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I've seen this done with text overlays but I can't figure out images.

I have a transparent image I want to overlay on the video, but overlaying it causes it to be stretched to fill the screen and positioned in the middle. Trouble is, adding any effect (scale, position, movement, etc) causes the image to become 100% opaque: https://imgur.com/a/NP487P0 At first I thought the trick was to add the "Transparency" effect last in the chain, but that affects the parts that weren't transparent in the original (in this instance the dark lines are opaque to give a clear outline - but this 'fix' causes the lines to be as transparent as the coloured parts). I can't find any way to avoid this. Is this a bug or is there a better way to do this? Sorry for spamming the forum so much, I still have so much to learn about editing and how to use VideoPad.

Hi Do many people use .gif images in their projects? VP does not handle this type of file correctly as it interprets it as a video clip of a single frame. Consequently you cannot extend the duration and this makes it virtually useless. Unfortunately .gif images can be created with a transparent background making them very useful for logos and "object" animation where movement over a background is needed. In VP, although the background comes up transparent, you can't do anything with them since as I said, they come up as a single, unalterable frame clip and not an image which is a great pity. Why not, you may say, convert them to ,jpg format. Well in short, the transparency would be lost which is one of the main points of usefulness with gifs. It also means you have to use a green screen to take out the now, white or black background and the borders are then never very good. Transparent background png images don't (at least here) show up correctly on my PC but DO load to VP. Anyway, the Draw program I use to generate .gifs won't give a transparency to pngs although it will export them. Animated gif files (which I use a lot in illustrated talks) DO play in VP but as they are constructed with single images, timed individually and several similar images placed one after another often being used to create suitable pauses in the animation, they again, don't play properly in VP as each image is still a single frame of around 0.1 second. You can convert then to .avi but, again the conversion does not create pauses in the action properly where a single gif has had its duration set in the creator program. i.e. it has been given a duration of, say 2 seconds but VP makes THAT image 0.1 second. If you have worked with .gif files you will know what I mean. Any opinions out there? Nat

Hi NCH Is their a bug in videos exported as .gif ?? Just noticed while checking out a forum thread that although individual frames of an animation exported as a .gif play OK and so produce the animated movement required, they do not delete the previous frame of the sequence as they should. Each frame is therefore retained. As any background transparency is also retained, an object set up to move across the screen leaves a trail. This does not happen in VP only in the exported clip . ...... e.g. This is a screenshot of an exported .gif clip. A football with a transparent background is animated to bounce off the top of the screen... In VP this played OK. (This is the exported clip played using Irfanview) Initially I thought this might be a fault of the player. The fault however seems to be in the VP rendering process and not the subsequent viewer used as when the exported clip was reloaded back into VP the trails were still present....... Can this be fxed??? i.e. During export of .gif clips previous frames are deleted before the next is frame is rendered. Nat

I have a lot of VideoPad projects that I use as templates for my videos, such as intros and YouTube thumbnails, but version 4.58 has altered them significantly, and here's why: 1. Shadows are less visible. I have a video effect template that consists of 3 shadow effects, and each one of them is set to 1.00 in opacity, and 20.00 in blurriness. In 4.48 and older, the end result looked great because you could lay multiple shadows on top of each other, while in 4.58, trying to do this only seems to make it larger. In comparison, using the video effects with the same exact properties makes the shadow look like the following (320x180): 2. The transparency effect is way too effective. In 4.48, setting the transparency video effect at 50% looked promising enough, but in 4.58, anything below 50% pretty much looks like some sort of void. Using the background color in the picture above, this is how it looks like when setting to 50%: Am I gonna have to start changing versions back and forth to get my desired results? Because I know 4.58 has done great changes and fixes to the software since 4.48, but I hope these 2 problems are just temporary; I'm not satisfied with the way my VideoPad projects were altered. Also yes, I've actually had to change versions just to take these pictures.

"Default" transparency effects in 3.81 show up in effects and normal preview, and on the thumbnail, but not on the sequence after APPLY is clicked. Same for a SAVED "custom" transparency. However, if a transparency effect is combined with certain other effects, it does display in the sequence.

Hi there, I am having difficulty adding watermarks to my video correctly. I have a .png file that I would like to use with a transparent background. However, I add the watermark to the video, the background of the file appears to be black instead of transparent. Am I doing something incorrectly, or is this a bug with this version of the software? I'm using v2.12 Thanks in advance. (Alternatively, is there an easier way to add white text with a black outline to a video with this version of the software?)