ConnorBrendish

Nationalsolo, you should be able to do a 2.41-like zoom with version 3.00+'s "crop" effect using animation. Expand the animation section of the effects dialog, set keyframes at the start and end of the clip and give each keyframe a different crop rectangle.

OP updated.

Hi all,

VideoPad version 3.04 has been released.

Some changes include:

• You can now apply transitions to multiple clips at the same time. To do this, select two or more track clips and choose a transition from the "Transitions" toolbar button.
  
• Dramatically decreased memory usage, especially when using large sequences with a lot of videos.
  
• Transitions no longer freeze on the frame between the two clips, provided that the left clip has 'out' point set and the right clip has 'in' point set.
  
• Clip thumbnail preview images are now generated at the same time as the video cache, speeding up the process.
  
• Video cache process now makes better use of multicore processors.
  
• Text clips and subtitles are no longer limited to 260 characters. There is no limit now.
  
• Clip bin thumbnail preview images now have an aspect ratio of 16:9 instead of 1:1, giving you more screen space to work with.
  
• You can now see what you will undo/redo (see the edit menu and status bar).
  
• When you undo or redo an action, VideoPad will no longer regenerate all of the thumbnail preview images in the current sequence.
  
• Can now load .flc, .wtv, .ogg(video), .mtv, .ts4, .div, .mjpeg, .nsv files.
  
• Mask-based transitions are now ~15% faster. (wipe, reveal, split, fan, radial, circle, diamond, heat, rectangle, star, checkerboard, dissolve, squares)
  
• Added 'Suite' tab to the toolbar which gives you quick access to some other related applications from NCH Software.
  

As always, VideoPad can be downloaded from http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

I've also made some improvements to the caching algorithm when caching images, blank and text clips.

I did a little test: 19 image clips (1024x768) on the sequence, each 5 seconds long. 18 transitions between the clips, each random.

Before:

Time to load project from scratch....... 37 seconds

Total cache file size............................ 71.2MB

After:

Time to load project from scratch....... 8 seconds

Total cache file size............................ 21MB

Also, I've fixed the problem with cache files being regenerated when they don't need to be.

These improvements will be included in the next release.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hey George,

VideoPad 3.00+ stores its cache files in "C:\Users\<yourUserName>\AppData\Local\Temp\VideoPadCache". For example, mine is in "C:\Users\Connor\AppData\Local\Temp\VideoPadCache". You can delete this folder safely while VideoPad isn't running.

Alternatively, you can close VideoPad, re-open it, open the "Options" dialog and click "Clear Unused Cache Files" on the "General" tab, which does pretty much the same thing as above.

Also, this problem may be related to the one outline here: http://nch.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/19803-loading-times-241-versus-304-and-cache-file-contents/

How exactly were you using the program? Making a lot of cuts in the clip? Did you reload the project many times? Thanks.

Hihi,

The cache directory growing problem sounds like a bug to me. I'll look into it today or tomorrow, thanks.

The reason that each video cache file is larger in v3.00+ is because we started caching the alpha channel of the images as well, so that accounts for at least 33% of the size increase per file.

I'm currently working on the time taken to generate cache files and it should become significantly faster in the future.

Connor

Hi,

Please see my video which shows how to make the transitions work as intended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpsdJcAJwT0&feature=youtu.be

If all goes well then the next version (for Windows) should be released in the next day or two but don't count on it as things always come up.

Hi Nationalsolo,

The Zoom Effect in 2.41 allowed you to set a beginning and ending zoom position. 3.00 and later has video effect animation, so that you can set an arbitrary amount of key frames. You shouldn't need to use the Motion Effect for this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOI_Skw6cqg

I've fixed the recent Crop Effect bug and it should be fine in the next version.

Please remember that version 3.04 was a beta version, so the idea is that we get feedback from customers before releasing it officially - you shouldn't expect it to work 100%.

Hi,

Thanks for telling us about the Crop Effect bug. I've just fixed this and it should be OK in the next release.

Video transitions in v3.04 should work the same as they did in v2.41. That is, if the left clip of your transition has its 'out point' set and the right clip has its 'in point' set then the video shouldn't freeze during the transition period. This will depend on what 'in' and 'out' values you choose. If the clips don't have 'in' or 'out' points set and you transition between them then the frames will freeze at the middle of the transition.

VideoPad 3.04 introduces multi-threaded video decoders for some video codecs (H264 is one). If you have a multi-core CPU and your videos use one of these codecs then you should see a speed increase.

Hi,

I can confirm that the bad transitions bug and "Building Preview" problem will be fixed soon (probably the next Win-EN release). You can also look forward to reduced memory usage and faster rendering of video.

I am aware of the problems with transitions. I think for the most part they're OK but I do have plans to make them work better and I'll take into consideration any suggestions you have.

Hi,

VideoPad 3.02 was released for the Windows platform early this morning, Canberra time.

You can download it here.

Bug fixes include (but are not limited to):

• Sound track volume values weren't being saved with project files properly.
  
• Sound track mute wasn't being saved with the project properly.
  
• Cached video frames sometimes looked discoloured.
  
• Cached video frames sometimes looked transparent.
  
• Several crash bugs.
  

New features include (but are not limited to):

• Clicking in an empty part of a track will now change the timeline cursor position.
  
• Clicking and holding the middle mouse button in the sequence will now allow you to scroll both vertically and horizontally. You can only do this if you are zoomed in on the sequence or have many tracks.
  
• Cutting/copying/pasting of track clips has been improved greatly.
  
• Double-clicking a track will now expand or collapse it.
  
• You can now click and hold the Previous frame and Next frame buttons in the clip and sequence previews to scrub forwards or backwards.
  
• New "Screen Snapshot" feature allows you to take a screenshot of one or all of your monitors and automatically import the image into VideoPad. You can find this feature by clicking Record->Capture Screenshot on the home tab.
  
• The subtitles dialog now has a toolbar for easy access of key functions.
  
• The subtitles dialog now allows you to select multiple subtitle clips and change their properties all at once.
  

We have a lot more planned for VideoPad so stay tuned for future releases!

Thanks fvisagie, I'll have a look at it today when I have time.

1. Add the video to your sequence
   
2. Select the clip and click the 'Effects' tab, or click the star icon on the bottom-left corner of the clip
   
3. Select the 'Rotate' effect
   
4. Rotate to the desired angle
   

Hi fvisagie,

Not letterboxing when exporting from 720x576 DV input to 720x576 DV

I'm curious about what exactly you mean here. In my testing, VideoPad respects the selected output resolution and if your input video resolutions match the aspect ratio then no letterboxing should occur.

Not re-encoding unmodified input frames when exporting to the same format.

Not deinterlacing otherwise unmodified frames when exporting to the same format.

Not converting colourspace, especially not when exporting previously unmodified frames.

VideoPad will most-likely support this in the future but I couldn't say when exactly.

Navigating the timeline in integer frame increments, i.e. landing mouse clicks and forward/backward button presses on frame boundaries instead of on decimal values inside frames as is the case often

Noted. I'll see if we can maybe add some setting in the options dialog so that you can choose between seeing the timeline in millisecond or framecount view, but I can't promise anything.

Not losing 1 frame when encoding (to DV and Lagarith at least)

I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you please clarify?

No keyboard shortcuts for Clip Go to and Set In/Out (these become more important due to non-integer frame navigation).

Preferably make most things shortcutable with configurable shortcuts.

I'll write this down so I don't forget it, it seems like a cool feature and I'd also like to see it implemented.

Also, as the responsible developer for VideoPad I'm very interested in seeing your full list of recommendations from your evaluation!

Thanks

I would like to see more options for altering text...whether in blank/title screens or in overlay. Text coloring and selection/animation would be great. I have ArcSoft Show biz...from my webcam...crappy editor BUT it has really great things you can do with text.

Click on the [T] button on the text clip preview window to change the text settings.

In this dialog, you can also set the 'scrolling' property, which will make the text animate from left->right, right->left, top->bottom or bottom->top. If you require more flexible animation then you can open the Effects Dialog and use the effect animation features to fine-tune the animation.

Hi mbcgwen,

You probably won't see any change in performance if you upgrade from the Intel HD2000.

Hi rvermar,

The feature is still there in version 3.00, it's just found in a different place. You can do it by using the Effect Animation features, which make the effects much more powerful compared to version 2.41. I've made a short video tutorial for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEIaqZ1PJkM&feature=youtu.be

Connor

At first trial, v3 seems to be a much more powerful product.

 

One important suggestion: if you add subtitles to a video, you want to have

some consistency of style. Therefore, it would be useful if either

- the default "text attributes" could be changed, or

- changes to the text attributes would be automatically repeated the next time

you apply them (as was the case in v2).

It is rather annoying to have to repeat adapting these attributes for each

individual subtitle or text clip.

Thanks for the feedback. This has been fixed and will be included in the next build.