip of my video was missing too even though the clip out point was correct. I tried a few things and I got it to work, I wasn't sure if it was because of what I did but you can try it out. I saved my work, closed VP, deleted the corrupt file, then uninstalled the LAME.exe Then I re-installed it, restarted VP and re-exported the file and it worked. If you don't have LAME you can get it here: http://lame.buanzo.org/#lamewindl Steph

Thanks! This is exactly what I am looking for!

Hi Nat I tried clicking and dragging a clip directly to the media tracks, if I drag it to the beginning (where all my other clips have snapped to) the new clip will cut into what is already there. So if I have a clip say 10 seconds long, and I drag a clip 4 seconds long to the beginning, it will cut away the first 4 seconds of the original clip, and I will end up with the 4 seconds new clip and 6 remaining seconds of the previous one. Also under "Options> Media> Add new clip to the following position" it is already set as "Ask Me" When I split clips to take out a chunk, sometimes, I can't really tell when, the clip on the RH of the split will automatically snap back to the LH one as if they are magnetic and refuse to stay apart. Then I can't add stuff in between. Other times the The only time this is helpful is when I take a chunk out of a clip and I want the 2 clips to come together (and it does it automatically) Any ideas?

Hi I don't use MixPad but I am pretty sure why: Playback speed is the speed it plays for you, it does not change the speed of the actual clip you are trying to change. In other words, if you are watching a dvd say, you have the option to press "fast forward". This will make the movie play faster but the file's speed has not changed. That is what "Playback' is, how to play the file. I think you need to right click or something and look for an option that says something like "Clip speed". If it is a percentage, then 50% will be half as fast (twice as long to play) and 200% will be twice as fast (half the amount of time to play). You want it to be faster, 2 out of 3 minutes is 66% so you want it to play 33% faster so you put in 133%.

Hi I am making a video, you can think of it as the same style as a trailer for a movie where there are lots of clips in a short time frame. I made most of the video, now I want to go back to the beginning and add some clips. In order to make space I tried to drag all the current clips right-ward, so there is more space at the beginning on the left side. However, when I finally manage to drag the clips right-ward, (most of the time it won't work, it will just snap back to the beginning) then I try to drag the audio right-ward as well, the moment the audio and video matches up they all snap back to the beginning. Sometimes its helpful for the clips to automatically snap back but now is not one of them. How do I drag the clips right-ward so I can make space at the beginning for more clips? Thanks

Hi Einstein Thanks, that clears it up so much! I thought this version doesn't have the overlay thing, turns out they just stopped using the word overlay and put it in 'effects'. Thanks! Steph

I know that if I add more clips it will be track 1, 2 etc.. What I am looking for is the "overlay track" so I can make one video play within another. Also "overlay track" does not appear in the grey area above the "track one" in my window.

Hi, I am using a non commercial version of Videopad 3.79, and I can't find where the overlay track is. I have seen tutorials on how to add an overlay track by putting a clip onto an overlay track and another on a usual track, but I can't even find the 'Overlay Track'! Its not on the bottom left hand corner, in my window on the bottom left hand corner are only 2 types of tracks, an audio and a video. No 'overlay track' like in the tutorials. Under the heading Track (between 'Clip' and 'Sequence') there are no such things either, only Solo, lock etc. Also, I was thinking maybe the version changed so that's why. I thought maybe its now called "Paste (overlay)" but its not. I try to click on a clip then right click in the track and select "Paste (overlay)" but it doesn't have the desired effect. What is the difference between "Paste (overlay)", "Paste (overwrite)" and "Paste (insert)"? Thanks

I have a number of different questions so I will list them all here rather than a different thread for each: 1. Moving to start of selected clip I imported one video which I then split into multiple sections. I can click on each clip individually, but how do I move to the start of a particular clip? Say I split the video into 3 clips, I select clip number 3. How do I move exactly to the beginning of that clip? Click and drag on the red line/cursor thing isn't accurate enough. The 'home' button goes to the beginning of the entire sequence and Ctrl + Home goes to the beginning of the video's start point, whatever that is. 2. I am working on a video and I have saved different versions of it. Now I want parts of the video that was saved in one project to be placed in another. At first I tried to just select the file then copy it, open the other file and paste it by right clicking on a blank area and select "paste overlay". Then it stopped working, and then it only goes one way ie I can copy paste from Project A to Project B but not the other way around, and even this method doesn't work all the time. I didn't change any settings or anything. 3. Is there a feature that, or a way to let me do, the following: You know how there are 2 preview windows, a Clip preview on the left and a Sequence preview on the right? I want to use the clip preview to find a place where I want to split the clip at. I want to be able to view a selected clip in the Clip review on the left, then pause the video at the time that I want to split at, with the red cursor going automatically to that spot in the entire sequence so then all I have to do is to click on "Split selected clips". This would be very useful to me because I have multiple clips in the project I am working on, and sometimes I move the clips around. This feature would let me be able to find that position in a clip and I can split it there, no matter where I move the clip to in the sequence. 4. Is there something that would let me cut a piece of the main video's visual part (not the clips) out for a certain duration, and put something else in either a picture or an inserted 2nd video, like a green screen but I could use it where we can't use a green screen? For example, say in the main video there is a girl watching a video on an electrical device, and then the scene cuts completely to the device's screen for 5 seconds. Here I can cut a rectangle shape out of the picture from say 0:03 to 0:08 and insert another video to make it look like she is watching it. If you record electrical device screens with a camera the picture goes weird. This feature would be useful if the scene is hard to utilize a green screen and or we don't have access to one. Thanks