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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Es scheint nicht...nur Windows oder MacOS. https://www.nchsoftware.com/slideshow/de/index.html

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think I figured out what the problem that triggered that error message was. My video camera records audio at 48khz. My DAW (Reaper) and audio interface were set to 44.1khz. In Reaper the sample rates can be mixed and matched, no big deal, it figures it out, so I didn't think to make sure Reaper and my audio interface were set to record at 48khz before doing these test run videos and audio recordings. Apparently Kdenlive and Shotcut can figure it out with different sample rates, too--neither had any trouble doing a sync, regardless of how many clips I was working on. (Audio for this project is three main tracks with 15 clips per track, plus a couple overlay tracks with just one or two.) But in Videopad, if I imported the audio at 44.1khz and the video at 48khz, I got that error, "No matching sound track found." But after converting the audio files to 48khz with Reaper, then importing the same clip, the sync on a single mic clip compared to a single camera clip worked. So it seems that Videopad will only sync audio if the sample rate matches. I suspect the reason Videopad was able to do some sort of sync attempt when all the files were in one sequence, but took forever and botched it badly, is because it did find one other 48khz clip, probably from my second camera rather than any of the audio-only tracks. I also did a test both on this computer and on a second computer with a fresh Videopad installation where I put 3 of the camera clips and the matching, resampled 48khz audio-only mic clips into a sequence. Selecting either just one or all of the mic clips and trying to do Audio Sync took a while but it appeared to work--however, on listening, only the first clip I selected actually ended up in sync. The second was audibly out of sync like a very short delay effect where it overlaps but sounds weird, and the third was way out of sync like a long delay effect with totally distinct repeat. If I selected the second clip and tried again, that clip got synched, but then the first that was previously synched got out of sync. And my final test was using one clip from the main camera, one clip from the mic, and one clip from a second camera (phone). In that case the mic synched with the main camera, but the phone track remained way out of sync. So as suggested by earlier results and our prior discussion, it does indeed appear true that only one clip can be synched to one matching clip at a time--any attempt to go beyond that, either in terms of other sources or other takes, fails to give usable results. Which means to work with 15 clips I'd have to make one or more sequences just for synching, then move clips over to the main sequence one at a time, and when working with a third track, manually place that track's clip in the main sequence over the other two related clips according to the sync results. The apparent "sample rate has to match" limitation of the audio sync feature doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere that I can find--but it's pretty important, so if it's an intended limitation, better add it to the help files. If it's unintended, I'd call that a bug. Same goes for the problems with synching multiple files at once--that's a pretty big limitation vs. the open-source editors I tried, and it needs to be clearly stated up front to avoid wasting time on this sort of troubleshooting, or to be fixed if it wasn't the intended behavior. Either way, it's an area that needs improvement in Videopad, as it looks like it will be much faster to work in Kdenlive or Shotcut for the initial stage of simply synching up sources. Not sure yet about other types of edits like overlays or pan/zoom/crop effects--I actually think the most user-friendly version of the latter group is in Photostage, unless you need to enlarge.

Only one track was selected. Double-checked just now. Still getting the same result. Started a new projected and tried again. Same result. Bug report time?

Ok, well, that did not work. I added a new sequence and copied one set of clips into it. I tried clicking the camera audio clip in that and doing the Sync Audio thing. It said "No matching sound track found." I tried clicking the mic audio and got the same result. Didn't matter whether the guitar track was present or not--initially I left it there to see what would happen, but removing it didn't change anything. I tried a different set and got the same results. Ideas? It's very obvious in the wav form that the clips I'm attempting to sync are from the same take. Yeah, the camera has more background noise, but the peaks are clearly following the same shape.

Thanks Borate. So sounds like the sync feature works per sequence, and I'll have to create a new sequence for each group of clips to accomplish the sync before putting them all together in one sequence, and I might have to wait to add the guitar track until all the vocal mics are synched. (The help file is rather light on details: http://help.nchsoftware.com/help/en/videopad/win/content_syncaudio.html ). I'll give that workflow a shot and see how it goes.

I'm working with a camera video file with its own audio, plus two separate audio tracks, and occasionally a second camera that gives another video and audio track. I tried right-clicking the audio from one camera clip and one mic clip, about 3 minutes long in both cases, and choosing "Sync Audio". Several minutes later I'm still waiting for a result, and the progress bar is showing maybe a little over 10% done. In contrast, in Kdenlive, including the selection time for setting the reference and the other clip, the whole operation took about 20 seconds. Is it really normal for this to take so long in Videopad? Is there some way to speed this process up? If not, looks like I'll be doing all of my initial edits to line up sources in Kdenlive...and maybe all editing if it turns out faster overall for other types of edits as well. Videopad seems to have tried to sync ALL the audio in the project, not just one clip, and the whole projected was over an hour long, and doesn't just contain two different mic tracks, but also a guitar track, and one short clip from another angle with a mic recording the same source as the other two. The end result was a mess--everything got shifted way over to the right except the guitar. In the end only the tail-end of the guitar track overlapped with any of the other stuff at all. No idea why--is the program thinking it's supposed to align the mics with the guitar? That's not what I had in mind, since the guitar clips are exactly the same length as one of the other tracks, and they had already been grouped with their respective mic clips, so I would have expected the guitar to move with the ones it was grouped with, but apparently the sync thing overrode the grouping, much like the video ripple thing seemed to do a couple days ago.

In the menu there is also an option to "Backup Project Files to Folder". Is there any difference between that and the "Save Portable Project As" option, or are they just two different names for exactly the same thing?

Seems like they eventually solved this problem with one of the recent updates. Thanks to whoever looked into it.

I've run into the same issue. The way I "solved" it was to chop the clip into multiple clips (or for still images, you could also repeat the same clip multiple times for different durations), and only use the text effect on one of them. More options on this sort of thing would be desirable.

Borate, I am not talking about snap, I'm talking about ripple. I just made a couple screen recording clips using Debut, first in the version 11.71 you linked after installing that over my prior 13.08 install, and second in 13.08 after reinstalling over that. I was not able to get the slight alignment shift issue I kept getting before, but you can clearly see moving the audio to overlap with a video clip is treated as a ripple edit, whereas if there is no video clip in the same area of the timeline, everything else stays put. In addition, in 11.71, when I tried clicking "shift" to disable Snapping, since you mentioned that, I got this weird blue highlight thing happening in apparently random places on the timeline, and suddenly the timeline stretched out or I ended up in a different part of it and I lost my place and had to start over. I tried again in 13.08 and in that case, if I hit Shift before selecting the clips (using Ctrl+left click to select two at a time), I apparently couldn't move the clips at all. Whereas if I selected the clips, then hit shift while keeping them selected, it still seemed like nothing was happening, but at least in some cases, when I let go, they ended up moving--but I couldn't tell where they would move to because it didn't show me until I let go. How do I upload the video clips I made of my screen?

On that older version you linked, I kept getting an "indexing video" prompt that goes up to about 30.6% to 32.7% complete, then it reset to 0% and started over. Is that thing supposed to be showing the progress for the whole project, or is it showing for one clip at a time but not telling you which clip it's working on? On 13.08, it just hung at 32.6% and stayed there for a while until I noticed nothing seemed to be changing and tried closing and using the version you linked. In the version you linked, I finally started getting a "video position....1.5% complete" prompt, but it looks like it's going to be a long time before I know if it worked. But even though the time stamps were increasing, the "% complete" stayed at 1.5%, until it suddenly jumped to 2.5% after a while, then 3.5% after a while. Weird. If it's only going to increase in 1% increments, why bother showing the .5%?