I'm not finding it easy to get started with Videopad (bought in 2018! !). Clearly it's a great system, but I need help to get going. I'm very deaf and for me the Youtube tutorials are too cryptic, with a need to watch both subtitles and the GUI. Not easy. Learning by doing has not yet been successful: lots of doing but experimentation has not yet revealed how the system works. So, finally I am posting in hopes that help will come and light will dawn.
For example, what is a "clip"? The faq lists the different types of clip, but does not actually define clip (by analogy, persons can have various genders, but we need first to define person). Is clip simply a synonym for video, audio, image, etc? An imported video file seems to become a clip when it is imported to Videopad. But if it is then subdivided into several bits, are they too clips? Confusingly, for me, the properties for an entry in the "Video Files Bin" includes File info (location, duration), but also clip info (clip duration, start-time, end-time). But there is only one entry per file, even if the file has been sub-divided into several parts ("clips??"). Is there no listing of clips somewhere (other than looking at the Timeline or Storyboard)?
I have a few video files, each of which I want need to sub-divide into several clips (A, B, C etc), to form a sequence of clips, eg A,C, B (and effects, in due course). I had expected that the clips A-C would appear in a "clip bin". And from there I would arrange them in a sequence. But I can find no list of them clips! Such a list would allow me to create another sequence from them. Is there no list/bin/folder of such clips?
What am I missing?!
Mystified/frustrated/ in hope
Michael
(The username carbonze reflects my use of radiocarbon, C-11 in plant science, analogous to F-18 for PET imaging and mammalian physiology. Those nuclides decay in a similar way by emission of a positron).