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Thanks for helping me.

Thanks Borate. Maybe I'd be better off starting again after all.

Hi Borate. I did what you said. The result was the MP4 video appeared on the timeline. I could expand it and see the clips and subtitles, and the audio track. But on the storyboard view, I can see the individual clips only in clip preview or sequence preview, not on the storyboard line, and I cannot enter any clip to edit its effects, transitions, etc. Although I can see the subtitles sitting on the clips, they do not show up in the Subtitles tab. Am I missing some command that would open up the storyboard to allow editing as normal?

I'll try that tomorrow. Many thanks Borate. Late in UK now.

Aha! This looks like it might work for me. I'll give it a try. I think what you are saying is: Once I start to split the MP4 input, then story board will appear and I can play with individual images again. Hope that's right. But how do I get to the storyboard in the first place to make the splits? Your post said: For example, here's a fifteen-second mp4... https://content.invisioncic.com/r33241/monthly_2023_03/image.png.ab44ad9df588872b55b97251e9fafeb7.png in Storyboard mode. I can't get my MP4 to appear in storyboard mode to begin with.

Thanks Borate. When you say 'You can edit it just like any other clip', I'm not sure what you mean. Does this mean I can cut up the whole video track into bits, and the audio track too...and in that way could I remove a few individual images? But I don't see how to put any replacement images back in there, as I can't get a storyboard view to work on.

No, it's not there. So I've tried bringing the MP4 file back into Videopad. It's there on the timeline showing the video and audio tacks. But there is no storyboard view that lets me dig into individual images to alter effects, transitions etc, and there are no subtitles under the subtitles tag. Is there some way to make all the individual images and subtitles show up again, in the way that i first created this in Videopad?

Hi Borate. I have tried to look in the autosave area as you suggested. Windows says it can't find the file: C:\Users\terry\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\VideoPad\autosave.vpj Have I done something wrong?

Thanks for this. Looks like I have to start again. I already checked all the vpj files, but nothing was late enough in the creation process to have the music, subtitles etc. I must have deleted the final one by mistake. So bringing the MP4 back in will not allow me to control subtitles etc?

I recently created a video project in Videopad, about 20 minutes long, exported it as MP4. All fine. But then I spotted a few errors in the MP4...but can’t find the project on my PC. It has definitely gone. So, is there a way to import the MP4 file into Vidpeoad and bring the project back from it? Or do I have to go through the very long process of recreating the project from scratch? (I’m in UK, 8 hours ahead of California).

I will do that Borace. I'll probably do some more Videopad work after Christmas and see how it goes. Thanks again for your help and I hope you have a good Christmas. And I just realized I have had your name wrong all along - apologies Borate!

Thanks Borace. I cannot share the project as I did not save that corrupted version, closed out, and went back to the previous OK version and worked from there. So is this problem now resolved, if it is not open a support ticket? https://www.nch.com.au/support/supportcontact.html

No idea whay this happens. I tried the timeline expansion as far as it would go, but it would not reveal the rogue clip, neither would storyboard. It was only visible when the video was played, but then extremely fast. Just have to hope this does not happen again.

I mean the photo images I put on to the sequence sometimes change their order. e.g Stuff on the back end jumps to earlier positions in the timeline. Last night I even had one image that put itself into the transition betwee two other images, but it was so very short lived - a fraction of a secnond, less than the blink of an eye - I could not isolate it in the sequence to delete or move it.

Borace, many thanks for all your help. You have saved my project and got me started again. One other thing I have noticed is that during compiling and then editing a sequence, sometimes the images get all jumbled up and out of the order they were placed in originally. It seems impossible to sort out, and I can only proceed by going back to a previously saved version and taking it from there. Is this a common occurrence?