simonsays

Fiddling around with auto-match content eventually did the trick for me.

And *zoom* effect proved to be more useful than *crop*

Thanks!

So, do I understand correctly that there is no possibility to change the aspect ratio of an eventual video? From 16:9 to 5:4?

Hello,

Is there a way in videopad to crop out a portion of a video without paddings?

I have a 1980x1080 video (16:9) and I would like to cut out a rectangular area from the middle (5:4).

I use "Crop" effect and select "Crop and Zoom" in "Widescreen Fit" on export yet it still adds paddings to the left and to the right.

That's super helpful! Thanks!

6 minutes ago, Nationalsolo said:

Hi

Not sure if there is an easy way. Can't see one if there is. You could load the srt file into say, Notepad and then add a new line into the subtitle texts  so they are all a suitable length. (just the long ones. You can do this visually for all the long texts in one session. if you then do a save it remains an srt file. Obviously where you add a new line to shorten the long texts it creates two (or more) subtitle lines in the video.  Have a play and see if that might work.

Alternatively use the S/T format (All subtitles) option to reduce the font size. Might work.

Nat

Thanks for the reply, that gave me some ideas!

That would be a nice feature, since there is some formatting already.

I can loop through .srt file programmatically using a PHP script (did not realize that this was just a text file), I just thought that there is something that works out of the box.

Hello,

I was wondering, does VideoPad have a way to format the width of the .srt subtitles imported?

I have subtitles, but some of them are so long, that they exceed the width of a video. Is there a way to limit the line width? It's just super annoying to go through a 30 min video and format every single sentence manually.

On 4/6/2020 at 6:53 AM, NotADevWinkWink said:

@simonsays We have changed it so that in the next release, we will use a subfolder within the user-specified cache folder for sound caching.
Until then, the sound cache generates for the full duration of all imported clips; it's caching ~30min x 14 clips = 7 hours of sound, not 98 minutes. If you're able to, you could try exporting the smaller section of each clip you need, close videopad, clear sound cache, then open videopad and import the shorter clips.

Another, advanced workaround would be to change where your system temp folder is. Doing this *shouldn't* break anything, because anything in the temp folder is meant to be temporary. For details on how to do this, google is your friend (I found https://www.howtogeek.com/285710/how-to-move-windows-temporary-folders-to-another-drive/ fairly easily).

Looking forward to the next release. Thanks for the reply!

42 minutes ago, borate said:

Your sound cache shows 12 Gigs?  Here it's 92 MB, after fiddling with several projects.  How long is your project?

It uses 14 clips, ~30 mins each

They are turned into trailers, ~7 mins each. So 98 mins in total

33 minutes ago, borate said:

The sound cache will always go to C:\.   That cache should not tax your drive/PC.

A beta release will be out shortly;  worth testing.   https://www.nchsoftware.com/beta/

Okay...

Except it takes about 12 GB of space for my current project

On 3/28/2020 at 11:52 PM, borate said:

Rechecked this, and it does not happen in this version here.

After deleting the default folder on the C drive, assigning cache to D:\VP_cache restarting VP writes those files to that folder.  The default folder is not recreated.

When starting VP and immediately Clearing Unused Cache Files prior to loading any clips, the D:\ drive folder is emptied.

I already have the latest version and reinstalled it from scratch using Revo. And no, the sound cache folder keeps re-appearing at the same location.

Plus when I reloaded the project the sound for some clips would not simply load until I restart the project 2-3 times (guess that's the disk space issue).

It's a shame that something that used to work is so broken now.

Thanks for assistance, I I'll simply cancel my subscription and go with something more reliable.

2 hours ago, Nationalsolo said:

Hi

That seems very odd.

When you open VP and go to Options/Disk  what is entered in the Cache Folder box? 

Nat

ATM it is the value in the 3rd screenshot.

But the cache still goes to the default location at C:\Users\(Myusername)\AppData\Local\Temp

VideoPadSoundCache folder keeps reappearing at that location after every launch.

Screenshot

2 hours ago, Nationalsolo said:

I often use a USB hard drive to store the cache files for a big project (Drive E) This has worked with no problem. Under the Options tab click the Disk tab and then down to the Cache Folder box. Browse to your selected drive  and designated folder on that drive. Click OK and all loaded clips/files will go to the folder VP generated folder VideoPadCache  in the folder you created on the drive you chose to use.

Thanks for the reply, but I assume you did not check the screens that I have attached. That IS the problem. My cache location is specified (I pick the folder using "Browse..." button, drive D which has a lot of free space) but even after 100 restarts cache files still go to the default location (drive C which is short on diskspace).

Hello,

I am having an issue with VideoPad for over half a year now and thinking about dropping my subscription.

I eventually lost faith that NCH will ever fix this.

Problem 1.

Apparently overriding cache location does not work, not even in version 8.20.

I have a small SSD (117 GB) and a fairly large HDD (912 GB).

However, despite the fact that I specify cache location on D drive, cache gets still dumped on C drive clogging it as a result.

The files are partially saved to the location on D drive, but majority still goes somewhere to C.

Any chance that NCH is ever fixing this? Reinstalling VideoPad with Revo (complete wipeout) did not fix the issue.

Problem 2.

The cache won't clean automatically when I quit VideoPad and I still have to manually remove it from the default location.

 VideoPad off (after I manually clean the cache)

VideoPad on with a project

My settings

Hello,

I am now on 7.39. Older versions clearly had an opportunity to detect frame rate of the original input file.

How can the same be done within current version?

Thanks in advance!

Hello,

My VideoPad version is 6.30, been using VideoPad for more than 2 years without any problems.

Today I encountered something weird.

I have a clip created with VideoPad previously, which is now added to a different project.

However, when I re-export the same clip (without even changing it, audio "same as input", video is lossless), the resulting sound appears to be muffled, like "underwater". The file itself is 2-3 mbs smaller (167 mb total). I also tried to pick "High Quality" (both for video and audio), but result was pretty much the same.

I have tried deleting and reimporting AAC codec used by VP, but to no avail.

Also, I cannot test if the issue has been fixed for newer version as trial version does not let me export the clip. And I simply cannot afford to buy new version every year (especially, if it's a bug).

Anyone experienced something similar? Is there a fix for that?