Dallan

Thanks for this! A few questions: 1. For step 1, you added keyframes to animate the zooming into the centre? 2. Near the end when you say "once through the timewarp (zoom)...: do you mean once the zoom effect has stopped zooming in further and so we would be looking at a more or less still image? 2. Where did you get that star field image? It looks awesome. 3. Are there copyright issues if using the NCH audio clips?

Got it. Thanks. It would be nice of it included the % symbol for clarity. I.e., instead of "Horizontal:" add "Horizontal (%):

I understand how a position effect should work in theory, but I am wondering how the actual numbers (horizontal and vertical) work. For example, if I drop a square image into a scene, when I add the Position Effect if I set the horizontal to, say, +30 and the vertical to the same, the actual distance the image moves horizontally is not the same as vertically. I would expect it to move the same distance (pixels).

I am wondering if it is possible or if there are any suggestions to make something look like it is travelling in hyperspace, like you see in StarWars.

Is there a place to get info on future releases and the bug fixes?

Thanks. I understand the work-around. I guess this bug would be addressed in a future release?

Ok. Here is the project file. Note that for the audio I did two things: I trimmed some of it, and I also changed the speed of it. Just out of curiosity I tried to import the same audio file into a project without modifying the audio, and the keyframe placement and creation worked FINE. Then I sped up the audio with the Speed Change audio effect, and guess what? After applying the speed change, I tried the keyframes and now they were all offset. So I think there is a bug in relation to the Speed Change audio effect.

In the video I posted, at 55s when I click, the keyframe is not created at the point of the hand cursor in the clip preview, but to the right of it. I installed the newer version and you provided and the same happens. Sometimes they keyframe is created further to the right than others.

Ok. I see one confusion I had. For the cursor position in the clip preview, that cursor time stamp position is relative to the clip's relative starting point rather than the absolute starting point of 0s in the audio track. The 0s point in the clip preview is not 0s in the audio track. For the second point: using the clip preview, I am able to now create and move keyframes, but with problems. When I click to add a keyframe, the keyframe is created always with a right offset from my cursor, never where I actually click. Here is a video.

When I double click the audio track the clip preview shows the fade-out curve, along with the keyframes. When I move the mouse over the key frames it shows the position and gain, but does not let me drag or insert new keyframes. Here is a screenshot of the fade-out curve. On the audiotrack the fade-out curve drops before 3s, but in the clip preview the fade-out starts (correctly) around 3.5 seconds until the end of the clip. See here: Screenshot. There seems to be discrepancy between the clip preview fade-out curve and the one in the audio track.

After applying, for example, a fade-out effect, I can hear that the audio changes and fades as I intended. So it would seem the effect isn't being cancelled, as the audio is affected. But when I click the FX button afterwards on the audio clip the list of effects is still empty. But as you said, fade-out is a transition and so shouldn't show up. I tried an echo effect and it did show up in the list of effects. It is strange that the fade-out is not considered an effect though it shows up in the list of effects (the same place as echo) to choose from. But since the fade-out transition doesn't show-up in the effects list to modify after the fact, it seems I am unable to modify it by dragging keyframes etc...so if I want to change, say, where it starts to fade out. Would I have to remove the fade-out and start again? If so, it would be nice if all the choices under effects would be registered as such so as to more easily change them afterwards. Even stranger, when I select "From the end of the clip to the cursor position," it correctly fades from the cursor to the end of the clip when I listen to it. When I check the clip preview for the audio it shows the superimposed volume level slant down at the correct position (dark blue line like in your screenshot). But the audio curve which gets superimposed on top of the audio track itself shows the drop somewhere in the middle of the audio wave instead of at the end where the sound actually fades out. Is this correct?

v 8.84 When I apply audio effects they work, but when I click the FX button afterwards the list of audio effects is empty, as if there are no audio effects even though there are.This is in contradiction to the video effects which are listed under FX and can be edited after the initial creation. Audio effects get applied but I can't edit them afterwards. Furthermore, when using the fade-out effect the volume level curve which shows the drop off overtop the audio wave is not correct. It shows the fade-out (volume drop) in the middle of the clip, but the actual sound fade out as I intended is near the end. Are these bugs?

Thanks for the response. I'm glad I can control the time stamp with more precision than dragging, though your solution wasn't apparent from the GUI. It would be nice if the precision control was more apparent. As a future update, possibly right clicking on the keyframe could allow the time stamp to be set, or even clicking the keyframe could bring up a number input option on the GUI somewhere. Thanks

Hi, I am using Videopad 8.84. I have added a position effect and set a keyframe, and am trying to reposition the keyframe. I found this link which says you can (http://help.nchsoftware.com/help/en/videopad/win/effects_animating.html) which says: To move a keyframe, do one of the following: Click on a keyframe and drag it. If multiple keyframes are selected, they will move together. Move the current timeline position over the keyframe and adjust the value of the parameter using its check-box, slider, or numerical input control. The first option is easy enough, but I would like to be able to type the actual time of the keyframe, to have more precision than dragging. The second option suggests you can, but when I move the timeline position over they keyframe nothing seems to come up for this. I wish I could add a screenshot? In either case, it would make sense if I could just right click the keyframe and set its time stamp that way. What am I missing?