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  1. Made a stick figure animation for a song using Pivot Animator and Videopad. Best parts are the guitar solo and the drumstick throw. Rachael (The Happy Song) - A Stick Figure Music Video
  2. Does Default Quality correspond to, say, the Medium Quality option, or is it somewhere between that and the High Quality option as shown in the list, or what? And how do those phrases correspond to the number bit rates below them? It's all rather vague and hard to know what to choose if you don't know what it all actually means.
  3. Basically every export I've made with either Videopad or its cousin Photostage has noticeable artifacts that are not in the source files. I suspect some may be related to things like text overlays and effects, as there seems to be residual bits of those showing on later frames in some cases, but that's just a guess, and there seems to be some apparent randomness to it, like not every single export artifacts in exactly the same ways or places, even though the export settings and most of the sequence remain the same. Anyway, is there any way to get a clean result when exporting? It's aggravating going from a pristine image to distorted blotches showing on what should be a clean, single-color section of a frame. For reference, I've mainly been using mp4 lately as the export format, though sometimes I've used AVI then converted to mp4 with other software. Almost a year ago I tried a bunch of different export options on a different project than the one I'm working on now, and nothing seemed to fix the artifacting, so I gave up, but figured it doesn't hurt to ask before I upload the next one, just in case someone knows how to fix this ongoing problem.
  4. Ok, thanks for clarifying. Seems the method you suggested worked for the fade outs after all--at first I tried to choose the transition type before the "all selected clips" part and it closed the window before I could choose the "all selected clips" option, so I had to go back in and try again in the order you wrote. It's weird that you can't achieve the same thing with fade ins, though.
  5. The fade ins already exist and were applied simply by clicking the Fade in icon at the upper left of the clips. If I click on the FX icon, I don't see any Transparency effect applied, just a scale effect that I put there and that should remain. I don't see how applying a Transparency effect is going to help when I already have a fade in or fade out that wasn't created using that effect, and I'm trying to remove it. I tried using the Transitions > No transition > apply to all selected clips options but it did not work except where two clips were touching each other and I presume effectively crossfading. I do not want to apply removing all these fades to ALL clips in the sequence because there are other clips that should have fades. So as far as I can tell, except where two clips are touching each other, there is no way to accomplish this but to click one fade corner at a time and remove it manually.
  6. I have a project with various nonadjacent clips used as overlays. Some were given a fade in and out, others were not, and I wanted to make them all match to have no fade after reviewing how it looked. But I don't see any option to remove all at once. I can click one fade and get that one gone, but do I really have to do that for every single fade in and fade out? I do see a way to remove transitions, which takes care of the fades where two clips touch each other, but it has no effect on the fade in or fade out where there is no adjacent clip.
  7. nzot

    Videopad updates

    Why isn't 32-bit vs. 64-bit indicated on the download page with separate links for each? Only references to 64-bit versions I've seen as far as I recall have been in your posts on the forum.
  8. The thing is, I'm not necessarily applying a transition at all--the program is at times doing it on its own, over all the slides, without me asking it to, in spite of my setting the preferences to not automatically add transitions. It seems to be basically redoing all the transitions in the project after I make a change, with no obvious reason for doing so. Similarly, the duration problem is something where I have a default set, then occasionally I make one slide different, but then the program starts making all the new slides the same duration as the one I did manually, even though I didn't say I wanted to change the default duration.
  9. Es scheint nicht...nur Windows oder MacOS. https://www.nchsoftware.com/slideshow/de/index.html
  10. I've had a recurring problem over as far as I can tell all the Photostage versions I've tried from 9.33 onward. Every time I make a change it suddenly wants to update all the transitions between all the slides in the project, even though I unselected "add transitions automatically" in the options. And I specifically removed all the existing transitions before. But nope, when I removed a slide or changed a duration, Photostage wanted to make a bunch of transitions again. What is going on? How do I stop the program from doing this over and over and over again? On a side note, I've also had issues with slide durations. In spite of having a default still duration of, say, 2 seconds specified in the options, Photostage would decide to start using the 15 second duration I used for one particular slide I inserted from that point on, and then I'd have to manually fix it. The reason I bring this up in the same thread is because in both cases the options don't appear to be doing what they are intended for--to set default behaviors so you can predict what the program will do when you do something. So...anyone else notice these bugs in working with Photostage? Any suggestions?
  11. I have been having this issue as well. I can't see any rhyme or reason to it other than videopad seems to go to extremely high CPU usage at times, and I figure that must be causing the freezes on export--sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, location in the timeline/project isn't always the same. But why it's happening I'm not sure. There was one time recently I used the "clear unused cache files" for the first time (maybe a week ago) and it told me it cleared 59GB! (Had a similar issue in Photostage months ago, but that got fixed with an update.) I did my exports with v13.21 so the freezing frames are definitely not solved yet.
  12. I had issues with this. If the sample rate (48khz vs 44.1khz etc) is not the same, the sync will just fail and you won't know why. You have to make sure the sample rates of both sound sources are the same first. I did this via Reaper, which can import all kinds of things (including video, though only the audio will be visible to you if you don't set it to show the video window) and export to basically any format (including video formats like mp4, though you can just strip out the audio as well). The typical "standard" for video is 48khz, while audio is 44.1khz. Of course in reality it depends on the particular device, manufacturer, settings, etc.--there really isn't a true standard these days.
  13. I had already done the "clear unused cache files" a couple times. That doesn't seem to fix it, though I wondered if it had something to do with triggering it. And today there's a new twist--took another video from an iPhone, added it to a project, and while most of the project audio later disappeared, that particular file is showing a weird square wav form, like it's clipping hundreds of times. The "normalize" option for "external" audio is not checked, as I turned that off a long time ago finding it just makes everything clip, so that is not what's causing it. Oh well, reinstall again and see what happens. Sure would like to finish this tonight.
  14. I have a project in v 13.21 where the audio from video clips goes blank (flat-lined, no visible wav form, no audible sound), apparently at random, meaning I haven't seen an obvious pattern of events that trigger it. Reinstalling (64-bit version) seemed to "fix" it (restarting did not), but it happened again just now. Any ideas what is causing this? It's rather frustrating to have worked on something for hours and then suddenly not be able to export it because the audio is just gone. I already reported the bug but clues as to what the cause is could help get things done.
  15. I'm not sure about the current version but in 9.33 I was able to do a 45-minute project with over 2000 pics and clips...in spite of issues it had with rebuilding the cache on every undo and green screens on project exports that i could only solve by reinstalling. I get the impression there's no hard and fast limit, but the bigger the project the more crashes and bugs you'll run into. So since then I've been splitting chronologically by month or whatever makes sense. Usually that's in the 50-200 range. What would really help is being able to open photostage projects in videopad.
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