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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?

Thank you very much for this Borace. Here is the state of play: 1. This morning I downloaded the software again, home trial version, as you suggested. It allowed me to do the extraction. 2. I did the extraction but it still gave me the warning that only the section between the start and stop points would be extracted. Having – hopefully – adjusted those points last night in accordance with your directions, I proceeded. And it did the job. So thank you for that Borace. 3. What baffles me though is how those start and end points got there in the first place. That never happened when I did my first little video. Am I supposed to deliberately create start and end points when I make a sequence next time, and how do I do that? I saw nothing about this in the getting started guidance, nor in the help tutorials. 4. Does this mean that I always have to add blank sequence when I make the next video? 5. With regard to the start and end sliders, when I select Sequence they do not show. Only when Clip is selected. Odd? 6. By the way, when I made the change to the end point, it was showing as -141 hours! (not the +17 minutes that my video lasts for). So, for now I should be able to continue using Videopad. One last question: When you save a project does it only create a set of instructions as to where all the different image and audio clips are to be found on my PC? And when I backup a project to a folder, does it actually save the clips to the backup file? Once again, many thanks for your much appreciated help. No way would I have worked out what to about adding a blank sequence in order to be able to see and move the sliders! Thank you very much.

Borate, I do not know if you are just a user like me (but obvisoly more experienced) or a member of the company, but thank you for your advice. I tried savng as other file tyoes before now but it always came back and stopped me due to the end points problem. Now of course it won't let me do anyhting unless I buy. I was just one step away from success. I wanted to show this little movie next week. Not sure if I will be able to go through the reinstall or purchase options that quickly. Can you tell mei f the Home User purchase option will be the same as the one I have been using please - it mentions something about only being able to have one or two audio tarcks. I don;t thnk I will ever need more than one (how can oyu have two audios playing at the same time?). Many thanks, but have to get some sleep now.

I think it worked! I can now set the start and end times of the sequence. But guess what? I then went to export and Videopad said I now have to buy the professional version, because my free trial is up. I didn’t know I was on free trial with a fixed duration! So my project is still trapped inside Videopad. Help! Videopad is givng me almost no time to make the purchase too. Got to be done by 15 December - it is 9.30pm in the Uk right now - to get the discounted price. If I buy it, will my project be safe and let me export it? I am just an occasional home user, in my seventies, who was just tyring to make a couple of simple movie shows for my fmaily at Christmas. Is anyone from Video editor out there to help me? After struggling for two weeks to solve a techncial thing in the sodfware use as a novice, I got help from the forum tonight. (I joined the foum just a few sours ago). And just before I could finally export my little creation, the free trial expired! I didnt know I was on a time fuse. Can I have couple of hours extra just to export my project to MP4 please?

Thanks for the reply Borate. Unfortunately this does not fix it. In the sequence preview, I have no blue line on show below, and no start and stop brackets. So i can't slide them along. My sequence is about 17 minutes long in all, but nowhere can I see coloured brackets. I'm not sure if it matters, but the location of your sequence tab seems to be in a differnt place from mine. Yours sits to the left of the Videos tab, mine sits at the top bar level to the right of Home. By the way, I am in the UK time zone.

I'm new to Videopad but after much effort I managed to create a sequence with photos, music, a couple of my own camera movie clips and subtitles. But when I came to export the project, hoping to make an MP4 file, I get the message: In and Out Points. Sequence Start and End points have been set. Only the section between these points will be exported. If I continue, I get an MP4 with no content in it. So where are these start and end points? I did not set any as far as I know. I cannot see any markers on the timeline. How do I move the points or cancel them, so that my whole sequence will be exported? Before all this, I did a short trial run and made a sequence that exported just fine as MP4 - I don’t think I did anything different for this latest attempt. Any help will be gratefully received. My project is stuck inside Videopad!