loose media when converting

kermit2004

when I try to save my video file I loose most of my stills. In the faqs it says that I need to lower the resolution of my jpgs and then re-include them... Well I got some 500 files included in this project so reducing the resolution and re-include is not really an option (basically I would need to redo the whole project and it took me a very long time to create it in the first place) - is there any other possibility to have the video running with all media files included and showing?

Thanks

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The version 3.xx program certainly loses the last frame of a sequence if it is a still frame (bug bug bug :angry: ) but I haven't found it loses any more even when there are several hundred and all 10 - 12 megs.

What format are you trying to output?

Nat

kermit2004

Nationalsolo wrote:

Hi

What format are you trying to output?

Nat

I tried basically everything. Started out with avi - mpg4 - mov - wma - flv - etc. etc. I just hoped that one of the formats would work. Tried different settings and resolutions same problem.

Some of these run for longer before they start to make problems, other sooner - but none (!) will have the full video (ok, there was one, which I didn't watch until the end, because each picture was basically just a sum of artefacts - so even if this would have run to the end you couldn't use it)

The problem is the video runs until a certain point , the soundtrack continues but the pictures / videos are not shown anymore, but the last picture stands as a still until the end of the video (sometimes after a minute or so the video continues for two or three pics and then again the pic just freezes....

kermit2004

every try I do ends with the same problem - if the programm doesn't crash while rendering.

By the way I have Version 2.30 - although I just downloaded it a couple of days ago...

Well I guess this is it for me with videopad - doesn't help if I can't convert my projects into videos (a real shame I worked for so many hours on this project and all for nothing.....)

So if anybody has a solution or a work around I'd be more than happy....

borate

kermit2004 wrote:

By the way I have Version 2.30 - although I just downloaded it a couple of days ago...

Video editing is resource intensive. Failures like the one you mention can be caused by limited RAM or disc space, and video adapter limitations.

kermit2004

borate wrote:

Video editing is resource intensive. Failures like the one you mention can be caused by limited RAM or disc space, and video adapter limitations.

I know, that's why I have a new computer set up for Audio and Video work a lot of RAM a lot of Disc space and two fast CPUs - so resources is not the problem

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I assume your project plays OK when you preview your sequence line.

I don't think the number of files is causing the problem. I am currently working on a 45 minute project that has (so far) 310 video clips and numerous images and which has generated 4386 files (1.09 Gb) in the cache folder! I am using version 2.41 and it is working correctly and I have had no problems. (I fell asleep using version 3.12 when I tried it with this. <_< and didn't get far enough to see if it would crash!)

What format are your video clips?

What format are your images...(TIFF....jpg.....bmp...etc.)

What size are they... pixel x pixel and Kb?........And are they all the same?

I usually use raw images taken with my video camera which are jpgs 1280 x 720 pixels and each of 11 Mb. As these are the same frame size as any video I shoot I can just add them into the sequence where I want. (Also snapshots from the actual footage as well as stabilized avi clips in places.) Never had a problem rendering them.

There may be a problem with your image type but offhand I can't see why, if it plays OK in the VP preview you can't render it to an avi file.

Nat

kermit2004

Hey Nat,

the stills are all jpgs - but taken with different cameras and so do have different solution. The video parts are mostly mov.

It plays in the preview just fine.

Also it doesn't always freezes at the same point / same image but on totally different places, no matter wether a high resolution or low resolution pic...

I am kind of hesitant to install another version of videopad - this video I created for my wife's birthday and I would have love to have it rendered to show her in a good resolution - but the way it is now I could at least show her the preview image....

kermit2004

Ok - just tried it with version 2.41 - the same problem .... plus the images have a lot of artefacts (although I used the same settings as I did with version 2.3 where you don't have any artefacts at all)....

VERY FRUSTRATING

Anybody knows a video editor with which I can actually create a video? This one obviously is not working