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Russ Croucher

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  1. I have a procedure that loads up photo stage with up to 200 slides, writes them to MP4 file, and then writes the final result with video pad. I had one customer with 9000 slides in this procedure called photo stage 45 times solve her problem. All my procedures do not use a mouse and I am trying to solve the problem of adding text overlay to a slide but I don't know how to do this without using a mouse. it seems that the text overlay command requires you use the mouse to select which type of text option. I also tried to use the subtitle command but it also requires the mouse to get out of the textmode (apply button). A mouse is not available for me on the workstations. These are automated procedures that can take up to 24 hours to process 9000 slides on a very fast workstation. With my business(centralvirginiavideo.com) I am currently using version 10.61 because I'm happy with the version and if I blindly upgrade I will be outside my 6 month window and I would have no problem upgrading for the cost but I don't want to upgrade if it doesn't solve the problem.. If I knew the new version allowed me use keystrokes I would update all the workstations to the new version. help help help ideas?
  2. I just want to point out. I was able to update my TCC script to handle the case of the no project case using the name "untitled". I am using the current version of 13.63 of Videopad. I just created a project named "untitled". That way I don't get the name of the computer and the date and time. It also allows my project to go past midnight without any problems.
  3. Thanks for the input. That's when I'm going to do capture everything at 640x480 with debut send it to MP4 and then use Videopad for the rest like image stabilization. -0-0- My solution to the problem was to play the video with media player and then use Debut to do a screen capture. I do believe they're doing something unusually wrong in the format but I do want to retrieve what the customer recorded. Maybe there's an easy fix down the road but this works great. I will say I've had many DVDs where I can just read the entire DVD with Videopad and create an MP4. This is the 1st time I had anytime of audio problem. But this is a good working solution except I cannot read the VOB files directly.
  4. I'll keep looking at it. I get a lot of flak about it because VLC can read it no problem. I understand. Yes it may be not standard borrow I do about the guy created these files 20 years ago. I cannot create an ISO image because "imgBurn" says it's a DVD-ROM and it cannot create an ISO image. Does your disk reader create images from these discs? One thought is I could use VLC to create a 640x480 window and then use debut to copy the entire thing to creating a clean MP4 file with no delay. What you guys think?
  5. What I need help with a workaround to take the DVD stick it in the computer and drag-and-drop it to the media bin which will read all the VOB files in order. Then I take all those and drag them to the timeline to create a MP4 file. But somehow these VOB files have an audio delay which is causing issues with Videopad. I have verified that VLC does not have the problem.
  6. In working with a customer that has DVDs I have discovered an audio delay in the VOB file going always back to 11.20 version. So I was able to go all the way back to version 11.20, dated February 2022 up to the current version to show that there some type of audio delay. I have created several project files and put on the cloud link below to help try to solve this problem. https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqotVabQCqjPf0lQpIA?e=6mUkvt I'm looking for help the possibly someone can come up with a workaround to help solve this customer's problem. The project file once is loaded actually position the cursor white where you can play the video and see a baby playing with the piano and you hear the sound several seconds later. Help help help!
  7. It looks like I should be able to get around "untitled" issue by creating a project named "untitled". That way the export will still do untitled 1 through XX without having to create an export project name. It's easy for me to change filenames outside of Videopad, it is just rather difficult inside video pad.
  8. For over 30 years I have been engineer working in large companies with complicated software in C and C++. Now years later I have my own business using many different software pieces. I'm on the other side of the coin buying your software but yet understanding the problems that you're having. I always said engineers are lazy we don't like to do the work. The above example is perfect because I took 9000 slides and automated a procedure so the computer just spit out the MP4s using your 2 programs after 9 hours of work. I'm actually currently have a problem with Videopad that I'm trying to understand if any my procedures are going to be harmed. I took advantage of the fact that you had your unnamed projects labeled "untitled" with all versions all the way up to 13.35. Now I just loaded the latest version 13.61 and it uses the current date plus the name of the computer as its default project. Using my above example this would cause a problem after midnight because the date would go to a new date and I'm going to make a suggestion that least you support the old version maybe with the checkbox in the options because it's a great idea in general but not for people like me.
  9. I've been having a problem with PhotoStage in that one particular option was using up a tremendous amount of memory. I was hoping to help the developers to solve this problem but it doesn't really matter. With this option turned on (filename as text overlay). I was only able to store 222 photos until the program locked up. Without this option turned on. I was able to get well over a thousand. I had to write my own program over top of PhotoStage (scrip oriented using TCC.exe) to handle thousands of photos. 1 of my customers gave me 9000 slides to have the filenames scrolling along the bottom. So my script very carefully submitted 200 photos to PhotoStage 50 times to produce this result. This took 9 hours on a very fast workstation using SSD's. I think this is something that could be incorporated in PhotoStage as a very good asset. In talking with the customer, this is the smallest set of photos and video. Since it organize them by folder. It creates an MP4, of the folder name. Now what does this have to do with Videopad? We use Videopad to stitch all the outputs from PhotoStage into one large MP4 with cross fade transitions into the file. These cross fade transitions require the "ctrl-7" key. My TCC script does not allow for ctrl-7 combination key with numbers. So I want to propose that we use "alt-7" as another alternative. The script does allow this combination and is not used in Videopad anywhere. We could do this with all of the control keys with numbers to alt keys with numbers. I want to make a post here to get some inputs from people. The link below is a single small PhotoStage file with the filenames scrolling below on the pictures that was okayed from my customer. https://1drv.ms/f/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqdNBvu9Ip0kCrg7Xpw?e=eRh4Og Thanks for all your help Russ Central Virginia Video
  10. I think I figured out the problem with photo stage and the upper limit of JPEG's. There is an option that I use that is causing a memory problem. It's located in options under other and there's a checkbox "Include Filename as text overlay". If this box is turned off I can easy import well over 1100 JPEG's which is the largest I have. With that box checked. I have issues once it hits about 250. It goes through crashing process. My suggestion is if the user checks that box have the program give the operator some indication this is going to use a lot of memory and increase the available runtime memory by at least 5X. This would easily solve the problem without making any software changes. I know my case I have 32 gigs of RAM and everyone my workstations.
  11. I did use this the version because I need the filename scrolling on the bottom. I just noticed that it becomes unusable after about 300 slides. I have a business(centralvirginiavideo) of converting videos and slides for the future generations. So I have a procedure that takes the descriptions of the slide and applies it to the name of the slide. Then all those slides are put into a movie using photo stage so the kids don't have to click at all the slides. Since I was in software 40 years, I am working on a procedure that takes 200 slides at a time and creates a photo stage project that creates a MP4 of all the slides and then uses video pad to merge all the MP4's together. I have several customers with over a thousand slides in each folder because that's what they use for their documentation. When I get this procedure completed I will post it on here so that you can download it using the latest version of photo stage and video pad. I do all these procedures in a program that's all batch level written that Microsoft abandoned command line 25 years ago with NT. They never added new features. Then a company called 4DOS came out and took it to the next level. This continued for many years until finally it was sold to another company, JP software, Inc. These guys have a free runnable license that you can install to run all their procedures you only need to pay for a license if you want to write your own software. I specifically use these guys because it's easy to look through the procedure yourself and decide if you want to tweak it. I have all kinds of procedures that is written over top of video pad using this concept. It even has the concept of waiting for the video pad processors execution to be completed before it stuffs more keys in the process. This is because the brilliance of some of the software guys they would clear the keyboard buffer before doing a new operation. But I have many computers that do automation. Some folders might take 10 hours to do all their operations that video pad is running.
  12. I did just update the 1st the 10.29 and did change the default file name size from 14 down to 10. That actually makes the filename fairly useful even though I would probably use somewhere around 6.
  13. I just verified with 559 slides copied into the program to do an export it never finished. The program loaded fine but the export seem to be the problem. I also noticed he was only using 1 of the 6 threads in the workstation. So that just convinces me for going ahead and do one 200 slides a time which seems to work fine. Then I will use video pad to merge all the MPEG-4's together.
  14. JanP, Thanks for the heads up I met she working on procedure right now that will take several hundred slides in chunks export the file to an MP4 and then use video pad to combine them into one export. That way the procedure to run off in the background when nobody's looking. I was just looking for the upper number and I'm going to try today. This get an idea of the size. I will submit a request because it seems to have good effect. Once I have a working procedure I will make the post public and you can download it because it's just batch file stuff.
  15. I'm loading folders of slides into Photostage and there seems to be an upper limit on to the number of slides before the program becomes too slow. I found that 225 slides or less works great. Somewhere around 300 slides is a problem. Does anybody know what the limit is where it slows down incredibly too slow? At this point I'm going to write my own code to convert 200 slides at a time. I have some folders that have over 1000 slides. I like the idea that Photostage adds the file name to the slides scrolling on the bottom. I will then use video pad to merge all the MP4 files into one final product. I would automate this entirely since I could start this procedure on a computer in the background. What you think?
  16. DannR, Thanks for the feedback. I figured it was the default I didn't have much choice. I will make a suggestion in the post above. What I was also looking at since I do C# and C++ code. Maybe an modifying the project file directly and changing the font size that way. I have way too many slides to do it manually. But I can easy write a program that can modified the project file to the font size. I just don't know where in the file the font sizes located because it looks like it's done is 16 bit wide format not in ASCII. Here is a particular project with several slides.. Of course all come with the font size of 14. I would really like size 6. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqcxMQXfUHeqEU6jlpw?e=XHvFEh I write code to go over top of video pad to do what I would like. I could do this with photos stage but it would be extremely slow. It would be nice to take a project file and just quickly modify it to the font size I would like until you can incorporated into automatic method. Thoughts?
  17. I am creating many video files of slides that generate automatic filenames scrolling along the bottom but I cannot seem to change the filename text size. It seemed to be stuck at 14. I can go into each slide and edit the text box and change it to 8 which is my preferred but this is very time-consuming since I have 9000 slides convert. Is there any way to have a default number different than 14? The scroll left to right up and down all that is preserved but not the text size. I've tried several different methods like outputting 3840x2160 and then downsizing it to 1920x1080 which will reduce the actual character size but that scroll speed is too fast. I need some suggestions. Is it possible?
  18. I am creating many video files of slides that generate automatic filenames scrolling along the bottom but I cannot seem to change the filename text size. It seemed to be stuck at 14. I can go into each slide and edit the text box and change it to 8 which is my preferred but this is very time-consuming since I have 9000 slides convert. Is there any way to have a default number different than 14? The scroll left to right up and down all that is preserved but not the text size. I've tried several different methods like outputting 3840x2160 and then downsizing it to 1920x1080 which will reduce the actual character size but that scroll speed is too fast. I need some suggestions. Is it possible?
  19. One comment for future reference. Video pad does not use any GPU at all and is turned off inside video pad. The video was perfect inside of video pad and it wasn't until I turned off the encoding with tools the actual MP4 completely worked fine. Personally I don't care if it's a little slower because I have so many workstations.
  20. Most of my workstations are using a simple K620 Quadro card. Years ago I did a lot of GPU Quadro coding and maybe I want to run my old software once in a while. I could look to see if I have something else in some of the other computers.
  21. I think we figured out the problem with your help. It appears to be the GPU is turned on or set to default. When I explicitly turn it off it works 100%. Now what do I do I must need to update my graphics driver somehow is that right? It's nice to see it's not a software bug but a hardware problem that we can fix.
  22. What OS are you running it on? Windows 10, Windows 11, Mac OS? I'm trying to figure out the green flicker but I did not delete the temp files without help you think? It looks perfect inside of video pad.
  23. Okay I'm totally frustrated. I'm using 64-bit 12.33 Windows 10 and Windows 7 and occurs at 29 seconds into the MP4 file with video pad not loaded. I noticed your videos and they work great which is what I noticed with version 10.06. I don't know what to do. I have tried with old Windows media player, new Windows 10 film and TV player, and VLC with Windows 7. They all seem to do it. I have actually loaded the same video into Facebook and it also does it. Can you play my 12.33 version see what it does?
  24. I've been doing software for 40 years and one thing I've learned is we make great improvements usually at the cost of other bugs. That is why I keep a copy of every version I receive. I ran into a problem with the transition effect using a cross fade transition. The problem also occur with other transitions like swipe from left to right, but did not like the result. So I have included the project file along with all the raw files with the transitions. I made sure the project file was version 11 so it can be loaded with both old and new versions of video pad. Here is the link: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuSetTxgq7JxqbsZqQD4rfyDaPbimg?e=TMkXLN I did a binary search on all the versions that I have to figure out what version last worked with this project. I came up with version 10.06 dated January 19, 2021. The cross fade transition works beautifully. There appears to be two bugs and I have a flickering problem that showed up in version 10.36 dated May 1, 2021. The latest version 12.33 has both a green flicker in the cross fade seems to work below the flickering. The reason I think this problem has never surfaced is because in the dual screen of video pad it works fine. It's only in the creation of the MP4 where you notice the problem. That's what makes the problem so frustrating is when you're in video pad and play everything looks great. But when you create an MP4 you see the flicker. I have not yet tried other output file formats. Thoughts?
  25. I just ran my test procedure on my digital 8 video and the interlace problem is still present with version 12.33. Do we have a date when they're going to fix this problem? I ran this procedure because of another bug I found and getting ready to create a new thread.
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