daorus

Wow! Really! 3 minutes ago I recieved a notification email, that you have Videopad 6.31 released. I'm gonna try this version and check if there are any bugs. Anyway, I'm just a hobbist user, who is a huge fan of Videopad, so I will test new versions in future. Thank you, and congrats with new release 6.31. It is so great that Videopad is still alive and constantly grow with new versions!!

After your comment I thought may be the problem is in my headphones and soundcard, which are fine, but quite cheap. Headphones Philips SHP1900 and sound card Creative Sound Blaster Live PCI SB0220 and both of them I use under Windows XP. But I transfered these 2 mp3 files to my android phone and used small headphones, which were coming with phone, when I bought it. And still there is a an audio diffrence: small whistle noise on file after Videopad. Strange news. I thought there is restriction for 2 audio tracks and you can not export 720p at H264 in trial version. Anyway, the #1 reason I started to use Videopad at 2014 was that it has "white" (or light) interface as every other software at Windows XP. But when I look at screenshots of current version Videopad turned to black (dark) interface in order to look like other NLE. For my eyes white font on black surface is painfull and I can not use it for long time.

That is not an absurd issue. To change codec it not a piece of cake. It is something that influences the core of the software and this feature should me implemented with carefull attention. Let's say, they can fix it within 5 minute and add troubles which require to be fixed within 3 months of extra work. This effect is about any complex software: you can not just add or replace feature. There is always so called side effect, which means: when you change something in one place, in some other place something gets broken. As for Videpad as professional software, it is more like a professional bicylce, not a professional car or even not a professional truck. I use Videopad for last 3 years as hobbist (I'm not a professional) and 100% delighted. Everybody around me who earn money from videoediting they would laugh on idea to use Videopad as professional tool. For example in Russia 1 year of professional videoediting software costs 400 USD, that is 320 GBP each bloody year! So, Videopad is a super product for its money and its market niche!!

There is diffrence and I can tell you even more: To produce this melody were used 2 instruments: 1) piano, 2) subbass. First you hear piano and then you hear subbass. And there are 3 parts of mucial material. The noise is produced only when subbass played. When piano starts = no noise. When subbass stops playing noise removes. The problem is in subbass. * * * Bad news for me!! ☹️☃️☂️ I've downloaded trial verison of Videopad version 5.20 and there is no audio corruption for this audio file... that means, that problem is only about my old version 4.11, but for developer there is no need to fix it because there is a much newer version available and it works without audio corruption. So, I think it is just my unluck and I just have to live with that. Version 5.20 is super cool, but I can not afford to buy 5.20 at $34.99, because I use it not for proffesion, but for hobby and now I will downgrade to my version 4.11 with my official serial key. I love it, I can use it automatically and I just try not to use soundtrack with subbass instruments on it.

https://yadi.sk/d/FHYj6XYqJFoh7Q Here is a link to hosting 2 mp3 files (this hosting is similar to Google Drive or Dropbox, but russian equivalent). subbass+1 original.mp3 subbass+1 corrupted by Videopad.mp3 Problem is that when I add audio file to Videopad it adds some whistle nose at high frequency. This noise I hear in Videopad and in exported file. What might be the problem? My verision of Videpad is 4.11 and I love using it! PS. This problem with noise adding is only about this audio file. With other audiofiles there are no problems at all. Just with this file.

Hello everyone! I'm many years user of Videopad and I love it! Today I was videocapturing video instruction how to use website. I used Debut videocapturing and it is super! But now i need to add to final video some kind of animation for hotkeys when I press. For example, when I press Ctrl + C i copy text, when I press Ctrl + V i paste text. People who watch this video instruction might do not know why text apeears from nowhere. In order to make things clear I need to add some animation and may be some voice over like 'Ctrl + C is pressed!' and 'Ctrl + V is pressed!' Question: can you please suggest or give advice how to add this animation over the video? I can use mask in Videopad. So I can create PNG image with transparent background with Ctrl + C text on it. I can apply zoom animation in order to produce cool expanding effect like in videogames. I can add voice 'Ctrl + C pressed!' Question: can I export this ready piece in videofile with alpha channer, so video with transparent background in order I could easily insert this ready video-pieces in places where I press this hot key combinations in my video manual? Or I am cursed to produce this animation each time i need it?

Thank you for answers. This is a GREAT news!! Thank you so much. I will use timeline mode only when it is needed, and try to work in storyboard mode most of time.

Q1: I have sequence in sequences in sequence, and add some change in initial material. Do all these sequences re-render themselves and therefore eat CPU time, or they are just containers which hold initial material? Q2: is there any sence to keep all the sequences in storyboard mode in order to descrease amount of re-render, or it does not matter timeline or storyboard mode and re-render of cache after each change is the same? Q3: it there any tool to stop cache re-render, make all changes and after that turn on cache re-render in order not to init cache re-render immediatelly?

ok

Please, point out starting from which version GPU render is supported.

Just to mention: there are Open GL and that means what you say. But also there are Open CL, which allows to use GPU as an ordinary processor and therefore, it is possible to use GPU resources to render video x10 faster without 3D GL way of doing things.

ok!

Nat, you are genius!! That is do simple and so effective trick!! Thank you so much. By the way, here is some usefull tip for this Nat's solution. Everytime we playback video, system puts new update time (new timestamp on file). This is feature of OS Windows can be desabled by this command in Win + R window: > fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1 I tuned off timestamp update not because of Videopad, but because of SSD. When this option is turned off, there a much less useless writes IO operations on files and therefore SSD lives longer. But now we see, that there additional usefull feature: we can see how much real time it took to render final video. Nat, great thank you once more!!

I have this dialog box on exporting video. Question: how can I find out what time it took to export video, if I was drinking tea when video was rendering and I could not catch the moment when it was done. Maybe there are some log file or some option to show total time?

There are 2 ways of exporting H264 (Way #1) Choose HD720 and *.avi format + H264 (Native) codec in "Encoder options..." (Way #2) Choose Youtube 720p and *.flv format and use as it is I see in taskmanager they both use x264enc7.exe and lame.exe Question: what is the core difference between these two ways of making H264/MP3 videos? Which should be faster or they both should be of the same time/speed? PS. I use VP Pro v 4.11 (so, may be my quesion is not active for current version any more, but maybe ok...)

If you can fix DJI Osmo instead of GoPro to your helmet you will get 10 times better video than with GoPro. I guaratee you that! Also there is a device which is designed espessially for GoPro which can turn your GoPro into DJI Osmo. It is called Feiyu G3 Handheld Stabilizer for GoPro Price is $239. And it has ability to be fixed on motobike helmet. I do not know how helmets for horce riding look like, but I think you can fix it anyway. Also, today there is a flying copter DJI Phantom. Price is $699 or you can rent it for $50 a day. It can fly near you and take video without shaking.

If you shoot horse riding try to use DJI Osmo It is a 4K camera and is awalable for sale already. Price is $649.

1) TGA image files are used in Videopad with no problem as any other images like JPEG or PNG. Just import them as images and put on timeline... You can even Drag&Drop them from Expolorer 2) You can change duration of any image to length you want. You can change it by entering exact numbers in seconds. Or you can visually drag them longer or shorter on timeline. 3) If you want them to be imported on timeline with exact duration you can change settings in Options -> Media Tab -> Default Still Image Duration (seconds) parameter.

Nat, I 100% agree that beginners need more information about elements. But this situation is like with children. When they are 5 year old they need our help. But when they are 16 year old our help would hurt them. And your children say: "Hey, Daddy! I love you, but please, stop, I'm not 5 year old anymore. Just let me live my life myselft" The same is with this animated tip. PS. I know it because I am professional web delveloper and produce complex software like CRM and ERP. And I do know that there is a huge difference between interface for new student girl and for expert woman with 3 year of experience. Software is the same, but interface is always diffrent. We use the rule: when you add some new feature ALWAYS add and option to configure it or to turn off/on. And in all our products we have so called options profiles. If you are newbee just load Profile for newbees and options would be set for minimum interface elements and everyting is simple. If you are professional just load Profile for professionals and you can see all elements. And of course, everybody can tune up software for itself and save custom options. This approach is used in IDE for coders. Everycoder wants to tune IDE for itself and save personal settings. The same is with Videopad, because I think that editing movies is a kind of coding, but coders work with text of program code and editors work with clips and images, but it is very like visual coding. Nat, you don't need to relick dialog because length of transition can be changed visually by dragging orange line between clips. And you can easyliy adjust transition without opening dialog. Nat, you can do it now! Just select clips you want add transition by holding SHIFT + Click in top menu choose Transition and chose transition you want to add In popup dialog choose Apply to all In Options dialog on Editing tab you can set parameter Default transition duration

c_major, I DO understand why you did this. When I first saw this animation I immediatelly realzied that it is for new people. This animation is a kind of help. And you know too much help in real life can be a problem. Imagine a dialog in a restaraunt. Waiter Can I help you? You No thank you. Waiter Can I help you? You No... THANK you. Waiter Can I help you? You NO!! THANK YOU!!! Waiter Can I help you? You FUCK YOU ASS HOLE!! I AM LEAVING!!! AND NEVER GET BACK!! Waiter What did I do wrong?... I just wanted to help you and provide a better serivce... So the lesson of this situation is that when your coders do something they do not test this feature for many times usage. They've tested it for 3-5 times and this is ok. But when you see this animation for 200-300 times it gets a real problem. It is like with cars. You can make a car engine and run 100 km. And it is ok. But to find out if it is really ok you need to run 100 000 km in diffrent modes and seasons and only after that you can say that engine is really good. In Russia we call this a stress test.

In v. 4.14 there is a new feature When we place cursor over icon in effects dialog now icons ara animated. Videoediting is a process where mental concentration is very imporant, because you have hundrends of pieces of video, images and audio and you have to match them in final result. And every additional which "eats" my attention kills my nerves and blocks editing. Working with these animated icons now are like working in a room where light is always blinking because of broken lighting builbs. It is very annoing!!! Question: how can I turn off these animated icons? PS. A month or ago I mentioned that if some developers of your team wants to make SOME COOL SUPER feature, just add an option to turn if off, because this new COOL SUPER feature may be not so super and may be just a PAIN IN THE ASS. The same situation was when your team added a feature with automatic sound playback on cursor move. That was so awafull that I had to roll back to v.2.41 !!!! And now we have the same situation: they added some automatic trash and it kills productivity of me as video editor. So I ask developers: 1) If you want to make some new cool feature, come here on this forum and ask if your idea great or not 2) If you added some new feature, add and option to turn it off and allow professional users to use old tested and proven way of inderface.

As for me I do not use built-in subtitle function at all I make PNG files in Paint.NET with transparent background and place them on timeline as images This stratagy gives me unlimited and powerfull creative control over the final result. For example, in this video I made for you lately https://www.dropbox....b_test.avi?dl=0 these three shots with text are PNG files They are not subtitles with transparent background they are PNG with black background but I think you got the idea I wanted to tell you

When you upload video to youtube account you can set access level: public, url or private. If you set private nobody will see you video. If you set url-access only people who know exact url of your video can see this video. If you set to public everybody can find and watch your video. As for me, I upload video to youtube, stabilize it, download back and delete video. My youtube account is always empty of videos. I use it for stabilization pursoses only. This is the key problem, that youtube converts video to mp4 which is worse quality than H264. As personally for me, I ask myself what do I prefer most: 1) H264 quality with shaking or 2) MP4 quality without shaking (stablizied) And my personal answer is 2) option. But there is a little trick. You can convert your 1080 to 4K, upload, stabilize, download and convert back to 1080 H264 and quality would be great. PS. Of course the best solution would be to use this thing But in real life it is not always possible to use it.

Now I was making fast this test video for gaab https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0hse6detq4y9g8/stab_test.avi?dl=0 and suffered one new problem: I wanted to rotate video to make horizon whithout decline, but Rotation effect allows only 1* or 2* degrees but for this video it is too much and to make horizon horizontal I need to rotate video for 0.45* degress but rotation effect does not allow me to do this!!!

Look at this test video I prepared right now for you and I think you will change your mind!!! https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0hse6detq4y9g8/stab_test.avi?dl=0 I do vish all best to Deshaker, but Deshaker sucks comparing to Google stab. The reason is that Google stab findes planes and coorrect video to 3d model, but Deshaker just uses points.