Jump to content

CDDavis

Members
  • Posts

    17
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

CDDavis's Achievements

Casual

Casual (2/7)

0

Reputation

  1. I reported the same or similar problem here: https://nch.invisionzone.com/topic/57630-wavepad-hangs-opening-audio-files/ I had to re-install the older version WavePad 17.42 32-bit and it works. I'm also waiting on an answer as I would prefer to upgrade to the latest version.
  2. I'm running Windows 10 64-bit on a very large machine. WavePad 17.42 works fine. I used it constantly without problem as of May 2023, when my project was finished. Since then I have updated WavePad twice without actually using it. I'm now starting up a new project but neither WavePad 17.57 64-bit nor Wavepad 17.54 32-bit will load audio files. Both will record a new audio track, and then it will save it as a .wav file, but after saving, WavePad hangs reloading the file with messages: "Loading Audio File Source" "Please Wait". Nor will either version load a previously created and working .wav file. Switch will read and convert the .wav files to mp3 for example, but neither WavePad 17.57 64-bit or 17.54 32-bit will load the converted file either, it hangs with the same messages. I rolled back to WavePad 17.42 32-bit and it works fine. Help!
  3. DOH!!! Now I see it. That seems to be working... I'll experiment further. Thank you for your patience.
  4. I can't get that to work for me. That's when I started posting on this thread. It doesn't work on the 2nd audio track containing the full length .wav file that I imported from WavePad, it doesn't work on a single clip on the 1st audio track, and it doesn't work when I select all clips on the 1st audio track (highlight 1st clip, go to last clip and highlight with ctrl shift. And because VideoPad is *louderizing* pre-normalized tracks exported from WavePad, I can't find a work around. 😞 In VideoPad, when I right click on the "Sequence 1" tab, all I'm offered is Rename Sequence and Delete Sequence is grayed out.
  5. I agree they both sound equally *loud*. But when I set the normalize peak to 31%, why isn't the resulting volume quieter? I would have thought "normalize X%" means to go thru the entire track, find the peak, compute what X% in decibels is, say => YdB, then go thru the entire track again proportionately reducing the volume of everything greater than YdB to not exceed YdB, and proportionately increasing the volume of everything less than YdB to not exceed YdB - so the whole track has a comparable volume, with proportionate highs and lows, but approximately 31% quieter. What am I missing? And why don't I see changes in the graphs of the audio volumes? -0-0- I have upgraded back to VideoPad 13.28 64-bit. I imported into WavePad 17.32 the entire video exported from VideoPad and used WavePad to normalize the audio track to be half as loud, and that worked as expected. I then started VideoPad, unchecked both auto normalize functions, exited and restarted VideoPad and imported the quieter (normalized) audio .wav file into VideoPad and placed it on a second audio track, and muted the 1st audio track. Without my doing anything further, VideoPad made the entire new imported audio *louder*, as loud as the loudest clips, its would seem. Minimally, VideoPad should not have changed the new audio track at all, right? -0-0- In running further experiments using "clip preview" of the audio file added to the audio file list, and before placing it on an audio track, it would seem VideoPad is increasing the volume when the file is added, even when not placed on an audio track, and even though auto normalize is unchecked.
  6. I have reproduced my problem symptoms using VideoPad 13.09 64 bit, and made a test case for you at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ai3JKaj5JOmo3EVl0y0Xk45aXKCokAi5?usp=sharing As your instructions above were to *not* upload the project file or the output video, I did not. I did however reference them in the "steps to reproduce.txt" file. I did describe the correct result I expected "normalize" to give. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding what "normalize" should sound like. I'm running Windows 10 64 bit on an AMD threadripper with 12 dual-cpu cores, 32GB of RAM and M.2 connected SSDs and ViewSonic VP2770-LED monitors. Let me know if you want anything further. -0-0- FYI, if it matters, I forgot to say that when I recorded the test audio .wav file in WavePad for the PowerPoint slide, I used the 'spectrum subtraction' effect to filter out background noise from my computer fans and also "silenced" some of the gaps. That is what I have done in all my audio recordings, so my problem reproduction steps were done the same way, I just forgot to document that detail.
  7. No I have not. That setting has always been "Automatically normalize" I can't seem to get any change of volume, as-if normalization controls are ignored. I have tried to normalize a single clip and an entire audio track of several clips, but the volume level never changes. I do not experience the "totally silent" symptom mentioned above, but all files (clips) placed onto the sequence seem to have their original volumes: clips I extracted from videos made by other providers are way too loud, clips which I recorded with wavepad are "normal". I expected to be able to normalize the entire track by selecting all clips and applying the audio normalize effect, for which I reduced the limit to 75, but then after applying, nothing changes. I watch the decibel levels and some peaks which max out at the top, never move. Lesser peaks, likewise never move, and the sound is always the same. That is release 13.09+ I'm presently running 13.28+ 64 bit. Do you still advise me to rollback to 13.09?
  8. I am also having normalization problems. I'm running VideoPad 13.28 64-bit on Windows 10. I also have several other NCH products installed. If I delete all the files in the above 2 directories, will I also need to reinstall all my other NCH products?
  9. I really appreciate how you lay out the pros and cons.... thank you again.
  10. That was really helpful. Thank you. Especially the point about how to copy a sequence to a track. And I didn't know there were 64 bit versions - that seems to be a secret 🙂 On your point about "Consider adding narration last, to the main sequence. Narration tracks can be positioned at will. " Some of my tracks already have narration from the original source, so I wouldn't want to risk overwriting them. As for the tracks where I will be adding my own narration, I thought it would be easier to add narration as I made each clip, that way my narration scripts are short and once recorded I needn't worry about them when assembling the final video. Do I lose anything by narrating each clip as I go? What do I gain by narrating the entire video as a last step?
  11. I am a newbie. I am running VideoPad 13.15 on a very large Window 10 machine with SSDs, Nvidia GPU, and AMD threadripper cores. I also have NCH WavePad and Prism and other programs at my disposal. I am creating videos that run about 45 minutes in duration at 1920x1080 The video content comes from numerous clips from various sources, plus video clips exported from PowerPoint, plus single image jpg and png files. Narration needs to be added to most video clips and images, existing narration retained on a few clips. I want to take advantage of transitions and multiple videos overlayed on the same screen in a few cases, and fixed and moving subtitles in a few cases. I don't want to be limited in the effects available, nor do I want to have to reapply those effects if some other video clip is changed or edited. When I edit a particular video clip, I want its new content to be included automatically in the VideoPad project without having to reapply transitions and adjust clip start and end times or lengths where it abuts other clips. I have recently learned that a VideoPad project: containing multiple sequences can not export a single video that combines all sequences containing multiple video tracks can not apply transitions between tracks My “intuition” is that I need a single “low level” VideoPad project for each clip with narration added to that clip, export those videos, and then use “mid level” VideoPad projects to combine low level exported videos with transitions and export those mid-level videos, and finally a “top level” VideoPad project that combines mid-level exported videos with transitions into a final, complete video. Is there a better way? Are there any gotcha’s or pitfalls to be aware of with what I have described?
×
×
  • Create New...