picbuck

The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that what you propose is built into (or not) your computer, your graphics card, and VideoPad itself. You'd need a doctorate in computer science to do what you propose, or at least a master's in engineering. More realistically, videos are best handled with a 3-gig-plus CPU (central processing unit), preferably dual-core or better, and lots of memory. This does NOT mean you need these, only that it's nice. With images, memory is more important than CPU speed. If you don't know, 32-bit versions of Windows, which you probably have, recognize only up to 3.25gig memory. It's usual to buy a matched 4gig memory set(two 2gig sticks), and just understand that .75gig won't be used. Or just a single 4gig stick, whichever has a better price. If you have a 64-bit version of Windows, then you can use something like 8gig memory, depending on your Windows version. For processing videos, this would be a very good investment. Don't forget about Linux, which offers 64-bit versions and is free. Linux Mint is not too unlike Windows, so the learning curve is not that bad. Contrary to the impression you might have, you don't have to be at all geeky to use Linux, and good video editors are available. I don't know whether VideoPad offers a Linux version. -al-

I think the solution in a case like this might be the classic solution for all computer problems: uninstall and reinstall.

Since it's at the end of the video, the workaround would be to "Insert Blank," which is offered in the toolbar. Click the down arrow beside Insert Blank, and you can select the color you want. The duration of the blank is adjustable. So insert a blank and cross-fade to it, which will give the effect of a fadeout.

Audio delay or lag is not cause by VideoPad itself. Rather, it's caused by the internal workings of the computer, which can be adjusted. Do not--repeat not--worry, your computer is fine. But it's a machine, and machines may need to be adjusted for specific tasks. In this case the adjustment is "Hardware Acceleration," which relates to your graphics card, also called a video card, also referred to as display. You might have graphics/video/display built into your motherboard, but it's still a "card" in effect, so the same adjustment applies. The solution in my case was to turn down Hardware Acceleration one notch. Your mileage may vary, different machines might need different amounts of adjustment. Sadly, the adjustment for Hardware Acceleration is buried a bit deep, and it varies with different versions of Windows (though they're all the same adjustment), so I can't really get you there in this post. Instead, search on YouTube for "hardware acceleration" and you'll find numerous posts showing how to get there. Start with one notch down and test. Hint: When testing, voice is very hard to get synchronized, mouse clicks are better. Remember that things happen when you release the mouse button, not when the button is pushed down.

Wait a minute. I was just loading a video myself and had another thought, still along the "you might not really have a problem" line. If you're talking about the traveling blue bar, I think it sometimes get stuck...or whatever exactly happens. But as far as I can tell, when all the thumbnails appear on the timeline, then the clip is loaded. So I just ahead and do what I have in mind to do. This seems to jog the blue bar and things proceed as planned..though I'm pretty much just giving you guesswork here.

Wait...what...you're using photographs that are in another location, on some other web site? Just taking a shot here, but all your clips, and all your photographs--everything--should be in the same folder on your own web site. There's more: Never mind the 16:9 ratio, the photographs and the clips must be the same size, right down to the pixel. If not, then JW Player would have to do an on-the-fly conversion (if there is such a thing), and this would sure enough slow things down. A lot. Sorry if I've misunderstood your problem, and if I have, then I have no further ideas. But this is the way I understand your situation.

I don't know your exact situation, but I don't think you should be trying to upload a file located in a temporary folder. It sounds like you're trying to upload VideoPad's working copy of your vid. This is unreadable to any app/program except VideoPad (all apps/programs work this way). The thing to do is save your movie with, not surprisingly, the "Save Movie" button at the top of the VideoPad screen. If you don't have another location, save it to the Desktop, and as an .avi file. Then this is the finished vid, the one you upload.

Three things you might not have heard about: Make your VideoPad output size 1280 by 720. YouTube likes this size. Have a sound track. If there's no sound track, then YouTube probably won't give you HD. Hmmm, I don't know whether a silent sound track will fool YouTube. Make your VideoPad output 30fps (frames per second). This is what YouTube uses (it's said), so it eliminates a conversion step, and that's always good for quality. Your camcorder probably records at 29.92fps, but VideoPad can make the conversion noprob. Just guessing, obviously, but these help for me.

This is why the Hollywood post-processing guys get the bucks.

Of course I'm just guessing, but you don't necessarily have a problem. When I'm loading file sizes in the gigabyte range, then they just take a long time to load. As in time to go get a coffee refill, and still not done. This is on my machine with a 3.2gig, tri-core processor, and 3.25gig memory (the most 32-bit Windows can use). I'm not on the VideoPad staff, but it's obvious that VideoPad does a lot of pre-processing when you load a video. It has to do this so you'll get immediate results when you move the time slider, or otherwise edit. A quick Google shows that Fraps is not famous for outputting small file sizes. You might look around YouTube for how to make your Fraps files smaller.

--- What video format should i first convert these videos all too to ensure that videopad is going to be able to edit them optimally? --- Addendum. It looks like I'm old-school in the field of converting formats. Here's cnet's list of video converters. Can 15 million people be wrong? (yes of course they can, but that's another story) http://download.cnet.com/windows/video-converters/?tag=mncol%3Bsort&rpp=30&sort=editorsRating+asc - al -

--- What video format should i first convert these videos all too to ensure that videopad is going to be able to edit them optimally --- In my experience, .avi is the universal video format, as .wav is the universal audio format. But there are other things to worry about, mostly frame rate and the size (as viewed) of your different videos. Mixing different frame rates, or different viewing sizes, is unlikely to be successful. If you must convert frame rates or size, probably your best bet is VirtualDub (Google for it). It's been around for years and is something of a de facto standard in video editing. VirtualDub does not have effects, but otherwise it can open, edit, and convert almost anything--almost. There's a learning curve to VirtualDub, but YouTube has a lot of help videos--some garbage, some not, as usual. Hope this might be of some help. -al-

Good question, and the short answer is no, no automatic updates. The longer answer is so vague it's not worth giving. It's the kind of thing one should examine for oneself. At the main page (nch.com.au), scroll to the search box at the bottom. Search for "update" (sans quotes). The implication I get is that no updates are included in the sales price, but there is a discount on updates for license holders. Or maybe I have it wrong.

Just guessing wildly, buy you might try this: Uninstall VideoPad. Restart (restarting is important). Click though My Computer ~> C: ~> Program Files. In the Program Files folder, delete the folder named NCH Software. This folder contains VideoPad. NOTE: It also contains any other NCH programs you have, so if you have more than one don't do any of this. Deleting the program folder (NCH Software) will hopefully remove the records VideoPad leaves behind after an uninstall (most programs leave traces behind, it doesn't hurt or change anything). Restart (important) and again install VideoPad. This might or might not help because program settings are saved in various places on a computer, but it might be worth a try. If you don't have the NCH Software folder inside the Program Files folder, well, this idea was no good in the first place. But might help.

Whoops, I mixed apples and oranges. I see I gave the impression that VideoPad does have a "Save Selection" command. Sorry I got your hopes up, but this is not so. My whole idea was to turn out an all-inclusive video with VideoPad, then extract the sections, or clips, you want with VirtualDub. Neither VideoPad nor VirtualDub has a "Save Selection" command per se. However, VirtualDub does have a Save Selection function, although it has no specific name. In VirtualDub, with a video loaded, a section/clip of the video can be selected in the timeline at the bottom. The selection is indicated by a blue line. If you then click File ~> Save as AVI, VirtualDub saves only the section/clip indicated by the blue line. This is what I'm speaking of as a Save Selection command, in fact although not in name. (If nothing is selected, then of course File ~> Save as AVI saves the entire video.) With a section/clip selected, and VirtualDub set to "Direct Stream Copy" in both Video and Audio, the process is very fast. Obviously there are variables, but I just Direct-Stream-Copied a 1-gig clip in some 48 seconds. With the small file sizes that VideoPad turns out (I wonder how it does that?) the process should fly. Of course this whole idea might or might not serve your particular purpose. Just tossing it out as a thought.