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Hi "or the AVI extension is associated with the wrong (Notepad) program." This may be the problem here and the changes suggested are worth trying. It seems the particular icon selected for the avi correctly shows the letters AVI underneath (other WMP icons that can be used show WMV or MPG etc depending on the file type) but these should be associated with WMP and double clicking them should open the player not Notepad. (Unless I am way of the beam.) If they had been associated with Notepad they would have the Notepad icon and not the WMP avi icon. If I untick the ALWAYS box and set a normal .avi file to open with Notepad it brings up a Notepad warning window immediately saying it is too large to open in Notepad and to use a different editor. However if I set to ALWAYS use Notepad the icons change to the Notepad icon and then the message appears. As Yonargi's icon has not changed and still shows the WMP AVI icon I would have thought that it was still associated with WMP. Just change the program with which you want the .avi to open as per Borate's instructuions and see what happens. Nat

Hi Hmm..Not sure where Note Pad comes in..... ..... Never come across that before. What you do is....Open your project...that's the .vpj file.....into Videopad. This is the file you save from time to time as you edit your film. Save it also when you finish all your editing. (e.g. FINAL EDIT.vpj) Then follow the method and settings in the post to save it to your PC as an .avi file. This should be a finished film that will play on your PC via VLC or Media Player where you can check it plays OK. This avi is the file that you load to the DVD creating program. Nat

Hi Try here for version 2.41 which I actually prefer. Read each box during the download process to exclude any other software they might want you to load like toolbars etc. i.e. click any No or Decline options or untick any boxes if necessary. http://download.chip...or_5697484.html Nat

Hi You can also browse to the NCH folder, open the cache file from there and delete the contenets in the normal Windows way. VP will however delete the "unused" files from the cache..i.e. those not in the currently loaded project. Note that if you are working on several projects and take this option then you will lose files from the other projects. (Note: They will load again when you open those projects later, but that might take some minutes to do so as VP has to reconstruct thje cache and then your work from the info in the .vpj file etc.) The cache can get big. After working on two projects I found there were eventually over 10,000 (!) files there with a total size of 4.1 Gb. That was starting from empty. With so many files, initialising the cache can take a minute or two. Reconstructing one of these projects from scratch from an empty cache took much longer. This was with version 2.41 and there were no crashes. Nat

Hi With 2.41 save to avi by... Click the "Save Movie" tab on the toolbar Click "Computer/Data" tab on the toolbar Enter your save name and destination folder in the box Click the down arrow in the Preset box and select HD 720 (higher if your video is HD 1080) File Format and Resolution automatically fill with the defaults (.avi 1280 x 720-HD 720p) Select the framerate suitable for your system. Click the Encoder Options button Choose between H264 (Native) or MPEG4 (Native) both work OK for me although I prefer H264 If you use this option you can select your quality settings. The default is 23 but selecting a lower value will improve the resolution of the final save but takes longer. I generally use a setting of 10. The MPEG4 defaults to the highest rate automatically. Click OK Leave the sound compresson default at MP3 (Native) and the format as 4100 Hz, 128kb Stereo. Click OK then Click OK The time line will render to the specified folder and a progress bar will appear. When finished the program will allow you to open the folder with your video. UTube I've not saved here for a while but I used their own uploader when I last did for an HD file generated as above. Worked OK.but ndon't expect it to be fast. I tried other UT formats which showed too much pixellation. To save to disc I presume you mean DVD. I never use the VP option. The DVD generation part of videopad only writes the project to the disc from the timeline in a single playable form. It will not add menus, play buttons etc. or add more than one project to the disc. The best way is to save your finished project (or projects) to your PC as separate avis (as explained above) and then use a third party dedicated DVD creator to produce your DVD. This way you can have previews, menus and selection buttons. If you have Windows movie maker then you will probably also have Windows DVD maker which will do the job. However, I prefer DVDStyler which is a free DVD creator program and which gives you full control over nearly all aspects of the creation process. It's easy to use http://www.dvdstyler.org/en/downloads Another free program is the SoThink DVD maker. This does a similar job but, if you haven't bought the software it places a green advert screen between each film (or at every bookmark if you have used these). It's not particularly annoying though, otherwise it is free to use with no time restriction apparently and the results are good otherwise. http://www.sothinkme...ovie-dvd-maker/ Also it's not a bad idea to check it works OK for you by using a DVD-RW disc. That way you don't waste a disc if it's not to your liking when complete. DVD Styler creates a complete DVD copy on your PC for you to test out before it burns it to the disc in the slot. Nat .

Hi "If, on the other hand you have your text scrolling over an image that you have placed on the sequence line, and that image is the last thing on the sequence then the 3.xx versions won't render that final image which is another bug." It seems that version 3.10 does not have this problem although 3.11 and 3.12 do. Nat

Hi The bug I mention occurs in 3.12 (at least) and does not happen in 2.41 which renders everything OK. Your problem might be the uploader you are using. Try Borate's suggestion. i.e. create your finished film and save to your PC. Check this plays OK and then upload it. If it doesn't ,play on your PC then the fault probably lies with VP.(which I doubt) Hi Borate. Have you tried the test with 3.12? i.e. two jpgs on the time line (nothing else) rendered to an HD 720 avi. It would be interesting to know know if you find the last image is there or not. Just checked 3.10. That worked OK as you say. Just checked 3.11. Loses last jpg Just checked 3.12. Loses last jpg Nat

Hi If you are using VP version 3.xx then you find there is a bug here.... If your video consists of a single image it will NOT render. Version 3.xx videopad will ignore the last clip on the sequence line if it is an image. This means if you have just one image on the sequence line it will be ignored. If you follow this by a second image (or a video clip) then it will render OK and the second image (if it last on the timeline) will be ignored. etc. For some reason (probably associated with the image count) the last file on the sequence line will be missed off if it is an image. Video clips work OK though. The way round this if you are making a slideshow or, as it seems in your case, using a single image is to add a blank frame (black, white nor coloured) to the end of the sequence after your image. You can fade out your image into this. If you add a further blank frame this THIS will be missed off and your your image will fade into the first black frame. I have mentioned this in previous posts Nat

Hi Not sure about version 2.22 but I would download a later version such as 2.41 or 3.12 2.41 from here http://download.chip...or_5697484.html There are more features in the 3.xx versions but still some bugs. The 3.xx versions however support (I think) the alpha channel (opacity) in the videos and images used. PNG image files should load OK but the transparent area will appear as white. Just load the image to the overlay track (in version 3.xx this can be any of the upper video tracks) In 2.41 it is below the main video track. aNow left click it. It will preview in the left hand clip preview pane. Any image on the overlay track will take precedence over any image/video on the main sequence track.I assume you want the white area to remain transparent. I haven't tried it but this might happen automatically in the 3.xx versions. In v2.41, under the preview image will be an area with some control settings. You can set the image to be central with the arrow matrix and adjust it to full size and 0% opacity with the sliders. It should now cover up any image or video on the main sequence line. To the right of the arrow matrix is a further box one of which is the green square with the little man that you mention. This button controls the chroma key colour. Click this and it will open a larger "Chroma Key Select" screen . Assuming you want your white areas to become transparent so as to reveal those areas in the video/image on the main sequence line you must set the chroma colour to white.So click the colour box and select white from the selection shown and click OK. Slide both sliders to the left and all the image will show. Now move the lower (foreground) slider towards the right. Any part of the image that it white will become chequered showing it has become transparent. The main track video will now show through in these areas. Unfortunately the effect works on all white pixels (or pixels of the selected colour) so white areas in the overlay image itself will also be incorporated into the transparent channel. That's why chroma screens tend to be green or blue. But it's worth trying. If you want some form of text watermark then just add your text as an overlay and then set the border of the text to white and the body the the text to black. Then adjust the opacity to a suitable low level and finally set the text position. Nat

Hi I think there may be a bug in the 3.xx versions of VP when it comes to scrolling text. I have found that fixed text seems to be OK but when the settings are set to scroll they don't always appear. To check this might be happening set the cursor line to a point in the centre of the "scroll" where the scrolling text is assumed to be central and then click the text box under the main sequence line. It should then be seen on the video preview on the right and also in the clip preview on the left. When I have tried this the clip preview has just been all chequered with no text visible and with no text against the video on the right and not in the thumbnails either. If you are getting this then go into the text settings and reset the prompt to "no scroll" and see if the text reappears. I commented on this some time agao but other users have found it works OK and others found what I found although I then found it didn't always happen! If, on the other hand you have your text scrolling over an image that you have placed on the sequence line, and that image is the last thing on the sequence then the 3.xx versions won't render that final image which is another bug. Your credits will not then be on the rendered video. If THIS is the case then you will need to add another image after the credit frame e.g. a blank black frame. or even two! The last one won't render in the output avi but you will then have your credits. I can't get around or find out why the scrolling text is not appearing but it doesn't always happen which is more frustrating. Nat

Hi Version 2.41 does not support sequences as this feature was introduced with the VP 3.xx versions. "Import a clip" will not work either I am afraid. In the 2.41 version you have to create your movie in one go, saving your project at regular intervals as you work. You can save the project at each stage with a different name giving you several vpj files which you can go back to and re-edit if make a complete hash of the latest, or, like myself, you can save the work with the same name each time so you end up with one final file, (although I generally make a backup.) If you have created three projects from the three sections and saved them, you can't load all three of them into VP 2.41 and join them up. If you have the three projects as projects (vpj files) , then provided you are happy with each of them, you will have to load each project back into VP individually and save it as a rendered avi file (or equivalent) Now you will be able to load each these avi files back to VP as though it were a clip and assemble your complete film. Nat

Hi Just looking through for threads nobody has replied to.. There is no restriction on the length of your project as far as I know, but saving to DVD via the software has encountered problems with other users. Further, it is not (IMHO) fully implemented as you can't have customizable menus or more than one project per DVD. I would suggest you save your project to your PC as an HD avi file, and then use a third party DVD creator to make your disk. This way you can have previews, menus and a choice of buttons which the VP version doesn't create. If you have Windows Movie Maker then you will probably also have Windows DVD Maker which will do the job. If not, try DVDStyler which is a free DVD creator program and which gives you full control over nearly all aspects of the creation process. http://www.dvdstyler.org/en/downloads Another free program is the SoThink DVD maker. This does a similar job but, if you haven't bought the software it places a green advertscreen between each film (or at every bookmark if you have used these). It's not particularly annoying though, otherwise it is free to use with no time restriction apparently and the results are good otherwise. http://www.sothinkme...ovie-dvd-maker/ You can upload the avi to UTube with their uploader. I don't think there is a time limit to their uploads now but possibly other forum users can advise you about this. Nat

Hi What was their answer to the problem? Nat

Hi The thumbnails at the cursor position seem to show that, for some reason, the opacity of the frame in question is 0% hence the chequered frame. More intersting however, is the thumbnail to the left and right of your "Blank" area whci show half an image and half chequered area.. Did you have by any chance this clip on the overlay track with some settings set for a Chroma effect? It's a bit of a sudden change for this to actually be the case but it's just a thought. If it's simply a normal clip that should be there it shouldn't happen. Nat

HI I am assuming from what you have written that you are changing the clip speed prior to adding it to the timeline. (It is possible to do this by right clicking the clip in the media list and selecting "Change clip speed".) In version 3.12 I find if you do this, the "Property" duration of the clip itself remains as it was, but if you drag it to the timeline and examine the duration in Storyboard mode you will see that it has changed. However I find that the frame of the clip now shows a black rectangle instead of the usual thumbnail. This must be a BUG! e.g... I placed a clip on the media list with a "Property" duration of 6 seconds. i.e. Right click and select "Properties" I first dropped this onto the timeline in Storyboard mode to check all was well......it was. The time shown was 6 seconds and the clip played normally. I then deleted this from the timeline leaving it empty.....(Back to square one) Now I left clicked the clip in the media list and selected to "Change the clip Speed" and changed this to 200 so nominally the clip would now play for 3 seconds. The "Properties" correctly showed it to still be 6 seconds duration. I then dragged the clip to the timeline and found that the duration there showed 3 seconds which is what I expected but there was no thumbnail and the frame was black. Switching back to timeline mode at this point, both preview panes correctly showed the clip and sequence to be 3 seconds and also showed the preview image. However the thumbnail line on the timeline track line showed NO thumbnails, just the "Landscape icon". This must be another BUG! I then played the sequence and found that the clip preview then went black. In fact I deleted everything and started from scratch again with the same 6 second MPEG4 clip. This time I dragged and dropped the clip straight to the timeline intending to change the clip speed from there.Unfortunately although the clip previewd OK in both windows there were, once again, NO clip thumbnails on the timeline. I then right clicked the timeline and changed the clip speed to 200% as before. The time bar changed to 3 seconds as expected but there was no green progress bar and the preview was extremely choppy, probably because it was still rendering the speed change. Even after some minutes there were STILL no timeline thumbnails. Switching to storyboard mode revealed that the clip was now 3 seconds long but still with a Black Frame! Slowing down the clip to 50% speed seemed to work slightly better in that, at least there was a thumbnail to be seen in the storyboard frame. But there still no thumbnails to be seen on the timeline track. Playback was still VERY choppy. This MAY be because I was using an HD MPEG4 clip on an older computer, but all I can say is that I have no problems doing this particular manipulation with version 2.41. So IMHO there are a lot of bugs still to iron out in the 3.xx versions. Some them have been mentioned before in the forum, like the black frame that appears when clips are cut and joined and the inability to show some images in the rendered output. It is also too slow to make any editing interesting and some areas simply don't work correctly. I personally find that VP 2.41 is the most satisfactory version to work with. Nat

Hi "But I have two issues I cannot solve: when I try to change the duration of some slides, it simply will not change no matter how much I click." Assuming for a start that you would like ALL your SLIDES...(here I am refering to IMAGES not video clips) to all have the same duration. Then before you add anything to the Media list, click the "Options" tab and under "General - Clips" set the "Default Still Image Duration" to the value you want. All images added to the media list and dropped into the time line will have this duration in seconds as a default. If you change the value after you have loaded anything to the media list it won't have any effect. If you want to change the duration of of separate images then you can do this in two ways. 1) Once you have added the image to the timeline, select it and then drag the right hand end of the frame to the right along the track. This will pull out the frame and lengthen the duration. Use the time values above the track to set the duration you require. Note:You cannot extend video clips to greater than their original length with this method, although you can restore any bits you may have trimmed off. 2) With the images on the timeline, switch into Storyboard mode. Each image/clip will be represented by a thumbnail frame with the duration printed below it. Video clips will show the soundtrack, the images won't. You can select any of the frames and click the duration value shown on it. This will open up a small window into which you can type the duration you want in seconds followed by SET. Images treated in this way will play for the duration that you enter in the box. Note: Video Clips can only be shortened and will then play for the duration selected.(It's equivalent to dragging the OUT marker to the left in the clip preview pane) "...when I bring in a narration file from WavePad, only a small portion of the file shows up on the timeline, and I have to drag it all the way to the end to get the entire file added. There may well be settings etc. I have yet to discover." Load your audio file to the media list in the normal way, then, to add it to the timeline, Right click it on the list and select "Place on Sequence" from the menu that appears. You can now select to add it to various places.(Start.. Cursor...Overlay track....End etc.) If you have positioned the cursor where you want the audio file to start it will load from that point. Depending on your selection it may split the videotrack and insert so it may be best to load it to the cursor position on an overlay track. If the inserted sound track is much longer than the current sequence then it may fill the screen from side to side and reduce the previous sequence in visual length. You will need then to zoom in after you add it. If you are already zoomed in then adding a long soundclip to a point currently on the screen will make it extend off the screen and you will need to zoom out to see it all. (Which is probably what you are seeing.) The best way is to set your cursor where you want the sound to start and add the clip to the cursor position but onto an overlay track which is one the choices. You can drag and drop it but depending on several factors it may simply extend off the screen. Nat

HI Animated gif files won't work with VP but you can add gif files to the timeline. So, if you have your gif files (extracted as Borate mentions,) simply add them one after another (in order) to the end of the timeline. If you then switch into Storyboard mode you can alter the duration of each image - this is printed below each frame - to give the correct animation speed when you play the sequence. By fade-in you probably mean a crossfade (a dissolve effect.) However, a simple crossfade will be difficult to implement as it stands with the images following the last video clip. The reason for this is that the first gif image, being part of the animation, will only be short and VP won't crossfade over more than two clips/images i.e. the last video and the first gif image and the effect can't be longer than the shortest clip/image. VP will therefore have to shorten any crossfade effect to less than 1/10 of a second which will not be of any use. Now, although the Opacity method works OK with video clips, it won't actually work correctly in this particular case as, once again the effect will only work over the duration of a single image. T,he difficulty here again, is that each of your gif images is of very short duration and whilst you can set different opacity levels for each image it would not be particularly easy to do and the final effect would not look good. (Grouping a number of images together using Control+shift only places the effect on the last image.) The way around this is to place the LAST video clip onto the upper video track i.e. the overlay track. So,.... if you have your images on the sequence line following your video clip, simply grab the clip and drag it up to the overlay track. The images will stay put. Now grab the first gif image and drag it to the left underneath the video clip. (So the clip is overlapping.) All the other images should follow as a block. If they don't then use Control+Shift to select them all. (or drag them all individually ) Note that the length of your fade-in will be the the duration represented by the overlap at 10 images/second (or whatever you have set) At this moment the video clip will play over the gif images. Now,...Right click the video clip on the upper track and select "Current Effects Properties" from the list hat comes up. Click "Add Effect" in the next window and select "Opacity" from the list. With the red cursor line for the clip preview positioned to the extreme left, drag the Opacity slider to 100%. Click the Green cross to fix the value (keyframe 1) A small orange square will appear on the horizontal blue line in the box Now slide the red cursor line along the box to a point very close to the end of the clip. It should be at the point where your images start but as you can't see these you will have to guess...you can alter it later. The orange square will turn green showing it has registered. Click the Green cross again to set a second keyframe..(Keyframe 2) Now drag the cursor line along to the end of the clip. Drag the Opacity slider left to 0%. The blue line will slant down now to the bottom of the box from the (now) green marker If you now slide the red curser line back to the left and play the clip you should see it fade out just before the end. Click the "Close button", wait for the changes to register and play the end of the sequence line now. You should see the video dissolve onto the image section. If it isn't quite right you can go back to the effects screen and move the second Keyframe marker left or right to a more suitable place, or you can drag the animation images en masse to a slightly different starting point. Nat

Hi I can't say why they are getting out of synch but perhaps it's the video format you are using. I have added English subtitles for videos I made in French but use the overlay text option for this as I find it easier.(VP2.41) You don't need the in/out markers for the Overlay track option and you can add the same length of text as you would with the subtitle option. Assuming you have the transcript of the speech you want to subtitle, then just mark it up in phrases as you would like it to appear (just as you would with the subtitle option) then create each phrase as a text box. You can alter the size of the text and also have multiple lines, although no more than two works best. These will appear at the cursor position so you can fix the start position for each just by previewing the clip and stopping the cursor at the correct point. If you already have the IN positions listed then you can use the values in the position box under the sequence preview pane to set the cursor prior to adding each block of text. If the one you are adding overlaps the previous box then the previous box can be shortened and so on ensuring that each block of text starts correctly and lasts as long as the speech. If you don't use the cursor idea then once the box has arrived on the track simply drag it along the track to the right spot so it synchs with the sound. You can easily add one box after another and alter the duration of any that are too long or short by dragging the ends in or out. The main thing I find a bit annoying is that there is no character size option using figures, only a slider. These text "clips" stay put. It's worth trying. Nat

Hi The DVD generation part of videopad is somewhat weak and only writes the project to the disc in a single playable form. It will not add menus, play buttons or previews etc. or add more than one project to the disc. Using VP the nearest to having multiple projects is to render all your efforts to your PC first and then add them one after the other to a new sequence line with bookmarks between them. (You can also keep "projects" separate using sequences and then adding the sequences together with bookmarks between them. (Individual projects in effect.) This is a bit like cracking an egg with a sledgehammer except the egg isn't really cracked! The bookmarks will enable you to skip through the DVD from bookmark to bookmark (or, as it were project to project) using the skip buttons on your player, but the DVD will still only start with the first one. Not really very good. The best way is to save your finished projects to your PC as separate avis (or similar files) and then use a third party dedicated DVD creator to produce your DVD. This way you can have previews, menus, background images and choice of play buttons. If you have Windows movie maker then you will probably also have Windows DVD maker which will do the job reasonably OK. However, I prefer DVDStyler which is a free DVD creator program and which gives you full control over nearly all aspects of the creation process. It's not difficult to use and you can add images, buttons etc. http://www.dvdstyler.org/en/downloads Another free program is the SoThink DVD maker. This does a similar job but, if you haven't bought the software it places a green advertscreen between each film (or at every bookmark if you have used these). This is not particularly annoying though as it gently fades these in and out between sections.....a sort of Pearl&Dean , otherwise it is free to use with no time restriction apparently and the results are good otherwise. http://www.sothinkme...ovie-dvd-maker/ Nat

Hi VERY arduous ..... but a good exercise in using the Effects window . The main difficulty when I tried this out on a short clip (my overlay was simply a second clip much reduced to a small square instead of an image of a circle) was that without repeated testing of the main sequence with the overlay you can't tell where exactly where your overlay image is against the main track ,as the effects preview pane only shows the overlay track with its blank chequered background. I found it was mostly a matter of guesswork. If the movement required is steady and straight then it's easier but any complicated motion is very difficult to follow. Nat

Hi Left Click the overlay video to select it. Click the "Effects" icon on the tool bar. This opens the Video Effects pane. Click "Add Effect" at the top and select "Scale" from the list. (Note: You can also select this from the drop-down list obtained by clicking the little down arrow in the toolbar next to the "Effects" icon. However some effects lose the "Force Aspect Ratio" choices going this route.) Now you can alter the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the clip by placing different values in the boxes. e.g. 50% as each value will 1/2 size the frame. Note: THIS "Scale" option affects both axes of the image separately and will enable you to change the aspect ratio of the clip if they are different. If you want to also re-position the clip as well as scale it then instead of "Scale", select "Motion" from the drop down list. Here you can scale the clip in a similar way as above (but with only one value to enter the aspect ratio is not altered.) You can also move ithe image relative to the top left hand corner. A bit of experimentation with the values will show you how it works. The "Rotation" function will rotate the frame in degrees clockwise. To the right of each of these effects is a box with a blue line across it. The length of this box (and line) represents the length of your clip and there is a vertical red cursor line with a bright blue "handle" at the top that can be dragged along to different points in the clip. The clip can also be played by clicking the start > button under the preview pane. By clicking the green cross you can "Fix" the values you have chosen for the effects at the cursor line position. This "keyframe" is shown by a small square (or squares) on the blue line(s). Moving the cursor line to a different point in the clip and choosing different effect values a second "Keyframe" can be created. Your effect will play smoothly from one keyframe to the next.If don't choose to set any keyframes, the effect plays throughout the whole clip. Using keyframes allow you to start or stop the effect at any time in the clip. If you have set any keyframes the small squares can be grabbed with the cursor and dragged to different points to alter the effect, the values in the boxes changing automatically. You can create numerous keyframes at any point along the clip if you wish and create complex movements of the image in the overlay. Just experiment a bit and you will see how it works. You can clear the keyframes for a particular value with the red cross. You can remove the effects with the white "X" You can add more effects to the clip from the drop down list by clicking "Add Effect". Each one will have its own control panel. Nat

Hi It can't be done in VP. Nat

Hi If you are using version 3.xx then you are lucky if you can even get it to scroll in ANY direction! On my system, sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. More often than not the text completely disappears! It only appears if it is set to No Scroll. I can position it and that is all. You should be able to produce a "typewriter" effect if you create an image for every letter addition and change of position and playing each one rapidly in sequence, setting the duration of each image to something suitable. Nat

HI Both myself and Borate have outlined the way to eliminate the faint "still" image that results from using the crossfade effect between the ends of a simple split in a clip or between the ends of untrimmed clips. In these cases the soundtracks are simply added end to end. If the clips have been trimmed in any way and the transition added then the soundtracks are overlapped and play together for the area that has been trimmed off. If only one clip has been trimmed then the overlap of the soundtracks will not be central over the join and will only extend into the untrimmed clip by the length of the amount trimmed off. If you follow the method we have outlined (i.e. pulling the ends of theclips back by at least half the duration of the crossfade) then the "still" images will be eliminated and the soundtracks will be overlapped for the full duration of the crossfade. However, there will be NO fade-in over the fade-out of the two sound clips..they will just play together. If you want the soundtracks to fade in and fade out at the same time (i.e.cross dissolve) then.. BEFORE you add your crossfade to the join in the video add a fade-out to the first soundtrack and a fade-in to the second soundtrack. Make the fades half the duration of your proposed crossfade. Now add your crossfade effect. Now pull back the end of the first video clip to just before the yellow effects bar and pull out the start of the second video clip to just beyond the end of the yellow effects bar. Your sequence will now play without any still frames and your soundtrack will have a correct fade-in/fade-out dissolve. Nat

Hi Open Google Images and search for what you want. Hover the mouse over the image you are interested in and the size will be shown Click the image on the main search page to open it . Right click it and select "Copy". (You can also click "Properties" first to check that the size is what you want.) Open a suitable folder, right click and select "Paste." You can also click the little"Show Desktop" button on the bottom toolbar and paste it there before coming back to Google. Nat