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Congratulations! I heard about this via your March email newsletter. I was interested to see what was new and the newsletter thougthfully linked to the change log. Unfortunately that only covers up to 2.43? Just thought you might want to know. Cheers, Francois

You can find the evaluation here, and the 2-frame DV AVI Type 2 test clip here. Kind regards, Francois

It seems the problem occurs with anamorphic video, like 720x576 4:3 PAL DV in this case. The closest output preset is 768x576. That does produce full-frame 4:3 video, but also causes scaling of otherwise unmodified frames (and makes the output unsuitable for authoring to DVD later in the workflow). Trying to avoid that I set a custom output resolution of 720x576 and that's when horizontal letterboxing occurs. I can't wait! What would really make my day would be Avisynth input too. That would already help a lot. The simplest approach (and which I find easiest to work with by far) is to simply navigate the timeline by frames. Dragging the pointer, or clicking the buttons or clicking the timeline or controlling playback simply scrolls forward or backward so many frames, then naturally stops on a frame boundary. I can't actually think of a single use case where a user would need to position the pointer within a frame? In terms of on-screen values, display the current position in both frame count and time value, and accept input in both forms. That would be perfection in my world! Something else that might also improve from navigating by frames - I see 50fps clips are navigated in 0.04s increments, instead of 0.02s. All test clips I exported without modifications on my part came out 1 frame shorter than the source. The test clips were all Type 2 AVI of varying length, some DV and some Lagarith. This happened regardless of input or whether output was to DV or to Lagarith. In fact, from Rightclick -> Properties on clips in Video Files it seems they are short by 1 frame after input already. I have a handy 2-frame test clip for you if only I could upload it. Of the ones I've come across, VirtualDub and AvsPmod are two of the best examples of exposing and configuring controls for keyboard shortcuts. How do I send the Excel spreadsheet to you? If there's anything else I can contribute or help with, let me know. Your product already scored very highly, and the fact that you are receptive to suggestions well, gives me hope .

Hi Cnr-N©H, I'll reply to your message point-by-point soon, but how do I upload the evaluation results and a sample clip? The forum editor provides a "My Media" button, but I haven't found a way to populate My Media! Thanks, Francois

Hello All from this newbie on the forum, I've been looking for a new, solid editor with lossless input and output, no re-encoding of unmodified frames, no unnecessary deinterlacing or colourspace conversion, and easy frame-accurate navigation. I made a list of important features and started evaluating. VideoPad really impressed me, especially with its multi-track timeline and flexible handling of effects. Unfortunately it came short on a few key issues. Although I've sent feedback to the developers, perhaps it would be useful to them to see how important or not these issues are to other users. How important are they to you? Not letterboxing when exporting from 720x576 DV input to 720x576 DV 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 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 No keyboard shortcuts for Clip Go to and Set In/Out (these become more important due to non-integer frame navigation) Not losing 1 frame when encoding (to DV and Lagarith at least) Preferably make most things shortcutable with configurable shortcuts Especially the first five are key to me and I'd be interested to hear how others see them. Let me know if anyone is interested in the full feature list and VideoPad's results. I just don't know how to attach it here? Thanks in advance, Francois