Pete31684

I think the clue is here... "I tried VHS to MP4"

Select the Midi clip then... Editing > Edit. Then in the Midi Edit window, Settings > Play Device. Your midi devices should be listed in there.

@NZOT But did the other version borate pointed you to fix it? Or did you not try?

I tried that. No matter what I do, when VP needs to download that file it just keep downloading it every time. It never creates the directory x264enc7x64 to put it into. The only way I can fix it is to create the directory manually, and put the file in it.

I've fixed it. It does appear to be a bug in VP. You need to manually create a folder in \users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\Components called "x264enc7x64" and manually put the file x264enc7x64.exe in there. Then run VP as administrator. Surely VP should be doing all that itself?

VP V13.21 64 bit. I've just exported a video that requires the above file. VP opens up a new chrome window and downloads the file, which then appears in my downloads folder. VP then correctly exports the output file. All good. If I export it again, VP downloads the file again. There are now two copies in downloads. Every time I export the video, it downloads it again. That in itself is weird enough. But it gets funnier... I disconnected the PC from the internet, exported the file again, and it still downloaded the file, and yet another copy appeared in the downloads folder. Where did it find the file? There was no internet connection. I did a search of the hard drive, and deleted every single copy of x264enc7x64.exe. Searched again, and it didn't find a single copy anywhere. Export the video again, it downloads another copy into my downloads folder. Which leads me to two questions:- 1. Why does it download the file every time I export a video? 2 Where is it finding the file to download when there is no internet connection and every copy has been deleted. One thing I did note is that x264enc7.exe is 1578KB, x264enc7x64.exe is only 571KB

I'm new here, so my opinion is utterly worthless. But I'm somewhat perplexed that there exists someone whose time is so valuable that he can't "waste" any of it learning how to use a new piece of software, but has enough spare time to join a forum with the sole purpose and intent of hurling abuse at the software, its writers and its users. And in an incredibly abusive and rude manner. Strange indeed.

Thanks. I've come up with a workaround, which works fine, but isn't really ideal. I encode in VP as usual, then re-encode through ffmpeg again, leaving all the settings as they are, but adding a command to force the keyframe insertion. Rather than messing with command lines I'm actually using Handbrake which is just a GUI front end for ffmpeg. I see VP actually uses ffmpeg for encoding, it just doesn't bother setting the keyframe interval. I can't see it being a huge job on VP to add an extra single parameter when it calls ffmpeg. But HeyHo, the workaround works.

Newbie here so be gentle. I'm trying to find a way to force VP to insert keyframes every X frames when rendering. It seems to be a common feature of something somewhere because many videos I come across have one every (say) 25 frames, or 50 frames, or whatever, but VP only seems to put them where it needs them for effects. I want to be able to force them to where I want them in addition to these. It's so external video players can seek out frames much quicker. I can't find any settings anywhere that could be related. Does the feature not exist? To clarify, I want to be able to force a keyframe insertion rate in the rendered video. That's it. No need to upload anything anywhere. Youtube wants a keyframe every 2 to 4 seconds in uploaded videos, most (all?) other streaming services require similar sorts of numbers. To reliably "scrub" a video requires even faster, say every 1 second, or even less. VP only seems to put them (in addition to the ones used for effects and scene changes) every many more seconds (I see 9.5 seconds with many settings), which simply isn't fast enough for most purposes. See https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2853702?hl=en-GB "Key frame frequency: Recommended 2 seconds Do not exceed 4 seconds" Unless VP has the facility to force these keyframe inserts it can't even be used for youtube. Does VP have the facility to adjust this keyframe rate? If so, where is it hidden? If it doesn't have such a feature, it seems a massive oversight seeing as youtube, vimeo, and most (all?) of the other streaming services have a specific requirement for it. Or am I completely missing something?