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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

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.

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

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.

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. Transition duration? TOOLS|OPTIONS|GENERAL|CLIPS I don't spot a setting for default transition type.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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."

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

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

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

No, Nat. Highlight of unread is no longer working. LATER THE SAME DAY. Yes, now it is - after logging in.

Agreed. The forum should be accessible without sign-in, as it was earlier and is now, but unread posts should be in boldface.

Try another file type, perhaps MPEG4 or WMV.. Here are those that YouTube supports... .MOV .MPEG4 .AVI .WMV .MPEGPS .FLV 3GPP WebM

Use the standard Windows convention: select the first track, then hold down <shift> and select the last. All tracks between them will be selected. UNlink and lock the audio track if necessary.

Slo-mo video is improved. But perhaps not ready for prime time When the middle of three video clips is slowed, slowed video from that clip is appended to the end of the original material on the timeline. My test was at 50% speed. The excess can be excised. Thanks Connor. Now if only you could convince marketing that it would be in their best interest, during install, to cease adding context and start menu items for products that the user hasn't installed. And to always prompt for consent before installing an NCH module that they may not want. IMO, users should be given a UI choice to remove shell integration and an option to list start menu items - especially those for programs that are other than the one being installed.

Likely in the next version. Slo/fast-mo aren't working correctly, as experienced here and reported by others.

Click on the frame you want, in the timeline. Then click on the "camera" icon that's near the right hand edge of the timeline preview window. The image will be saved to your user|PICTURES folder as a large 1920X1080 .png file. For emailing you may want to open it in an image editor to resize it smaller. Perhaps 640 X 480 or 800 X 600. Videopad will open an external image editor that you specify, under OPTIONS|OTHER|IMAGE FILES. If you go that route, first add the saved snapshot to the image clips list, then right-click on it and choose EDIT OUTSIDE OF VIDEOPAD. Edit as desired, then save it and attach it to a mail message. NCH makes the free Photopad. And then there's the world's most popular free editor, Irfanview. http://irfanview.com. During install, watch for "extras" such as toolbars. You may want to UNcheck those options.

http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-Video-Flip-and-Rotate.htm#.UfR-mm3XsyY Watch closely during install for "extras" that you may not want.

That should not hurt the media, as it's a optical process; nothing touches the disk. From NCH HELP FAQ... "Yes. Right-click on the timeline and select Set Bookmarks. These bookmarks will be used to create chapters on the burnt movie."

Francesco, If you need precision audio cutting consider NCH Wave Pad in conjunction with Videopad. It's a full-featured audio editor and free - with some format limitations.