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I am new to video editing and would greatly appreciate it if someone could advise me regarding "Device Settings", "Encoder Settings" and "Property" Settings for video capture please. I am using a video capture device with the red, yellow and white RCA plugs (plus S Video) with a USB connector for the PC. My PC is 3.6Ghz, 16 GB of RAM, Windows 10. I have the latest version of Videopad and plenty of spare disk space. I would like to capture video from the following devices: Sony Digital Camera/Recorder (Mini DV Cassette tapes); Sony Handycam Camera/Recorder Hi8; and a standard VHS player. In the "Record"-> "Record Video" under the "Devices" window I have selected "USB 2861 Device" (there is no other choice); "Line (Master AV Cap)" - I assume this is my capture card - the only other choice is a mic I have connected; and "640x480 [4:3] 29.97fps" which is top of the list and therefore I assume it is the default. Under the "Device Settings" -> "Properties" ->"Video Decoder" tab the only change I have made is to select "PAL_B" instead of "NTSC-M" which is what it was when I first opened Videopad. I have NOT checked the "VCR Input" box. I have not made any changes to the default settings under the "Video Proc Amp" or "Video Image" tabs. As I am using the "640x480 [4:3] 29.97fps" setting (default???) should I check the "Video Input" box in the "Video Decoder" tab when I use the VHS player AND the cameras or should it only be checked when using the VHS player? Or should I not check it at all? Also, in the "Video Image" tab should I change "Pic Size" from "Default" to "640x480" to match it to the "640x480 [4:3] 29.97fps" setting? On burning my first effort to DVD (burnt at 4:3) which I took from video captured on my Sony Digital Camera/Recorder (Mini DV Cassette tape) reproduction was reasonably good but there were times with fast moving subjects when their image momentarily "ghosted". When the recording was taken (some 20 years ago) the camera was set to "Very Fine Picture Quality" in order to capture fast moving people and objects. For capturing the images I had Videopad set to "640x480 [4:3] 29.97fps" and "PAL_B" - no other changes were made to the default settings. Is anyone able to suggest how I might obtain the best quality capture and DVD reproduction through my cameras and VCR please? Thank you.

I need help in removing the black background in an image. thanks

How do I place an image on a certain location of the screen? In VideoPad Video Editor, I uploaded a large image into my video. This image took up the whole screen, but I wanted to shrink it to about 3/4 size and to place it middle-right of the screen. Had trouble finding out how to do both. So unfortunately it was stuck being big and taking up the center of the screen. Any help? Thanks!

I loaded a video, and an image. Added both to different channels in the timeline. Shrunk (resize tool) and positioned (same tool) the image. First bug- how do I consistently get the preview window to show the image overlayed above the video. Often the preview only shows one or the other. This is very inconsistent. Feature request - when using the Size and position tool show all channels - I need to see the video to know where to position the image and the best size. Second bug - when I export to a video file, the image is much bigger than in the preview. This is a critical bug. If you know of a work around, please tell me.

i've viewed many youtube videos regarding 'how to greenscreen' tutorials and they all have their different approaches. my problem is i am stuck at editing the background image. i've tried the different techniques in the 'how to' videos but for some reason i cannot extend the image used to the length of the video used. i click on image and try to scroll it across but it will not move. i've tried unattaching audio track from video, to see if that will work, tried different image formats/sizes to see if it was the image used. i think i am missing a step (or two) where these videos assume the viewer already knows what to do, so they do not add it, or something, i am stuck. any thoughts? -alx

I have a borderless graphic in my video which I'm scaling from 60% to 90% in 3 seconds. No matter if it's in preview or play mode, Videopad is placing a thin border around the image the whole time, which I don't want. How can I eliminate/delete this border? Videopad places the border around different versions of the same graphic -- jpg, gif and png. I'd attach an mp4 of this, but can't see how to do that in this forum. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Alright so, i want to make a small .gif where space goes through my eyes (moving) like this: IMG, the problem is that i have no clue how to move my space image, can anyone help? Thanks in advance -Dat edit: by moving i mean like going from the left to the right

I am trying to add a logo to my video and I follow the instructions. However, when editing the video effects (Horizontal / Vertical offset, Scale), the image flips vertically. This is undesired. I deal with this by flipping the image in Paint before importing it to VideoPad (so that VideoPad flips it back to the original). However, I find it weird that the software flips the image in the first place. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Any suggestions are welcome EDIT: When exporting, the logo's that I use are stretched and therefore unusable. Any help would be appreciated!

Just paid for the program, and suddenly when I select more than file to be added to the sequence/project, it loads my pics in reverse order than in my folder. Didn't do this in the trial/demo version. Frustrating since my project contains frame by frame images. Can anyone explain how to fix this please??? Gah.

Debut will record about 10 minutes into a video online event I'm watching and then it freezes a picture and stops recording what is happening. Audio is fine but without the video is pretty much of no use. Any suggestions on this. This has happened on two different computers. I had it happen on my favorite computer so I uninstalled it and put Debut on my other computer and it worked fine for a while and has now started doing the same thing. Anyone with suggestions is apprecited.

Hello. I am not very experienced in VP. I had previously used the VP at home. Now again I want to change one video: I want to apply a flower image in the lower right corner. (so I put the image of the flower on top on the additional videotrack) But around the flower(during playing) remains rectangular frame, inherited from the processing of the image(outside of VP). Is there any way to remove that frame, leaving only the image of the flower ? Moreover, I would like to get rid of the original background of the image, but I do not know how...

When I create a video which has just a picture as its image rather than an actual video clip, when I upload it to YouTube, the image doesn't show, the screen is just black, however the audio plays fine. My last successful 'picture video' was January 2013. I tried to upload one in August 2013, and the screen was black (the image shows for a split-second at the start). I hoped it was a one-off, but I did another one today and uploaded it, and it's happened again. Googling shows someone with the same problem in May 2013, so it would seem something has changed with VideoPad or YouTube between January 2013 and May 2013, and now we have this bug. I've tried .avi, .wav and .asf, tried a different frame rate and a different resolution, no difference. The video is fine with other video editors. This is definitely a VideoPad problem.