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So for quite some time I've been using VideoPad, I love it for its easy to use features to create a video compared to another program which I don't use much. I'm still using an older version of VideoPad which has worked well for me (4.00). On my old laptop, it ran fairly well with only getting slow downs and "building preview" when projects got pretty big. When I my laptop fried this year I decided to get a new PC, something more powerful. When I reinstalled my 4.00 copy of VideoPad, I opened up a project I had been working on for a few months and I noticed that it ran slow. I was getting "building preview" and freezing issues far more often than I did on the laptop and I noticed it was causing the CPU temps to rise quite high. I tried Adobe Premiere and it ran great, better than before without issue so I figured its likely the program itself. Again I'm still using 4.00 but I've never had a problem before. PC specs: Win 10 x64 Ryzen 5 3600 Geforeforce GTX 1660 super 16GB ram X570 a-pro motherboard

Hi, I used videopad v5.32 on a subpar pc for about a year. I've now upgraded to a better machine (i7 7700, 16gb RAM, GTX 1050, SSD) specifically to edit video, but am running into the same issues: * After only some minor effects or adding a couple of clips, It's impossible to watch a live preview on the tool due to "Building Preview" message. * In heavier projects, after exporting the video it'll freeze on some parts with audio still going and then catch up. I like the tool, but I need the experience to be smoother. The question is, should I pay to upgrade to the latest version assuming these issues are solved? Should I go a different way? Any way to test it beforehand? Thanks!

This morning a video I had made with Screenflick recording software just had uploaded to Quicktime player, so I got onto VideoPad, which is my editing software, and imported the video into the media bin. After that I dragged it into the Sequence 1 section with the audio and video tracks, and then started waiting for it to process. A green line showed up and moved so I went to the couch and started reading. A while later I went back to VideoPad and saw that there was no green bar, so I assumed (since this is my second video edited with VideoPad and the first one didn't work out too well), that it had just finished processing and that was all. So I started previewing the video, but this message in a blue box appeared in the bottom left of the preview window: "Building Preview... Please wait." I tried exiting the preview mode and just watched from the sequence window. Same thing happened. So I quit video pad and reopened it, then when it asked if I wanted to open the autosaved file I clicked "yes." And it started processing again. This time, I watched the green bar the entire time it processed. A little more than halfway through the process, the green bar stopped abruptly and 5 seconds later disappeared. I tried again. Same outcome. I tried opening a copy of that file. Same outcome. I tried downloading from Quicktime to video pad instead of downloading from VideoPad. Same outcome. And I also tried downloading a different video. The same thing happened again!! I really need help with this because I just saved up for an entire month to buy this software, and if it was for nothing then that would really suck. Please help, -Poly