Hello borate and Nationalsolo,
Well, between the file borate sent me with the altered resolution, working in a smaller segment*, making sure I zoom back out on the timeline after making a video edit before pushing play in the sequence preview, and <sheepish look> making sure everything is fully loaded into VP properly </sheepish look> things are working significantly better now...at least as far as the "editing the video" part. This last half hour has a lot of the identity-protected student in it, so I haven't gotten back to the subtitling yet.
I also went back to the first handful of videos I'd worked on late last year, to see what the difference was between then and now...and I'm ashamed to admit that some of the issues I probably could have figured out if I'd done that first but...n00b here didn't think of that. The first few months of videos were all roughly the same length (2-ish hours) and a shite-tonne of subtitles all the way through...but it was primarily one person speaking during that whole time. Also, originally, we were using one of the co-teacher's free, standard Zoom account; I assume those file download defaults are different than if you have a paid account, which we switched to in January.
Breaking up the video into smaller chunks (and reassembling at the back end) is extra steps it would be nice to not have to take -and breaking up the .SRT file we get from Otter will be a pain in the butt- but at this point I'd rather that than fighting the urge to throw my computer into a wall.
My only objection to 10.26-64 is that sometimes when I hold down the "previous frame" or "next frame" button (if I'm trying to skip a handful of frames) I will suddenly find myself having jumped clips (and yes...I'm sure I'm on the right button because it only happens occassionally and I don't use the "clip edge" buttons), but I'm just going to train myself to use the arrow keys on the keyboard for that from now on. 😁
I still need to look into changing the resolution settings for the Zoom recordings, but the next class isn't for a week and I really want to get this video in the can.
I'll swing back by and let you know how subtitling goes when I get back into that for this half hour segment; hopefully it will do smoothly. I'm sure y'all will be glad to be rid of me after that.
Thank you again for all the help, especially the info on the weird resolution and suggesting changing that -I definitely never would have figured that out on my own- and the pointer on knowing when VP is actually ready to start working (the purple and green bars)...and for your patience with me.
Nicole
* I copied the original Zoom .mp4, cropped it down to the last half hour that I still need to work on, and have been working on that independent of the original 2 hour project file.
