OldDude Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 I've been using Video Pad Professional for a few years with absolutely no problems. (Thanks VPP!) I was using it to create trailers for video games and all of the clips used were always the same resolution and frame rate (60fps) so everything was easy to edit, export, etc, etc. But now I'm embarking on a new personal project (short cinematic movies) and I'm confused how my work flow will be handled in VP. The final exported video will always be at 1080/24fps (constant) but I will have a variety of clips that were recorded @ 24,30,60,120fps. Anything higher than 24fps will be treated as slow motion clips obviously. I haven't started creating test projects yet, because I want to understand from the start what I need to be doing. Hoping to eliminate alot of guess work. lol... Will it be business as usual, just importing all of my video and audio clips and edit/arrange as before and just export at 24fps? My brain tells me I probably need to tell the editor to edit/display/preview at 24fps but I don't see anything obvious where to set that? Any advice, help, is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted May 31, 2021 Share Posted May 31, 2021 There's no option to set preview fps. Suggest stringing together a brief project of varied clip to test export at 24fps. Drop back again if the result isn't what's expected and mention the VP version being used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldDude Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 What about the timing, positioning of separate audio tracks for music, sound fx? For example: If I have a 10 second audio track and a 10 second video clip @ 24fps, with the editor locked at 30fps, wouldn't the editor show the video clip ending before the audio track? Another question would be about importing 24 vs 120fps clips. Ultimately when exporting at 24fps, I would not want the 120fps clip to skip frames to keep up with 24fps, I would still want every frame played because it's slow motion. I hope that makes sense. I will get a test project up and running in the next 2 days, but I still want to make sure this is even doable with VP before I dive in too deep. Thanks for the reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 The editor is not 'locked' and will input each clip fully, irrespective of frame rate. If the 120 clip is ten-seconds long that's what will be loaded. No slowing unless you so specify with a right-click | Change Clip Speed. The project will export at your chosen frame rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldDude Posted June 1, 2021 Author Share Posted June 1, 2021 Thx for the reply, video looked fine. So..........with that in mind.... Technically the editor is handling things in a time based movement environment, so it doesn't matter what the incoming video clip(s) fps are created at. So for example if I add two video clips, both 5 seconds long, 1 at 24fps, the other at 48fps, when added to the editor they both will take up 5 seconds on the timeline. But if I wanted the 2nd clip to be slow motion and take advantage of the extra frames recorded I would slow the clip play back by 50% resulting in clip 2 now taking up 10 seconds on the timeline. Is that the line of thinking I should be taking when working with VP with multiple clips in various frame rates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 If a ten-second recording, made at 120fps plays in slo-mo on a video player, then it will do the same in Videopad, as in the example linked earlier. If slowed by 50%, it's length will double. Give it a test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldDude Posted June 2, 2021 Author Share Posted June 2, 2021 Fwiw... When I import 24fps files they play faster in the editor. In a future update you should consider adding the ability to set a fps for the timeline. As it stands now, this makes it very hard to edit large projects reliably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borate Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 You can file a suggestion by clicking the chevron at the top-right of the VP window. Never have seen a speed change on a 24fps (or other frame-rate) file reported here. Many projects contain mixed-rate clips. When loaded, they preview with no speed changes - playing just as they do in WMP and other viewers. Please share the file or files that do this so someone can confirm. It's a simple process... Upload the file/s to a free server, such as Google Drive or MS OneDrive, get a shared (public) link, copy the link and paste it here or to me in a Private Message via the mail envelope in the top-right corner of this forum. When using Google Drive, if necessary change "restricted" to "anyone with link can view." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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