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Thanks Nat, I followed your instructions and they worked. I was a bit disappointed with the final result, however. The stabilised video, when played on my TV, shimmered too much to make it watchable. Perhaps the original video was just a little bit too shaky.

Hi

You probably need to change one of the "Options" settings. (See below)

 

The first step is to load all your clips to the media list window using the "Add Media" button on the tool bar. (I am sure you will have done this ) Your clips will then list up in the window on the left. If they dont then click the tab marked "Media List"

The next step is to get the clips from the list onto the the sequence line. You can do this in two ways but first of all set the program options as follows.:-

 

Left click the "Options" tab on the toolbar followed by the "Other" tab. In the box prefixed by "Add new clip to the following position" select "Ask me" from the drop down menu. Now click OK. This will ensure that if you add clips directly from the media list you will be prompted as to where you want them to go. I am thinking from your post that this has been set to "Beginning of timeline"

 

Now, to get the clips onto the sequence...The simplest way is just to drag the clip in question from the media list and drop it directly onto the sequence track. You can drop the clip into any position relative to the clips already there. If you drag your new clip left or right along the track a pink arrow appears over the junction between existing clips and that is where your new clip will go when you drop it.

The second method is to right click the clip on the media list and from the menu that appears select to "Add item(s) to the sequence". If the clip is the first clip to be added it will appear immediately. If otherwise you will now be prompted as to where you want the new clip to be placed. (As you have set the options to "Ask me".) If you happen to select "Sliders position" your sequence will be split for the new clip to be inserted. You would normally select "End of timeline" in order to build up your film in the correct playing order. (Left to right)

 

Note that if you have a clip on the sequence in the wrong place (Say, you missed one on the list and it's been added at the end of the timeline,) you can simply select it and drag it along right or left to the correct place where a pink arrow appears and then release it.

 

 

Hope this helps

 

 

Nat

Having overcome the problem of audio/visual synchronisation I now have a second question. Having added all the clips in correct order I stabilise them one by one and move them down to the clips area below. The problem is that, as I move them down, the clip I last moved is placed ahead of the previous clips (i.e. if I have five clips to process, the fifth clip will be at the front of the video and the first clip at the end. How can I overcome this?

Success! I converted the clips from MP4 to MP2 and video and audio are now synchronised.

Hi,

 

My prospects of producing a high definition DVD don't seem promising. I will try and work out how to convert the clips to MPEG2 and see how that goes. I have posed the problem to the NCH help desk but their suggestion wasn't helpful. I have followed up my original post with a second one and am awaiting a reply. I tried to install trial versions of a similar Cyberlink program but at the end of the installation I was told that the downloaded files were corrupt. I will continue searching for an inexpensive video editing program which works.

 

Regards,

 

Michael

Hi,

My prospects of producing a high definition DVD don't seem promising. I will try and work out how to convert the clips to MPEG2 and see how that goes. I have posed the problem to the NCH help desk but their suggestion wasn't helpful. I have followed up my original post with a second one and am awaiting a reply. I tried to install trial versions of a similar Cyberlink program but at the end of the installation I was told that the downloaded files were corrupt. I will continue searching for an inexpensive video editing program which works.

Regards,

Michael

Hi

 

The out of synch sound (video lagging) seems to be a common problem judging by a search on Google. Some while back NCH answered a question regarding this (a rare event indeed!) saying that it was performance related. All I can say is that if I film in big format (1920 x 1080 HD MPEG4 H.246 that I have this problem on my PC. Even 1280 x 720 MPEG4 show marked lag in the image.(The smaller frame sizes (not HD) run OK.)

 

I have tried lots of formats with different length clips just to time the lag to see if its proportinal or relates to frame size etc., a 15 second clip of 1920 x 1080 60fps MPEG4 can be out by an average of 7 seconds which makes editing such clips difficult to say the least. Even a 10 second 1280 x 720 MPEG4 clip lags behind the sound by 4 seconds! So perhaps NCH are correct. Perhaps it requires a 64 bit machine. It's not just VP that has this problem as I have several editing programs and all show a similar fault. Even the clips played in Quicktime lag, Irfanview lags etc.

 

No doubt someone out there will say this is all wrong...........

 

But by using 1280 x 720 HD and converting the clips to MPEG2 before I edit everything works fine. In fact the image seems clearer and the sound less muddy.

 

All you can do is give it a try.

 

Nat

Nat,

Thanks for your advice. I have just played back a clip on my camcorder and compared it to the same clip on Videopad. I am embarrassed to say that I have discovered that the audio on Videopad is NOT in synch with the video after all! The audio on Videopad starts earlier than the video and, consequently, also finishes earlier. I could not tell this before because it seemed that my wife started talking while she had her back to me (which she didn't). Does this give you any clues?

Regards,

Michael

Hi

 

If the sound is in synch up the point where it stops I can't think what it might be. When it's added to the sequence line can you see the missing sound on the audio track? If you can it should be rendered when you create your film.

 

 

The black frames thing has been mentioned before. Again, I have no idea about them. All I can say is I never get them but, of course when a clip is previewed, it always ends with a black frame. It's not part of the clip however as it's not present when another clip is added on.

 

I am wondering if it's related to the format your camera is producing?

 

With regards converting MPEG4 to MPEG2. It's what I do as a routine (or until I can affort a whizz PC). There a quite a few free conversion programs available. I use "Any video converter" from:

 

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

 

(NCH do one of course but I had this one first which does what I want.)

It's pretty easy to use and you can add multiple files and convert between different video formats using variable parameters. (frame size/fps/ etc.) The resulting file outputs to a named folder (usually on the desktop) and the original remains unchanged so you can try something different.

 

Sorry, all in all not much help. Try MPEG2 and see if there is any difference.

 

Nat

Thanks for your reply Nat. The sound was in synch up to the point that it stopped. I noticed also that there were several blank (black frames) at the end of each clip though the preview showed the whole clip. How do I convert MPEG4 to MPEG2? Does this require video converter software? I saw this solution mentioned elsewhere in the forum as the answer to out-of-sync video/audio.

This may well have an obvious answer. I'm new (see previous post) and have not been able to work out how to move clips. Dragging doesn't seem to be the way to do it. I find that each clip I move from Files to Clip is placed in front of the earlier clip.

I have just downloaded Videopad and captured a number of clips from my high definition camcorder. While previewing the second and third clips I found that while the video continued to the end, the audio stopped prematurely leaving silence instead of my wife talking.

Am I right in believing that I cannot create a main menu and submenus in Videopad?

I have just imported video from my camcorder and gone through the basic process for producing a movie for burning to a DVD. When I play the DVD on my TV I get a menu which gives me the choice of selecting Movies, Pictures or Audio. selecting any of these produces no result. I admit that I have done this in a hurry, but I can't see where I've missed a step. Where have I gone wrong?

Thanks Nat. My video is in .AVI format.

I have just stabilised five clips, the longest of which was two minutes. Apart from the fact that this took an awfully long time, the result was unexpected. The top half of the stabilised clip was the actual video, whilst the bottom half was wavy coloured lines. obviously this wasn't worth burning. I am new to Videpad; is there an explanation for this result?