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How do I add a subtle sense of movement to my stills? I knew how to do this at one time, and it was so easy. But I may have upgraded since then, and I just can't remember how I did it.

I spoke too soon. The directions you gave me was for still images. They seem to have a mind of their own. What I have is PP slides to which animation has been added. I need the slides to play and then stay visible on the screen while I add the narration.

How would I cut an audio clip while it is in the timeline (so I can measure just where I want to cut it.)?

Thank you so much!

When I try to use the audio/SFX library, the video disappears behind the audio timeline, so that I can't see what I'm doing. I can't find anywhere in the instructional material that this should happen. How do I fix this?

I tried it and it works!! Thank you so much!

I have a number of slides I want to put in my VideoPad project, but each slide is of a finite duration. If I want the slide to stay on the screen beyond its duration (when it was created), what do I do?

Is there any mechanism for using a synthetic voice to do narration on my slideshow?

Well, I do get myself in a pickle . . .

I needed to have some work done on the audio, and I didn't know that this person who changed my voice on my slideshow would send it back to me in another format. It is now a movie in .mp4. Problem is, I hadn't completed working on it in PhotoStage. In fact, the man told me to take out all background music, etc. so it would not interfere with the voice audio. At his suggestion I downloaded another piece of complicated software, but I don't want to learn another software when I am completely satisfied with PhotoStage.

Any suggestions?

My Mic: Realtek HD Audio Input

Realtek HD Audio Output

(I can hear my normal voice speaking only when I choose Logitech USB Headset in the audio options, which is the microphone I am using, and click "Preview." That is the only setting where I get any voice or anything at all out of Voxal. However, I do not know if this will record or not. I want the voice changing feature.)

Selecting the Realtek audio software and clicking the Preview button, I get "Successfully Processed" (in place of No Active Microphone), and the flickering colored line jumping across the page to indicate the audio is on. But I hear no voice. There is nothing--no screeching or any of those obnoxious sounds when the audio needs adjusting. It seems like it should work, but there is nothing.

I even went into my PhotoStage and recorded one segment of my documentary just to see what would happen, and lo and behold, it printed just as if it was working right. But I get no audio at all, even though it looks like the audio is working and printing in my PhotoStage. Help please!

Gulp!! I didn't know that. This narration, which was sent to me from a friend, contains numbers to keep track of where it fits in the story. Can I possibly load it into another audio editor, trim it up, and then load it into PhotoStage in the appropriate spot? Would that work?

I imported my narration. Now, how do I clip it to fit the story? (Can't find the clipper.)

Excuse me, I think the question is: How do I cut the clip? Where is the cutter?

I want images to slowly fade out, with the next image slowly fading into view. In other words, a slow fade. Instead my images slowly fade out, and the next one appears abruptly no matter what I do. What can I do to correct this?

Update: I found that the transitions control this feature. The longer the transition you post, the slower the fade. Experiment with various transition timings to get the effect you want.

I'm new to PhotoStage. How do I slow down the text scrolling (bottom to top)?

Thank you both so much. I have copied these methods and will try them tomorrow. (Today is Christmas and we're going to PARTY!)

I want one transition to be unique in my video. I want one picture to fade into another. That is, I want one picture and about half way through it, I want the next picture to come in and overwrite that picture w/o taking the first picture out. Can I do that? If so, how?

Video encoded specs:

Video Compresssor H264 (Native)

Video compression settings 10.0

MP3 (Native)

Sound Format 44100Hz, 128 Kbps, Stereo

Excuse me, I made an error. The "Preset" definitely defaults back to "Custom" when I input TV NTSC in the Framerate block, but the Encoder Options>Sound Format stays at 44100 128Hz 128 Kbps, Stereo."

And nothing is saved in .avi.

Do you think I could take this problem into the "shop" somewhere and have a technician do this operation for me? I am thinking of maybe the Geeks and Best Buy? What are the odds that they will know how to do this: Get my .vpj movie into .avi format?

I just completed a short video to be used in testing. I noticed some differences in the instructions and what the software wants to do, as follows:

Instructions were to put HD 720 in the "Preset" block: This changes back to "Custom" when I input "NTSC" in the framerate block (I understand NTSC is correct for North America; PAL is used in the UK.) It only holds when I use PAL.

Encoder Options instructions: Will only take defaults, which is "44100 Hz, 320 kbps Stereo." It always defaults back to this number when I select "44100 (I presume this is correct and the 4100 is a typo.) Hz, 128 kbps Stereo."

And, again, it saved it to .vpj, not .avi.

I'm going to work on it some more, but wanted you to know these details in case they were important.

Thank you both for these good suggestions. I have copied them off so I will have them for easy reference. I will let you know.

Yes, that is the method that I followed each time, and when the video has completed converting to ."avi", I click on the Windows Media Player icon that it is filed under, and out pops NotePad. I must be doing this, but how? Is it possible that NCH programed this glitch into the software so as to "encourage" everyone to purchase their software? (Far out, I know, but I'm grasping for straws here!) The movie is 1 hour, 7 minutes long, plays perfectly in .vpj, and is 408KB in the original .vpj file. I found one person having a similar problem, and the answer was, "Look for File>Export" or words to that effect. When I went to look for File>Export in my VideoPad, I could find no reference to "Export" under the File Menu. Another possibility: Use a separate file converter, so I have looked half the day and could find nothing that will take .vpj and change it to .avi. Is there anyone there who has converted a large file and can tell me how to do it? Or ????

You say: "The best way is to save your finished project (or projects) to your PC as separate avis (as explained above)" Here is where I have a problem. After running the converter program for over 12 hours, I get a message that says: "This file is too big for NotePad. Use another editor," but it doesn't tell me what editor to use. (I have done this twice unsuccessfully.)

Thank you. I have copied this post and will post it in my word for easy reference.

Marilyn

I seriously thank you for providing the good help that enabled me to finish my project. (I'm so excited!) I'm now at the point of uploading it to YouTube, for one, and for another saving it on a DVD disk so that I can share it with friends and family.

Let me say, paranthetically, that I intend to purchase the software from VideoPad. I would have purchased it tonight, but I didn't get paid yet, and I don't have enough money in my budget to purchase until I do get paid, but I am very near. I am so indebted to the technicians who created VideoPad. It didn't get good reviews at download.com but I can only believe that it was because the Novices didn't know how to use the software. I'm very grateful to the technicians and wish to support them in providing this excellent software to the public.

That said, I'm having trouble: 1) saving it in .avi format, 2) uploading to YT, and 3) downloading on a disk. I thought I had saved it in .avi (it says .avi), but YT didn't recognize it. Downloading to a dvd disk, my system says something like "put a disk into the tray" when I have one there all along. So I took everything out and went through the instructions again. When it said, "put a disk into the tray" I did, but it didn't recognize it. YouTube said they didn't recognize the format but would try to upload it anyway. They tried, but in the end they still didn't recognize the format. Could you tell me:

1. How to save the movie to .avi.

2. How to upload to YT.

3. How to save on disk.

It may be that if I could do #1, that may take care of the problem. I am using VP version 2.41.

Thank you. I figured out a work-around for this problem, and it is no longer a problem. Thanks for answering, anyway.

Marilyn

My documentary is finally finished, except when I put the two extra parts on the end, the last thing that appears is the credits. When I had it in three parts, the credits rolled up, the music played. But now that it is finished, the credits are on the end, the music plays but the credits don't appear. They are below the timeline in the script that [is supposed to] roll up, but they do not appear in the timeline.

How do I fix this?