mosslack

Greetings. With the ending of support for Windows 7 and my dislike for Windows 10, I have decided to give Linux Mint a spin. Most things are going well, but after using Videopad in Windows for years, the biggest problem I was having was with video editors. About the best alternative I found was Shotcut. It seems to handle the editing mostly just fine but rendering is a bit slow. Then I discovered that Videopad would run in Linux via Wine and it was my understanding it would work quite well. Long story short, I did the install and it does work. At least for simple videos. The first time I tried to use it for a fairly simple video in video it crashed. I don't expect it will ever run as nicely as it does in Windows, but I was hoping it would be possible to use it as the editor of choice for my YouTube videos. So any tips on things to do to make it run better would certainly be appreciated. Thanks!

The free version of VideoPad is misleading as for one thing the version you download is the demo version. Yes the free version will keep working after the 14 day trial, but features are limited. People should be told that up front in my opinion. That said, I have purchased VideoPad and it is well worth the asking price.

Thanks Nat, that is what I was wondering. I found if I scale and position and then crop, it works much better as I can see how much will show when I'm done.

I have noticed some differences that I'm not sure are supposed to be. when doing PIP. If I use scale to alter the video I wish to insert into another video, preview will show what is at the cursor position on the timeline. But if I use crop, then the preview does not show what is at the cursor, but a view from the start of the video instead. This makes it much more difficult to use position to put the PIP where I want it to be as I cannot see what will actually appear there. I have to use trial and error method to get it where I want it. Is this a bug or the way the program is designed to operate? I am using version 6.30.

Okay, it took me a bit to get this to work, mainly because the effect animation editor is hidden by default. Once I opened that and saw the actual keyframe adder it was easy. This is the line I missed: Click the button in the toolbar to show the animation keyframe editor.

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. After I made the post I thought it might have something to do with keyframes. I will definitely try that out.

Good afternoon everyone. I was working on an outro for my YouTube videos and wanted to copy an effect I saw on one example which was text going away from the viewer perspective. This got me to wondering if it was possible in VideoPad. I've seen and used the Space effect, but that starts at the bottom and goes up getting smaller each step of the way. A good effect, but the one I want starts in the middle of screen and gets smaller each step until it's at the size you want, giving the illusion the text is going away from you. I realize this could be accomplished by doing just that, starting with the text as wide as the screen and reducing the size using another text box, one after another, but this would require a lot of work to get that effect. Does anyone know of an easier way?

I think most do show stereo audio waveforms. I've used a lot of video editors, I must of been thinking of a different one.

Okay, thought it used to.

Did I just imagine this, or did stereo audio tracks used to show as such on the timeline?

Thanks

Any changes in the release version from the beta of v6.21?

Just a test to see if I can reply here. New topic not working for me.

Also FYI, I was able to use the crossfades just fine by unchecking the box to crossfade the audio.

Well, that is what I thought also which is why I posted on that thread before I made a new one.

Okay, this problem is really getting annoying. It started off doing it every now and then, but now it does it most of the time. I add my video clips and then use a transition between them. Looks normal, but when I play it back in the preview window there is a digital noise that you can hear during the transition. The noise does not show up on the sound track while editing, but once the video is rendered and reloaded you can very clearly see the noise in the sound. I was going to add a picture of the sound here, but I can't see how to do that.

Would this problem have anything to do with Videopad adding noise to transitions? I get a weird digital type sound which you can hear when editing, but it does not show up on the sound track until you render the video. It can clearly be seen then and removed by doing another edit, cut before and after the sound and then mute it. I've had to do that on several videos lately. Should not have to do this I don't think.

Thanks, I will give these suggestions a try next time it happens. As I said, it doesn't happen very often as I try to keep my video under 10 minutes on YouTube. Doug

Hello everyone, my first time posting here I think. I found I had already registered so I may have posted sometime before and forgotten. Anyway I tried the free version of VP for awhile and liked it enough that I went ahead and purchased a copy. Mostly my experience with it is positive, but I did experience some problems with the first copy I installed which was v6.01 I believe. I had quite a few problems with it and thought it might be a bad install so I uninstalled it and downloaded a fresh copy for another try. So far this copy has proven to be much better. I do have one annoying problem that creeps up every now and then. Usually when I'm editing a longer video. Normally the building preview message pops up every now and then while previewing the video from the timeline which is normal I assume. The computer I am using an HP laptop with and i5 CPU, Intel GPU, and 4 Gb of RAM. Most of the video I shoot for my YouTube channel is 720P or 360P MP4. The problem usually happens after I've edited a few clips and getting close to the end of perhaps a 20 minute video. Instead of the building preview message popping up and then going away, it seems to go into a loop where the same few seconds of video shows over and over again in the preview window. The sound seems to continue normally while this is happening. I've tried to save the project and completely restart VP, but even that does not help. The loop returns as I start to edit again. The preview goes along fine until it gets to that point and then the loop starts. I can go back to the earlier place on the timeline and that plays fine, but get to that later section and the loop returns. I did export a video while this was happening and the video seems to play just fine. More of an annoyance than a true problem, but just curious as to what it might be. Thanks for any input. Doug

This may sound funny, but that box did not appear until just recently. The third test video I made I saw the box and figured it out. Thanks. I'm liking this better now that I'm learning more how to use it. I'm used to WMM so I tried it that way first. Now I see it's better to add and edit the video segments before you add the title and credit screens. I had some problems with artifacts of bits and pieces of the credit screen when I tried to insert a video clip in-between it and the title screen. Took me forever to get rid of it, but I did.

Hello all, new to VideoPad, but I have purchased NCH software in the past. Good experience with those, but I am having some difficulty with the video editor. First, I am using the completely free version of this software (V 4.14). I have previously used programs like Windows Movie Maker and iMovie to edit videos and have been an active member of YouTube for some time now. I have done more advanced editing in the past using programs like Final Cut Pro, but for now I'm just interested in basic stuff. There in lies my problem. So far I have been unable to edit a text clip I created for an intro I am working on. Tutorials I have read all say there should be a large "T" to click on to edit a text clip, but I have not seen any such item anywhere on my screen. There is a "T" on the text clip in the bin, but clicking it does nothing. In WMM, it was a simple task to create a title placeholder and edit the text each time I added a new video to that series. I thought most simple editors would allow this, but I am baffled by the lack of this feature. Obviously it is possible, but so far I have been unable to discover the secret. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!