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  1. Hi OK.Here's what you do... You must be in timeline mode. Don't put the clip to be edited on the sequence line, otherwise you will have to remove it later.(It doesn't matter if you do-it's just an extra step to take it off again) Now left click your clip on the media list and it will appear in the left hand preview pane with a row of thumbnails under it. Move (drag) the red and blue In and Out flags to the position you want. You may need to scroll the pane left or right with the scroll bar at the bottom to see its full length. The selected piece of the clip between the markers will be shown with a green band along the bottom. Now immediately beneath your clip in the centre of the lower panel, are two boxes displaying the position of your markers. To the right of this are the in and out flag buttons and to the right of these is a button with a logo of a piece of film. Click this button and your section of film will be copied to the media list, from where you can drag it to the sequence. Alternatively you can set the markers and then click the green arrow which will directly place the clip onto the sequence. That's the method you were looking at. As an alternative method you can also directly edit the film clip when placed on the sequence line by dragging the ends right or left to the desired point. There is no need to involve the in/out markers. Or , if you need to be more exact, you can play the sequence in the right hand preview pane and stop the red cursor at the desired point. You can adjust this point with the <> buttons to either side of the triangular Play button. Once you have the position set you can then split the sequence with the "Split" button on the left, followed by removal the unwanted sections. Note that in these two scenarios you are not actually cutting or creating a new clip as the first procedure does. Consequently in the event of a mistake (even if you have apparently deleted the unwanted bits) you can restore the clip to its full length again by pulling out the ends of the section left behind. Hope this helps. Come back if it's not clear. Nat
  2. Hi Not an expert (whatever it might say ) but if you are refering to the gif-avi conversion, I think having a transparent BG in you gif may have confused the issue somewhat. For a test, I have just added a gif with a transparent BG (a filled red circle on a clear BG) to the VP main sequence. The BG came out black. I then used the same .gif as an overlay, both against a white frame and a black frame. Each time is appeared with an opaque black BG. This would seem to suggest that adding transparent .gif files to VP will simply render their transparent bits black. I should add that it was a bit of an experiment as I never use transparent gifs in my videos. I have converted animated gifs to avis with the program I mentioned and they have worked, but I have no idea where the green came from. If the converted avi animation now simply has a green BG it might be worth try to render it transparent with the VP chroma option if, indeed this is what you are wanting.You would have to place it on the overlay track. Then..... Click the overlay. Click the BG to select that green colour which should now become a B/W chess board. Click the colour square and select white. Click OK.Slide Background to 0 and foreground to 100.Click OK. As another test,and doing the these actions, the gif mentioned above (appearing as black rectangle with a filled red circle in VP) was added as a full sized overlay image over a normal video clip placed on the sequence track. By setting the BG chroma of the overlay gif to white it was rendered invisible in the sequence. The result appeared as a red circle on top of the video with no trace of the black BG. Nat
  3. Hi Although you can add a .gif image to the sequence line OK, an animated .gif file will not play. Only the first frame of the animation with be shown. However you can easily convert the animation to an .avi file which should load and play. Try Beneton's Movie GIF program whch should do the conversion. http://www.benetonsoftware.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php Nat
  4. Hi Glad it's sorted OK. Storyboard mode is quite useful for debugging. A clip fraction that will hardly be noticed in timeline mode unless you have zoomed right in will be easily visible on the story board and deleting it is far easier. Nat
  5. Hi From what you describe it would seem that you have moved or removed the original video clip/s from your PC. During the process of editing you load clips from your PC onto the media list for you to use. VP creates a copy list of these clips and their location along with files detailing how you edited them. This your cache file. By default VP empties this cache file when you exit the program but does keep a temp project file available so that it can rebuild your film in the event of the PC crashing. However during your editing you must (or should) save a dedicated copy of your project at regular intervals. Also if you are not editing several different projects then use the option tab to set the cache as NOT emptying when you close VP. Doing this will enable your project to load faster. Opening VP and then loading your project (the .vpj file) will refill the cache folder (update it) with all the clips but...only if you have not moved or deleted the clips. The items names will appear on the media list(as they are saved in the project data) but if you have moved or deleted them they no longer reside where VP expects to find them so they print up in red- and VP warns you that they are missing- the clips appear as blanks in the sequence. So if you have deleted the clips or moved them you will need to either reload them or move them back to the location they were when you saved your project. Once you have done this you can either start again and reload the project from the .vpj file when all should be well or reload the missing clips back to the media list. They will appear listed twice but the sequence will have been restored. If you click on the missing item in the media list you can select the option to "Browse to the file with explorer" but only of couse if you haven't deleted it. I should add that usually I keep ALL the clips in a project in one file containing separate folders for video clips, the images and sound/music etc. and when I have finished editing a film I usually save off that folder as well as the project file to a data DVD (when necessary even 2 DVDs) along with a short text file with details of where everything was originally. Its then a simple matter if I need to do any re-editing etc. to load the folder back to the location mentioned and open the project file. Hope this helps. Nat
  6. Hi Imjohn "If I could save the VideoPad file WITH the chapters intact, I could use another DVD burner to create the disc. I don't understand why that's not possible. Also, I don't know why NCH doesn't include a Save ISO option." VP v2.41 does enable you to save your project as an ISO file. Click "Save Movie" Click "Disc" Select "Make Data Disc" Browse to the output folder and give your project a name. Enter Disc name Under Burner click the down button and select "Image file" Now select your desired presets and parameters and click OK..(I set HD720 etc.) On my PC I am now presented with my Vista "Video" folder in a normal navigation window but I can simply select "Desktop" if I want.... (Don't know why I had to choose the Disc option in the first place....) Enter your project name (again? as the default name is mydvd) The file type is ISO Image (.iso, .img) Click Save to convert the video. I have tried this with a short MPEG2 clip but the resulting .iso file, when burnt back onto to a DVD (using Windows DVD maker) was CRAP! The .iso can be set to open in VP and when this is done, a converted .avi copy was placed on the desktop....this also was CRAP! Another copy is added automatically to the media list. Played in VP on the sequence line it was also CRAP....actually SILENT CRAP as it seemed to have lost its soundtrack. I tried again using a lower compression value (setting 10).....result .....C-R-A-P Perhaps my settings weren't right..I don't know. So,anyway the option is there..perhaps it will work for you. Nat
  7. Hi Sorry that didn't work. "..... when I select "HD 720", it insists on setting the Frame rate to 25 PAL. I can't select "HD 720" and a frame rate of 29.97 NTSC or 30..." You are correct it does this but you can select HD720 as well as 29.97 NTSC; it's just that the Preset HD720 box changes to read "Custom" but the resolution box stays as 1280 x 720-HD 720p. However as your frame is 1920 HD I can only say that that format (H.246/MPEG-4 AVC 1920 x 1080 file)just doesn't play on my PC without slowing down and getting terribly out of synch. It's the main reason (after a lot of tests) that I shoot HD at 1280 x 720 and convert) I can only think that MOV files must be similar. Hope you find something that works. Perhaps NCH could comment on this??? Nat
  8. Hi Can't think what you have actually done. It sounds a bit odd from your description. My best advice to anyone creating a project is to regularly save your progress. Just click "File" and then "Save Project File" or "Save Project File as" This will ensure that if you cock up (or your system goes mad) you can easily load it back again. What has actually moved? If the program is working correctly you can't "Cover" the data on another part of the sequence, only displace it. You can independantly move unlinked sounds clips or overlays however. Start by switching into Storyboard mode. This will enable you to see what clips are where in relation to each other and you won't need to zoom in as all the clips are shown as a single frame. Now you should be able to see which video clip/s are out of place and you can drag and drop them back into position. If you have unlinked the sound from these clips you might have more of a problem...1) to recognise them and 2) to get them back into position. You can still drag and drop them however. You can check the sound clips by playing them in the left hand preview pane. The difference in this mode is that sound clips are compressed visually to match the frames which, of course have differend playing times. I can't say why sections of your sequence play in milliseconds unless you have altered their playback speed. Check the value shown in the small box under the frame. Has it the correct value? Click on a clip that seems to play too fast and then the Effects tab. Open the "Speed" effect (V2.41) and then verify it is set to 100% The other thought is that you may have inadvertantly Split a bit of the clip off and or dragged one or other of the clip ends in, and so shortening the clip. To set this right (if this is the case) then you can simply go back into Timeline mode, click to select the clip that is too short and drag one or both ends out to extend it back to its full length. Note that even if you spit a clip and delete one of the bits, it still remains as an invisible "whole" clip and can be easily restored as noted above. Nat
  9. Hi I am using VP version 4.21 and the clips from my camera are H.246/MPEG-4 AVC. Full HD 1920 x 1080p 60 fps video. These are similar to your AVCHD files. MPEG4 files will load,play and be can edited in VP. However you need a reasonably powerful system to play and edit them without seeing the video lagging behind the sound which has been my experience. Because of this. I convert all my MPEG4 to MPEG2 and thse edit with no problems. Try converting your raw files and see if there is any difference. Nat
  10. Hi As you correctly say you can link a short sound clip to a video clip provided it is shorter than that clip (and provided the default option to do so is set.)This also works over multiple tracks. A sound clip longer than the video clip cannot be linked though. However a longer music clip would not (IMHO) need necessarily to be linked to the video as you can quite easily move it left or right as a complete unit to accomodate any edits of the unattached video. If the music has to be matched to the visuals then setting them exactly in synch is not a particularly difficult task. In fact nine times out of ten it's the visuals that have to be matched to the music and they can easily be shortened or lengthened to achieve this. What is annoying is if you have several sound tracks made up of lots of short effects that overlap each other as well as the video clips with THEIR sound track - and I have just completed a long film like this, - if you find you have to add a further clip to this sort of sequence somewhere in the middle, it does tend to mess things up as the video together with its soundtrack is displaced to the right from the point of insertion but all of the carefully positioned sound bites on the other tracks don't. (It's even worse if the shorter sound bites have been linked to the clips. ) As you can't link any clips on the sound tracks horizontally in order to move them up en masse it can be a problem. The only way around it is either to forget the clip you want to add entirely or go to the hassle of moving each sound bite up individually the length of the displacement, (and do this for each soundtrack as well.) Linking all the clips on a single track (as one does in a word processor...indeed THIS one,) just to move them about would be a very useful feature. Nat
  11. Hi "One thing I've noticed is that the recorded disc is recorded from the center of the disc out towards the edge and the outside area is blank." As far as I am aware this is normal. DVDs and CDs are read from the centre outwards and are consequently burnt like that. All mine are like this..and they do play. "The disc will playback on the PC, but without the chapters (don't know if that's normal.)" Again, depending on what type of DVD player your PC is using you may not be able to access the chapters from a menu. However I think you can skip from chapter to chapter using > or < button if your player has one. Unfortunately the DVD creating part of VP won't create menus which would be very useful. With regards to wasting DVD discs, you may be better off burning to re-writable DVDs (DVD-RW) as if there is a problem VP will erase the disc before re-burning with any new settings you make. If you have another DVD burner which you know works, then you could save your film to your PC. Click "Save Movie" Click "Computer/Data" Browse to a folder to recieve your film (Easy to use is the desktop) Click the drop down menu for "Preset" and select HD 720 (or the format of your choice) This, (for my movies/slideshows) shows avi as the container. Set your frame size (Resolution) or accept the default. Mine would be 1280 x 720 HD. Now click the "Encoder Options" button followed by the "Video compression settings" bar. Slide the tab on the slider to the left so the reading is 1.0. (or enter 1.0 into the box marked Quality. OK OK Your film will be created on the desktop (or your folder) from where you can play it on the PC to check the quality or save it to disc with a different burner or program. Originally I used Microsoft DVD creator as this would create menus. However I found the quality was not always particularly good as from what I have managed to find out the program converts to WMV first and then to VOB. Whatever the case some areas do have compression artifacts. I seem to get better DVD quality if I burn the avi to disc using a free program called Sothink Movie DVD Maker.This is free, seems to work OK (apart from an advertising banner that appears between items which some find a bit intrusive..unless you buy the product) and will present your different films from a preview menu of contents. Nat
  12. Hi No idea what the problem might be unless it is your DVD player. You don't seem to be doing anything incorrect. I have made films for both PAL and NTSC systems that work fine. I use VP. Version 2.41 and don't do anything different to what you have outlined. i.e. Edit your clips/images to create your movie on the sequence line. These are normally either MPEG2 or MPEG4 video clips with (when I use them) JPEG or BMP stills. Click the "Save Movie" tab Click "Disc" Select PAL or NTSC depending if you are in Europe or US. (Check this is correct) Select Normal or Widescreen. Under advanced settings select "Calculate bit rate automatically" Click OK. Click OK. If you have no bookmarks there will now be a window asking you want to continue..otherwise go back and add bookmarks. Insert a DVD disc and it should then burn, verify etc. I can anly add..Does the DVD play on your PC OK? Have you tried other DVD players. Nat
  13. Hi "Perhaps somebody else can suggest an alternative.....This is far from an ideal solution." I should add that you can process your clip externally from VP (or internally if you load the filter) using a "face/object" masking filter from here:... http://www.infognition.com/VirtualDubFilters/processing.html Look for NVeilerFilter It will need to be unpacked and activated following the instructions in the accompanying PDF file. This should work if you pull your clip into VirtualDub. On the other hand VP is supposed to be compatible with VDub filters so you might be able to add this filter to the program effects database and use it within the program. I haven't tried it so I don't know. Nat
  14. Hi The image overlay, as you correctly say can be placed in one of nine positions in the frame. It can be resized but its position will not change relative to the moving scene behind it i.e. the video clip placed on the sequence track. It would seem from what you are saying that you would like the overlay to move with the video to keep a particular part of that video hidden. I don't think this can be done per se. (But I am quite willing to be shot down on this.) The nearest effect that you might obtain that I can think of is to load your video clip as an overlay. Make it full size and set it against against a blank clip on the main sequence track. Then use the chroma key effect to "blank out" the section that you dont want seen in the overlay. (This will have to be done first) Unfortunately this will only work on an area (or more specifically AREAS) with a specific colour and furthermore you cannot define the perimeter of the area that you want to blank. So in general I am pretty sure it won't be of much use. The idea is that the overlay will play as the actual clip, with the chroma part transparent allowing the blank main sequence clip to show through. The problem with the idea is that other areas of the image with the same hue also behave in the same way. Perhaps somebody else can suggest an alternative.....This is far from an ideal solution. Nat
  15. Hi There is another possibility for your pixellated output from VP. It's just a thought.... Once you have edited your film, save the project and then create a copy on your PC by clicking the "Save Movie" tab on the tool bar. Now click the Computer/Data tab, followed by selecting the Preset choice "HD 720". (This is the size of my movies in this case) Now click the "Encoder Options" bar followed by the "Video compression" button. Slide the "Quality (Ratefactor) to the left to show the value 1.0. followed by OK and OK. Create your film onto the desktop. (Or wherever you like) This will take quite a while to render depending on its size..perhaps several hours. Sliding the tab to the left will decrease the compression in the output film. Sliding it to the right will produce a film that is nothing but mush. :-) (Interesting to try this) Using this procedure, the output is an avi H264 native file (quite large)and the result should play OK in Media player or Irfanview. From this you should see if it is any better than what you have been getting. Now...Although the VP output to DVD is excellent, there are no menus on the disc which I find a drawback. In the past I have suggested that your DVD might be created with the Microsoft DVD maker which has menus but after using this for some time I think the output is not always that good. However recently I tried another DVD maker (freeware with the option to upgrade) called "Sothink Movie DVD Maker" This has a number of nice menu BGs that are easy to set up and the output IMHO seems better than the Microsoft program. It may be worth having a look at it. (It puts up a short duration info screen between your films but this is no great drawback. Nat
  16. Hi MPEG4 and MOV are just containers for almost identically compressed video files so playing and rendering difficulties if there are going to be any, might, I would think, be similar, particularly with a less powerful PC. In the rendered film compression artifacts seem to occur most often when (and where) the video has less detail so your 16 seconds in might correspond to such a film section.(???) I would still suggest converting the MOV files to MPEG2 format and having another go. I am not sure if the converter I mentioned above will convert MOV files but its free so give it a try. Nat
  17. Hi Normally wmv files open OK in VP. I have used them quite often. Could be that the ones you are trying to edit have a different makeup. I believe that there can be multiple streams in some wmv files that make converting them difficult, but I wouldn't really know. I would, however suggest that you try to convert them to another format other than avi - I would suggest MPEG2 although this will, from my experience result in some loss in quality as you will be recompressing an already compressed file if it is then edited and saved to DVD it may look even worse. You will have to suck it and see. Prism may do this conversion but I use this free converter (Any Video Converter) and it may do the job if Prism won't. Its worth a try anyway. Very easy to use. Just load your wmv file and set the output to MPEG2 with the same size settings (it's all adjustable) etc. Get it here...... http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ Hope this helps Nat
  18. Hi I think this problem is linked to the format of your video and its aspect ratio width/height. 720 x 480 video has an aspect ration of 1.5 whilst the VP overlay screen would seem to cater more for the usual formats of 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720 whose aspect ratio is 1.77 This means that when your video appears in the VP preview pane it is resized to fit top/bottom but owing to its shorter width it shows a black border on the left and right. This black border is, however, still part of the image that is displayed and this includes the overlay also. Placing your text in the bottom right corner will correctly display it over the video image but if it is too long it will spill over into the black border area which is still part of the image. If this does happen you can get around it by either repositioning your text in the overlay (say, bottom centre) or reducing the font size or text length. If you save your project as a 720 x 480 customised output, it does seem that the video is resized to something slightly different. It would seem to me (following a few tests on my PC with some 720 x 480 clips) that although you see the IMAGE AREA as 720 x 480 in the preview, it is actually displayed in a different format (i.e. aspect ratio) which includes the borders. During rendering it is this larger area that is reduced to your custom screen size as the WHOLE FRAME is reduced. As a consequence your displayed image gets smaller. The overlay, being already in the larger format is also reduced but ends up in a proportinally different position from what you saw in the preview.(This is just a guess on my part so I may be completely wrong!) From some tests I have done you should (might) get a better result by setting your output to:- Custom 320 x 240 (YouTube) Custom 768 x 576 (TV_PAL) Custom 640 x 480 (NTSC) (Depending on your country) These are the closest to 720 x 480 and all have an aspect ratio of 1.33 If you pick a different physical size for your output try to keep the ratio width/height to 1.33. I did these with a 720 x 480 video clip with overlay text added to the bottom right hand corner. This was saved to my PC several times as an avi with the above custom settings. In each case the result was OK, the text remaining over the image. In other settings (which had a different aspect ratio) and with the same VP preview, the text spilled into the border as mentioned above. Hope this helps Nat
  19. Hi I can't say why your images are not appearing in your finished movie. It may be a PC problem linked to it's processing power during the film rendering process. I think there was a similar problem expressed on the forum earlier. I have tried to emulate it at my end but I am afraid mine work OK. (Sorry! ) Note. I usually convert my MPEG4 video clips to MPEG2 clips as thse don't suffer from synch problems and they always seem to work OK. I am happy to be shot down on this statement. I don't think the 8 Mbyte size of your still images matters a great deal. I regularly make DVD slideshows of images that are 10 mega pixels and more in size, and they work just fine. However the ratio of height/width of the image needs to be the same as the video you include in the presentation in order to avoid black borders appearing. I find JPEG images work like any other still image in VP. So I can't see that as being a cause of your problem. One point with regard to borders; If you use any effects like zoom then remember to click the "Original proportions" button to maintain your frame ratio. However as your small Mbyte images work OK and you are happy with them that's fine. Again, mixing video and images shouldn't be a problem, and I have made quite a number of films with VP that are mixtures.(Useful if you can't reshoot a clip of, say, a building. You can at least insert a still image you may have and add a gentle pan or zoom to it and so maintain a "video" effect.) More importantly, with regards to overlays and transitions. Transitions are only applied to images/videos placed on the sequence line, they dont apply to the objects on the overlay track. These are OVERLAYS and have no connection with the sequence line clip (even when linked,) excepting that they play at the same time. The only transition effect for these is the fade in and out option and this is specific for the overlay. Even if you place the overlay image against a blank frame so that it seems to be part of the main sequence line, and apply a fade in (cross fade) only the blank frame will dissolve, your overlay will not alter, it will just appear suddenly. (The fade in and out for the overlay would be difficult to synch with the transition applied to the main sequence.) So my advice is to try this:- Convert your video files to MPEG2 format, and add to the media list as normal.( As I said, I feel MPEG2 takes less processing in VP but it's a personal thing.) In a separate image editing program, (you could use Irfanview to batch treat your still images,) change the ratio height/width of of the stills to match the ratio of your video clips. They dont have to be the same physical size, just the same shape, although being the same size does help. Add the images to the media list. Create your sequence of video and images by dragging and dropping them to the sequence track. etc. Edit lengths, sound track as needed and add the transitions where required. This will be your basic sequence. The transitions will only apply to the main sequence track. Now add the overlays. There is no need to add an image as an overlay if it could simply be added to the sequence line in the first place, unless it specifically needs to appear OVER the main sequence line content. If you do use overlays just remember that they won't be affected by any effect added to the sequence line, only by those you set in the overlay option panel. Check that the result plays as you want it to in VP preview and then save to PC or disc. I like to save initially to a DVD-RW disc as if it doesn't play correctly I haven't wasted a disc. If it works OK it's a simple matter to copy the AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to a new DVD disc. Sorry...Long winded reply....Hope it helps anyway. Nat 1)
  20. Hi I am going to assume you are using large format MPEG4 clips. There are many comments on the web re. synch problems; visuals lagging behind the sound etc. NCH say this is a PC performance related problem and this seems logical as the program has to unpack the MPEG4 container and display a reduced image for each frame of the film as well as get the sound in. The sound is relatively simple but bigger image sizes take longer to process. The visuals will naturally tend to lag behind the sound. Whatever...you do need a pretty robust system to edit video. This lag problem is the same for me, and my system is not THAT slow. On testing in VP I found that a 10 second MPEG4 clip 1280 x 720 HD (Not the biggest format from my camera) dropped 3 seconds between the image and the sound and this lag got corresponding worse with longer clips. Other players had a similar problem. Although VP will edit MPEG4 clips OK I get round this particular difficulty by converting all my MPEG4 clips to MPEG2 clips of the same size. definition looks still looks OK. The colours look better and the sound seems clearer and the clips play and edit and render just fine in VP with no lagging at all. Try converting your files using "Any video converter". It should solve your problem and its free. It should make a difference http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/ Nat
  21. Hi OK. There is a sort of work-around for this but you will need a mouse with a wheel. Click the green Plus in the overlay track and enter the text you want to display. Click the respective arrow in the position matrix square so it dispays in the position where you want. Now slide the size slider back to the left to reduce the size of the text. Make sure the slider is the last item controlled by the mouse or this may not work. Now roll back the wheel a notch at a time. The text will enlarge a step with each notch. (Rolling forwards will reduce the text in size.) Count the notches used to get the size of text required and do the same process for each batch of overlay text. It's probably the best you will get without numerical font size values. Nat
  22. Hi Check the "Options" tab on the tool bar. Now click the "Other" tab. Look at the second option on the list."Add new clip to the following position." Normally this is set as "Ask me". If you add your clips automatially by selecting batches from the media list and this option is set to "Beginning of the timeline" then the selected clips will be added to the sequence in the reverse order. Your video will, in effect play backwards. You need to add your clips to the "End of the timeline". Nat
  23. Hi What format is the video you are trying to add? It may not be immediately compatible with VP and need to be converted to another format. With regards editing transitions between your clips........ The transition duration appears as a yellow bar between the clips at the top of the sequence line. The type of transition is selected by clicking the square on the right hand end of the sequence line clip, and the sequence required and its duration is selected from the menu of effects that is displayed. In "Storyboard" mode you click on the box that appears between the clip thumbnails. The default duration of the effect can be set under the "Options" tab in the tool bar. By default the effect is divided in time equally between the two clips but if you switch to Timeline mode you can drag the ends of the yellow transition bar to refine the instant that the effect starts and finishes. These are the only transition controls I think there are. Hope this helps Nat
  24. Hi "The function of allowing you to place the clip at start/end/cursor position seems have gone from the version of VP that I am using (2.41.....sure it USED to be there.. )" Oops! Forgot that I set the default to add clips/blanks to end of the time line in my last project ..... No wonder the choices had disappeared! Nat
  25. Hi The function of allowing you to place the clip at start/end/cursor position seems have gone from the version of VP that I am using (2.41.....sure it USED to be there.. ) However, your problem of correctly positioning a clip between two others is fairly straightforward. Just drag the clip from the media list down to the sequence line and then along the sequence line to where you want to add it between existing clips. As you move it along you will see a pink arrow appear as the name of your clip crosses the joins. Drop the new clip when this arrow appears at the join in question and it will insert automatically. If you add the clip to the cursor position VP will split the sequence and insert your clip, which can be annoying if you meant to place the cursor beween clips as if you don't get it right it leaves a few frames where the split was made. Positioning the cursor (if that is your method of choice, is probably best done by zooming in on the sequence at the join and then stepping through a frame at a time using the < > tabs on either side of the "Play" button in the right hand preview pane. When the image changes from one clip to the other add your new bit to the cursor position. Normally this works OK but depending on the zoom may still leave a frame cut off. If you feel this odd frame can be deleted without spoiling your movie, switch to storyboard mode and you will see your unwanted frame. (It will have a small duration value). Right click it and select to delete. Alternatively you can add your clip to the start or end of your sequence and in storyboard mode... (the sequence is visually shorter in this mode) simply drag your addition along (it will appear as a transparent image) to the joint position and then drop it. It will insert between the two clips. If it goes into the wrong slot, simply drag it along a bit further. In all of these methods the clips should play along the sequence without any extraneous bits. Nat
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