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Hi, guys. My initial test is promising. I will probably be able to use this at least for the project in front of me; it's lower resolution. Now if it really works, it will work on my other long deferred project, in part because, again, I made these titles by hand with an external program, they looked great, but as soon as I imported them and rendered with videopad I got some degradation and blurriness. Cross my fingers on that one. Thanks for this tip! :)

I have been trying to do this for a couple of projects and it never works. The idea is to take one frame, drag it out (for instance make one frame last 4 seconds) and then make it a title, monochrome or whatever. The idea is there is no motion, it lasts as long as I want, and I can apply effects, and then everything snaps into motion since the title includes in the background the first frame. What happens when I try to do this in Videopad is I just get a clip that duplicates the first 4 seconds of the video. It has sound, hundreds of frames - I might as well have gone to the 4 second mark, split and copied that instead of what I was trying to do. Just now I tried stretching out the smallest piece Videopad will work with, .001s, and it just gave me 4 seconds of something else when I tried to stretch it. So, why does this happen and how can I do what I want to do? Thanks

Hey there. I had a similar question to quickly zoom in on a spot and then zoom out of it. The answer is right here. :)

I did. They are at 512x384. At least that's what virtualdub says it is. That's how videopad detects it too. Version, I was using 5.2 because I don't love the dark color scheme, but I switched over to 6.1 to check and it's pretty much the same, except for some reason 6.1 absolutely refused to make a lossless video with any picture in it. I tried PNG and BMP and both renders "failed." So I compared with the two native renderers at high quality, MPEG4 and H264. H264 was the better of the two, but comparable to the results with version 5.2. As far as general video quality, I think there is something going on when pictures are included in projects. I am going to try some crazy workarounds to putting pictures in my other project because sharpening won't work there (picture frame should be the same as video frame and it is not). For this project, I am going to sharpen the hell out of it and that should work. But it's too bad it doesn't just come out looking good with 1:1 pixels.

The left image is the source file and the right image is a lossless rendering of it. But that's beside the point. The video looks good compressed (of course a little better lossless, but 2x as large). If I could somehow massively increase quality to get the pictures to look the way they do outside of videopad, which I can't, that wouldn't be a solution because of the massive file size. I understand compression, I just don't think what I am experiencing is normal.

The video and images are exactly the same size, 512x384. So there should be no border. Put this aside for a second. In my other project I captured frames, made them grayscale and added captions. So they are literally frames from the same video made into a PNG with some captions. So it should look, if the source file is of good quality, the same as the adjoining video frames. SHOULD... It doesn't look horrible, but it is worse. As the picutre demonstrates. At a glance it's the same. But the details are gone. What format do you use for inserting pictures? Do you do anything special with them other than dropping them in?

I have had this issue for a long time. If I try to add a still image like a PNG to a video, not only will the image itself lose focus, but the video somehow becomes compromised and blurrier. This was a serious issue in my video where I had captured frames, made them grayscale and added captions, because they are immediately compared to adjoining video, so the video gets suddenly blurry and then goes back to sharpness when motion resumes. But even then the video itself isn't as clear when pictures are on the timeline. I have also had abundant issues with audio pops when using images. Here is an example of a title I made in Gimp along with a lossless copy of it in a video. At first glance, it's the same. But check the contrast of the text, and the detail on the texture of the green thing. Look around the rim of the green eye and the base of the tentacles. Oh, just so you know, the image is the same size as the video, custom made for it. That is 512x384. Is there anything I can do about this besides trying to sharpen everything, since I know it won't render right? It looks sharp in the editor. I have even tried converting these PNGs to little video clips. Same thing, it lowers the quality of the image. Help!

I decided to split the last 4 seconds of my clip. Then, I applied the transparency effect with the fade out option. Seems to do it. Thanks for the help!

I have two clips in a project. I want one to fade out for 4 seconds. Then I want the next clip to appear. VideoPad is not letting me do this. If the clip that fades out is the last clip in the project, it works. If not, VideoPad wants to make the next clip fade in. That's totally not what I want. I want fade to black, next clip appear. No fading in involved. Is there a way to do this? Thanks

I see this is a year old, but I had a similar issue and here is the solution, I believe. In the media bin, right click, aspect ratio is 4:3 if your video is stretched. If not and you just want a 4:3 frame, leave this alone. Now you've got a 4:3 video in a 16:9 box. Right click the clip in the media bin again, to crop clip to 4:3; that's perfect. When you export choose whatever you like in 4:3. So many people don't do this correctly and upload 4:3 clips in 16:9 black containers. Thanks for the hint borate.

One of the biggest issues I have with videopad is when I have an unusual resolution, like 1160x900 or 320x240, videopad freaks out. It won't export unless I crop the video (does this indicate not cropping to a preview aspect ratio but cropping the black areas to a clip (original) resolution) or resize it, which is distortion. I'm still not sure what I'm doing when I press crop. Well, I WOULD just change the preview to the source resolution, which is where I get frustrated. Videopad is really picky about which aspect ratios it will preview in. There are presets for 16:9 and 4:3 which is fine for those two aspect ratios, but 5:4 is nowhere to be found. Odd stuff like that 71:40 or whatever it is is also impossible. If I choose my own figures, the preset becomes custom. Fine. But if I don't pick a ratio videopad likes, clicking "OK" in settings does nothing; the window won't close. For instance, it's impossible to select a preview of 540x512. It just won't close the screen. There seems to be no way to know what videopad will accept in terms of preview resolutions (there are also limits apparently). Fortunately 1280x1024 will preview (5:4).