borate

I did not place any transitions in because I wanted the final version to run seamlessly. When I previewed it, it did just that, made one seamless video. However, after I saved it into .avi and played that back on my computer, every time there was a "transition" the screen flashed black.

Not seeing this, using 3.10. Back-to-back uncut clips (no transitions) - whether video, still images or intermixed - flow seemlessly in both sequence preview and finished AVI file. Do hear audio pops at the cut points occasionally.

Reading all these fault posts on versions 3.xx gives one the feeling that perhaps these versions were a quick response to user complaints (particularly the 'I won't buy it this way' type), and perhaps they should have gone through longer beta testing before their release.

Performance (or lack of it) gives the impression that, since 3.0, they have ALL been BETAs. But 3.10 isn't labeled as such, and may well be the best in that series to date.

That said, some failings may be exacerbated by deficiencies or characteristics of the user's system.

I had 4 clips that I edited/took a segment from and placed them on the sequence bar. I did not place any transitions in because I wanted the final version to run seamlessly. When I previewed it, it did just that. However, after I saved it into .avi and played that back on my computer, every time there was a "transition" the screen flashed black.

There's no transition between clips and no gaps? Odd. Visit the video card chip manufacturer's WEB site and see if there's an updated driver available...

http://geforce.com/drivers

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect/graphics

Download and install. If problems arise, roll back to the prior driver via Control Panel|DEVICE MANAGER|DRIVERS tab.

The result worked fine, but,it took forever for these short clips and effect renders to complete!! Indeed it was quite a few minutes for them to even start and the green render line would often stop for a while.

Video editing is resource intensive. You might compare your PC to this. If it's not up to snuff you can expect sluggish/crashy performance.

The system requirements listed below are recommended by the creator of another loosely comparable editing tool as minimums for general digital video production work.

Screen Resolution:

1024 X 768, 16-bit color or above.

OS:

Windows 7/Vista/XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture).

Memory:

512 MB required.

3 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 32 bit OS.

6 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 64 bit OS.

CPU:

AVI Capture/Producer profiles: Pentium II 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz.

DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+.

High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.

Full-HD quality H.264 and MPEG2 profiles: Intel Corei5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4.

AVCHD and BD burning profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400, or AMD Phenom II X2.

Video Capturing Device:

PCI or USB1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver).

DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE1394.

DVD camcorder connected via USB2.0.

Sony MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder.

JVC Everio camcorder.

Panasonic MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder.

Hard Disk Space:

5 GB required.

10 GB (20 GB recommended) required for DVD production.

60 GB (100 GB recommended) required for BD/HD/AVCHD production.

Burning Device:

A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD* titles.

A Blu-ray Disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Disc titles*.

Why does my avi video file import as an audio? This is preventing me from using this avi file in the project.

Perhaps the AVI wrapper contains a file type that VP cannot use. Perhaps a codec is missing?

You might try converting the file to another format, using NCH Prism (free), then attempt another import.

http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/index.html

When I upgraded from V 3.10, I started using Video Pad 3.12 (licenced user) on a Win7 (64bit) comp, intel i7 quad core, 8GB RAM, great graphics, really strong computer, but the software keeps crashing.

Check the WEB site of the manufacturer of your video adapter for an updated driver...

http://geforce.com/drivers (NVidia)

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/auto_detect.aspx (AMD)

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx (Intel)

If problems arise, ROLL BACK to the prior driver via Control Panel|DEVICE MANAGER|DRIVERS tab.

The documentation talks of "in" and "out" points but they seem to have no purpose. I set them on the clips and according the documentation I can find that should allow me to press the green arrow and use that as a clip, however the green arrow does nothing.

Assuming that you are using version 3.x, check this out, if you haven't already done so...

Also, in the program, click the ? in the upper right corner.

The CLIP preview window - at the left - displays the clip that is selected in the media area (top left). Note that there are tabs (bins) for SEQUENCES|VIDEO|AUDIO|IMAGES.

The SEQUENCE window - at the right - displays all the clips in the sequence. Move the scrubber (the blue arrow that points to the red line) to the right to scroll them manually. Or press the PLAY (right-facing) arrow, or the keyboard spacebar.

Begin by clicking the ADD FILE button. Browse for a clip, and double-click on it. It will show up in the media window, under the appropriate tab (video, audio, etc.)

Move the scrubber to the right, where you want your IN point. Click the RED flag, located just under the row of thumbnails.

Move the scrubber to the right some more, to the OUT point. Click the BLUE flag, Note that video not selected dims - leaving only the portion that you marked.

NOW click the green arrow, and that video will appear on the timeline.

You can also drag a clip onto the sequence. Only the portion of the scene that you selected will appear, if you marked an IN and OUT. If you did not, the entire clip will be dropped onto the sequence.

If I go into sequence mode and make cuts around the area I want to clip out I can't figure out how to remove it from the video that I have.

Always try a right-click first, to see what options are available. Right-click on a clip in the sequence and DELETE SELECTED CLIP. Then, if necessary, right-click|CLOSE GAP.

Read the (admittedly sparse) documentation and experiment. If you get stumped, ask specifics here.

My movie is too long. Is there a way to quickly shorten all the still images from 3.0 to 2.5 seconds, without having to click each file?

I haven't discovered one.

When exporting small projects of various different sizes, both 3.11 and 3.12 FROZE at 99% complete with 8 seconds left.

Confirmed here. Back the the drawing board, Connor.^ (Just to be clear, "borate" is not employed by NCH.)

I created 5 video pad projects, and now want to merge them into one movie. Is there a way to do this within the videopad editor software?

I don't spot a way to merge projects. Perhaps someone else does. However, project CLIPS can be loaded via "CLIP|IMPORT CLIPS FROM ANOTHER PROJECT."

See the related prior thread "how to merge sequences into a movie file."

Nat,

No doubt future VP versions will better leverage GPU capabilities to enhance performance. That 3.x is more full featured than the 2.x series may account for some speed differences.

NCH doesn't list system specifics, beyond basic O/S requirements. (At least I haven't found them.) They should. Documentation, overall, is weak.

Here are the minimum specs for another somewhat more sophisticated editor. That said, these requirements seem reasonable in general for the file types listed...

Operating System

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Professional (32 bit with Service Pack 3)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate (32 bit and 64 bit)

Microsoft Windows 8 (32 bit and 64 bit)

Screen Resolution

1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above.

CPU Processor

AVI Capture/Produce: Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.

DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.

High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.

Full-HD quality H.264 and MPEG2 Profiles: Intel Corei5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4.

AVCHD* and BD* burning Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400, or AMD Phenom II X2.

2K/4K/3D* video editing profile: Intel Corei7 or AMD Phenom II X4 with 64 bit OS 6 GB RAM.

Graphics Card

128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (1 GB or higher VRAM and OpenCL capable are recommended).

Memory

512 MB required.

3 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 32 bit OS.

6 GB DDR2 or above recommended for 64 bit OS.

Hard Disk Space

10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production.

60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD production*.

Video editing is resource intensive, so results will vary with O/S (32/64) hardware and RAM. 3:10 produced the following results, using a reasonably capable system - Win 7 (64), Asus 2600K CPU, 8G RAM, NVidia 650 video card.

1. Cleared cache

2. Loaded 3 clips - an AVI (:12), WMV (:15) and MOV (:44) into sequence 1. Thumbnails propagated in less than 10 seconds.

3. + to the right of SEQ 1 and loaded same clips into sequence 2. Thumbs displayed instantaneously.

4. + to the right of SEQ 2 and loaded same clips into sequence 3. Thumbs instantaneous.

5. + to the right of SEQ 3 and loaded SEQ'S 1, 2, 3. Thumbs propagated in 15 seconds

6. Produced HD 720 to an AVI file. Creation time: 4:55. Movie length: about 3:30.

No checkerboard thumbs windows observed, but on one of three tests there was a gap during one clip

Am I correct in assuming that version 3.04 simply doesn't allow reediting clips once on the sequence?

Cannot recall that being the case with 3.04. As noted earlier in the thread, it definitely isn't what I see in 3.10. Consider installing it.

When addting to a timeline clip there must be sufficient video on the original, of course, or VP cannot lengthen it.

"Here, if audio track 1 is empty, a sound clip that is right-clicked|placed at cursor, left-clicked|dragged to that track or added by means of the green arrow does not split the video sequence. No gap."

 

I tried that just now using two silent clips. Adding the sound bite by by selecting it and using the prompt to place it at the cursor position splits the video track and the sound clip is added to soundtrack 1 under the gap. Dragging from here down to soundtrack 2 still leaves the split as well as the gap....

Something's not kosher here, Nat. I loaded two moving clips, unlinked their audio tracks and deleted them. Then I opened a music file, trimmed it and dropped it on the audio 1 timeline. No gap.

If I left the original audio untouched and dragged the music to audio track 2 - same deal. No gap. Audio 1 and 2 were mixed and audio 1 remained in sync. Verison 3.10.

http://hevanet.com/hb/snippet.wmv

"If there is an existing audio track (even if UNlinked), then a gap will appear. To avoid that drop the new independent sound to audio track 2."

 

I generally drag and drop but in this test I added the "independent" sound clip by selecting it from the media list and then choosing to add it to the sequence at cursor position by selecting that choice from the menu. This places it on soundtrack 1 (presumably because this was empty - the clips being silent) and split the sequence, when I would have thought a lower track without splitting the sequence should have been used.

Here, if audio track 1 is empty, a sound clip that is right-clicked|placed at cursor, left-clicked|dragged to that track or added by means of the green arrow does not split the video sequence. No gap.

"I don't spot a setting for default transition type. "

 

No' date=' there isn't one. (unlike 2.41) So what if you want to crossfade between each of a 400 images??? (Phew!! )[/quote']

 

Select all the scenes that you want to transition. Click the TRANSITION button and choose the transition type. A prompt appears: "apply to all" or "apply to one."

I load two silent clips one after the other onto the sequence line. (A and as shown in the above post.

Now.....I have a visual prompt in the middle of clip B where I want to drop in some sound, and so I move the cursor to this precise point and then add a short sound clip to the cursor position.

 

I was expecting this "independent" sound clip to appear at the cursor position on the soundtrack and synch with the visuals, as it does in 2.41 (although in that version it remains unlinked.)

 

What I find is that the sound clip IS placed at the cursor line on the soundtrack, but I find that the main sequence line has been split and the portion to the right of this has been moved up by the length of the sound clip so creating a gap in the visuals. The added sound clip actually plays in the gap.

Doesn't do that here - when sound is dropped below two silent clips (no audio track) the video track is unaffected.

If there is an existing audio track (even if UNlinked), then a gap will appear. To avoid that drop the new independent sound to audio track 2.

.... and how do you set the "Default" transition?

Transition duration? TOOLS|OPTIONS|GENERAL|CLIPS

I don't spot a setting for default transition type.

Hi,

 

"Then if you resize clip A to the right to make it longer then clip B will be moved along in the sequence to make space for it."

 

Dosen't this unsynch all the independent sound clips associated with the B section.??

If by "independent" you mean unlinked, then it doesn't seem to...

In a quick test, when I both shortened and lengthened clip A (linked), clip B (which was unlinked) stayed in sync.

If both were unlinked, then it was necessary to lengthen audio and video separately, select both prior to making the change, or manually close the gap on one of the tracks.

Thanks for responding borate.

Actually there are about 3000 individual images that I need to put together to make a time lapse video.

If you transfer the images to the PC, then VP should be able to load them - although 3000 may be too much for it??? This may even be possible directly from the camera or card.

In VP click the ADD FILE button (top-left), locate the directory (folder) that contains the image files, click inside its window and then select them all with <ctrl-A>.

They should populate the media area (to the left of the preview/clips window).

Select all the clips and hold down the left mouse button as you drag them to the timeline.

I've looked through everything, all of the support pages, and none lists how to add special effects to subtitles (such as text flying in).

Use TEXT instead. Upper-left ADD TEXT button. Type the text, then click on ADD.

Click the large "T" - to position, scroll, change font, size, etc.

Downloaded Videopad and have been playing around with it for a couple days. I was wondering if someone can assist me in the steps for combining multiple images into a time lapse video. Or, perhaps direct me as to where I can find the information.

If this is a continuous clip that you want to time-lapse, one approach would be to drop it onto the timeline and split it multiple times at equal intervals - choosing an appropriate segment length to achieve the desired lapse.

Then hold down <cntrl> and left-click every other clip. Finally, right-click and choose "delete."

I have spent several hours now trying to remove 16 secs from a 2hour mp4 clip. Is there anyone who could explain step by step how to do this or tell me where to go to learn.

Move the red scrubber line to the IN point. Click the SPLIT button.

Move the scrubber to the OUT point. Click SPLIT.

Hold down <control> key and left click the clip in the video and then the audio timelines - to select both.

Right-click on the segment to be removed. Click "delete selected clip."

No, because I need to preserve my previous editing on the WMA file...

Converting it should have no effect on its content - just its file type.

The file itself IS ok. It worked fine few weeks ago, when I did all the editing on it inside my project.

But when I loaded my project today, it gave me this error ("failed to load file..."). still, It was opened today by windows media player with no problem.

Tried to re-open it after project is loaded - failed.

Tried to re-convert it with AVC, but still get the same

Strange. Did you try coverting it to a WAV file, then importing to VP?

Hi

 

No..It seems OK.

On this occasion it's back to requesting log-in, which shouldn't be the case. Indecision?

So..if you want to reply again I will check if it does highlight the post as it used to.... (after logging in.

No, Nat. Highlight of unread is no longer working.

LATER THE SAME DAY.

Yes, now it is - after logging in.