Mickets

The Sequences tool is interesting, and I admit I had to come here to figure out that I could pull sequences in to sequences (and actually ended-up looping some sequences... there's a mental learning curve there). One thing I just can't figure out is how to order the tabs of sequences. For example, I ended up with sequences that contain introduction and titles after the main sequence. I numbered them 1_1, 1_2, 2_1 etc., but they're out of order. I tried dragging the sequence tabs around but nothing happened. Is there a way to reorder the sequence tabs? Thanks again!

OK, so I had a chance to export the project as a portable version and try it on another computer, a high-end i7 running Windows 10, and with 32GB RAM. The only thing is that the version of video pad was an earlier version and it was unable to import the project I had exported. Nevertheless, I started a new project with the same video files. The performance of the preview is outstandingly better, even when using the full video files (not the proxies). But that's what I expected: it's a really high-end computer. But going back to my older Athlon 64... I had since rebooted the computer, and re-opened the project using the proxies. I must say I can't complain, it worked pretty well. Sure, some lag, but less than I had originally mentioned (I also disabled HW acceleration as recommended). I rendered the project (and uploaded it here - in case anyone is interested in tortoises...). I also worked on another quick project. Comparing VideoPad to PowerDirector... moving from PD to VP is like moving from water to wine. VP opens almost instantly, all steps are pretty smooth and fast even on my old PC. I wish I had checked on VP years ago... I wouldn't have left so many uncompleted projects (Hmmmm... my wife might ask me about our 2012 vacation video....). Thanks for all of the support and for a great piece of software. Keep it good and working with the older computers! Michael

Interesting... I resumed my PC from sleep, ran VP (which opened almost instantly - very different from PowerDirector I must say), and opened the project. This is the one using the proxy. And disabled the hardware acceleration option. The preview was instantly much better. So then I enabled hardware acceleration again to check, and... the preview is still quite better. So now I'm puzzled if it's all to do with disabling hardware acceleration or if there's something to do with closing VP completely and opening it again. Regarding testing on other computers: are we eligible to install on a second computer? I have an ASUS T100 tablet running Windows 10. In one way it's better than this PC, while in many others it has its limitations (it won't run PD, for instance). Or I could check if I can try on a relative's PC. I'll look in to sending a snippet, but that might take a few days as this week I'm really busy. THanks

System: Dell Optiplex 740, AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.20 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit Windows 7 (it won't upgrade to 10...) VideoPad 7.34 (purchased just the other day)

I arrived here specifically because of the [missing] Preview Options (which, by the way, are still listed on this page at NHC Software. Let me give some context. I used VideoPad once about 5 years ago, on someone else's computer, and liked it a lot. That was a high-end computer. At home, I still have an older computer (I'm sorry but we really can't afford a new one now). I've edited videos on it for years, mostly using PowerDirector, which is quite good. But the new versions of PowerDirector are just too much for this old computer. So I remembered about VP, decided to give it a go, and... it performed quite better than PowerDirector. So I went ahead and purchased it. But surprise: unlike the old version I used years ago, today I found that the Preview Options aren't there. Search NHC Software site, which says they are there (link above). But now I find this topic. The new methods of caching, the using proxies (which I already did, but didn't know it had a name) are good, but they're not enugh. On my computer the Preview always lags, even with proxies and even waiting to buffer. When I preview, the "buffering..." message pops-up always. I'm not sure if it has to do with the fact that for this specific video, I increased the speed of the clip almost 8x (I tried many ways of increasing the speed or exporting every 8th frame via FFMPEG but it never worked). So in short, IMHO there should be still be the option to decrease the quality of the preview. Despite the aforementioned improvements, this option, I believe, will help those with older computers like mine. Thanks

Hello, I need to add a subtitle on a part of the movie, but it needs to contain a background color fill, so it blends in over the movie's yellow background (and also covers part of it - so transparent won't do). I added the subtitle with the yellow background, but a gray-ish border appears around the rectangle where the subtitles are, noticeably at the bottom and at the right. That is, the subtitle contains a border, that is not in the same color as the selected background. This rectangle does not appear when the subtitles don't contain any background at all. Why is this border being added (and in a color different from the selected background)?