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This behaviour (overwriting any existing clips instead of inserting) can be caused by 2 things: 1) If you have the Alt key pressed when positioning the clip, it will overwrite instead of insert, or 2) If you have any locked tracks VideoPad will be unable to move clips, and will default to overwriting instead. I see in your pictures that Audio Track 2 is locked, which is preventing the Insert behaviour. I would recommend Unlock Audio Track 2 Reposition the clip you want (Note that this will split and move the music on Audio Track 2) Move the clip back together on Audio Track 2) Lock Audio Track 2 to prevent any further unwanted changes. I hope this helps!

In your screenshot, I see that you have multiple effects applied to the clip. However, you then say that Crop doesn't work. This would be because you still have the mask active, so only a crop that affects the area inside the mask will have any effect. What you want is "Mask -> Blur -> Clear Mask -> Crop" (the Clear Mask effect is the button with the red X (third from the left) next to the Add Mask button (second from the left)). If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Hi MikeLuk, What version of VideoPad are you using? I can't seem to reproduce your problem in the latest version (5.01).

Hi, The default only applies when you install VideoPad. If you ever manually change the resolution, whatever you change it to overwrites the default values.

The fullscreen-preview dialog defaults to the size of the largest video source, or the size of your monitor, whichever's smaller. The normal playback preview defaults to 768x432, as we've found that to be a good balance between quality and speed. EDIT: Either way, I'm glad that your problem's fixed

From what you've told me, there's 2 possibilties. 1) If you're clicking the "Preview" button, or "File->Preview Project...", and it opens up a separate window. In this case, it's most likely due to the complexity of the sequence. That window doesn't buffer at all, and a high resolution / framerate (down the bottom of the window) or complicated effects, or many tracks, all can cause what you're describing. In this case, unfortunately the only options are to either lower the resolution / framerate, or (if that doesn't help) just assume that the sequence preview is good enough. Normally I would suggest you export at a lower resolution, but the free version tracks your export count. 2) If you're just hitting play in the main window In this case, there's a few options. You could try clearing the cache (Open a blank project, then go to "Tools->Options->Disk (Tab)" and click "Clear Unused Cache Files") You could also try lowering the preview resolution (Right-click the preview, select "Change Preview Resolution...").

Hi Serafin, Because the source material is 4:3 and not 5:4 (i.e. 1.333 and 1.25) you're going to get some borders unless you crop the edges by scaling the image up, or stretch the image to take up all available space (both of these can be done with the Scale video effect). I would try both to see what is preferable. Unfortunately, it looks like you're going to either have a missing part of the video (scaling the image up, off the edge), or a minor loss in image quality caused by stretching the image. Side note: In the clip bin (left of the preview) you can right-click and choose an aspect ratio to force the video to that aspect ratio

To clarify, The bookmarks are in the DVD as Chapters, but they are not accessible directly from the menu. You would be able to press "Go to next chapter" on your player, but there is no way to properly browse chapters (unless your player has some build-in method of doing this. VLC for example just lists "Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3" etc in it's "Playback" menu)

Could you please try running VideoPad as Adminstrator (even with an account with Administrator, right-clicking and choosing "Run as Administrator" can still help) as this can sometimes help the problem. Alternatively, go to the x264enc7.exe file in questions and make sure you have permissions to access it (Right-click, Properties, Security tab). It might also be worth going to "Advanced" on that page and making sure that you're the owner of it (up the top).

If you want to export to 720x576 without having to either crop or resize, set the preview's resolution to 720x576 (or a multiple thereof e.g. 360x288, 180x144, basically anything with a 5:4 aspect ratio). Setting the preview resolution can be accomplished by either right-clicking the preview and select "Change preview resolution..." or by going to Tools -> Options -> Display (Tab).

Correct.

Oh, I see what's happened here (TL;DR at the end). Minor technicality here, the preview aspect ratio (not resolution, although it's determined by resolution) does have a (very) minor impact on export. If the preview resolution is 16:9 and you export, VideoPad will do all the rendering in a 16:9 aspect large enough to accommodate the export resolution, and then (if it needs to) apply a letterbox or crop to get the video to the export aspect ratio (in this case, 4:3) Example 1: Preview at 320x240, export at 320x240 VideoPad just exports straight to 320x240 Example 2: Preview at 1920x1080, export at 320x240: If you choose "Crop edges" when exporting: VideoPad does it's processing at 427x240 (16:9 like preview) VideoPad crops the edges off, down to a 320x240 resolution and exports that If you choose "Resize to fit" VideoPad does it's processing at 427x240 (16:9 like preview still) VideoPad adds black bars to the top and bottom, shrinking the video so that it fits in a 320x240 resolution (i.e. shrinking the video to 320x180 with bars on top/bottom) TL;DR VideoPad will use the preview aspect ratio to export, and then make it fit your chosen export aspect ratio. This will lead to a change in bitrate as the video encoded changes.

(backup your project first) If you remove all the audio you recorded with VideoPad, does it then export successfully? what about the debut recorded audio?

Preview resolution and framerate should have no impact on exported video. The only way in which it should possibly impact is time taken to export (i.e. If the CPU is busy generating the preview, it can't spend all its energy on the export). My testing doesn't show any difference exporting the same thing over and over again with different preview resolutions. The only time that should happen is if you have something inherently random (e.g. a noise effect) that would affect encoding. Borate, when you were exporting, were you exporting the exact same thing (same project, no edits, same export settings), with no effects, and just the preview resolution changed?

Hi, (TL;DR at the end) If you select all the clips you want to have a transition between them, you can then use the "Transitions->Fades->Fade through white" from the top menu, and VideoPad will then ask if you want to apply the transition to all the selected clips. To change the duration for all of the transitions, BEFORE setting the transition you can go to "Tools->Options...->Editing<tab>" and set the "Default transition duration (seconds):" value there. All the transitions you add to clips using this method will try to have this duration. To select multiple track clips, select one, then either shift+click on another clip, and it will select all clips between the first and second one (including them) ctrl+click to select clips one by one (this method allows you to select non-consecutive clips) Unfortunately, if you want the transition to have differing durations, you'll need to edit the transitions individually. TL;DR version: Go to Tools -> Options... -> Editing (the tab) and set transition duration there Select clips you want to put a transition on (the transition will go on the end of the clip Click Transitions -> Fades -> Fade through white Select "Apply To All".

These are only thoughts, combined with a bit of google... I think it's something to do with the Use Hardware-Accelerated Video Effect option, but there's a chance it's something else. There's a chance that updating all of your non-video drivers could help. There was another forum somewhere where someone was getting a similar problem, and it turned out to be an old usb 3.0 driver overflowing and corrupting the directX driver. There's also the possibility of the hardware (video or graphics card) having a fault. Thirdly, there's a possibility that there's actually a bug in the code. IMO this seems unlikely, as you're the only one reporting this problem (anyone reading feel free to prove me wrong on this). One thing the code doesn't account for particularly well is if you run out of video memory. If you're exporting at a larger resolution than the preview, you might be running out of video memory, but this is unlikely. Also possible is the video card overheating under the increased load. If I were you, I'd try updating various drivers, and then, (if you're still getting the BSOD,) just keep the Use Hardware-Accelerated Video Effects checkbox un-ticked.

Hi Various things could increase the file size. If all you did was cut out a bit of the video, then most likely VideoPad defaulted to a higher quality encoding than the original source video used. To solve this, you can reduce quality by clicking "Encoder Options..." on the export dialog, and changing some of the values there. There are other things like resolution, framerate, and whether or not "Constant frame rate" is ticked that could also influence file size.

As said above, delete the folder "C:\Users\Euro-Lan\AppData\Roaming\NCH Software\Components\" You can also try right-clicking VideoPad and choosing "Run as Administrator"

Does the error go away if you right-click VideoPad and choose "Run as Administrator"?

Have you tried changing the PREVIEW framerate above the default of 30fps? By default, it changes EVERYTHING in the preview to 30fps, and export is different again. The preview won't be EXACTLY what is exported, but it will be very close. To change the PREVIEW framerate to e.g. 60fps, you can either: Right click on the preview, and select "Change Preview Resolution..." to set the resolution and framerate of the preview, or Select "Tools->Options->Display Tab" and edit the settings there. The preview's next/previous frame button now works off the preview frame rate, so changing it to 60fps should make it so those buttons offset the time by 16/17ms.

Hi, This message appears when you try to playback (e.g. for export) a sound clip before VideoPad has finished caching the sound clip. If it's not completing after a while (i.e. the message keeps coming up), try: Creating a new blank project, and then Go to "Tools->Options->Disk Tab" and Click the "Clear Unused Cache Files" button. This will completely clear the cache, and the next time you open your project it will have to regenerate all cache files. This should fix the problem.

Unfortunately, there is no way of doing this within VideoPad. If you gave each of the clips a random name somehow, then multi-selected them in the clip-list pane and drag-dropped them onto the sequence (or Ctrl+W), then they would be added in alphabetical order. You can use View->Media Bin->List View and then View->Media Bin->Sort to change to other types of sorting, too, and VideoPad will add them in whatever order they display as. You could also use keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process, e.g. Click a random clip / select a random bunch, then Ctrl+W to place them at the end of the sequence, then repeat.

Hi Ivan, This is unfortunately due to an oversight with the new GPU-accelerated effects, where we double-multiply alpha values (e.g. 50% alpha would become 25% alpha) This will be fixed in the next release, however until then you can go into Tools->Options->Editing tab and un-check the "Use hardware-accelerated video effects" box. You'll have to clear the cache afterwards to notice the effect in preview, but export would be un-effected (I personally have the "Clear all cache files on exit" box ticked under Options->Disk, so it clears the cache fully when I restart VideoPad).

Hi Nat, VideoPad always indexes whatever video file is loaded (unless it's already cached the index), but it only takes a noticeable amount of time for very large / long files, as it has to read through the entire movie first. Please note that this is NOT the same as caching the video preview, that's a separate process that takes much longer. As for the message about loading effect icons, VideoPad generates the effect and transition icons on the first run after each installation, so that message shouldn't bother you again.

If you don't have any luck deleting it manually, does right-clicking and choosing "run as Administrator" fix the problem?