OK, I thank you for your time borate. I do not know if you are an NCH boffin or a very talented and keen public contributor, but thanks either way. Sorry for the long detailed reportage here, but I am not at all i-techy, I can only describe it as an ordinary old school engineer would.
Trying the program overwrite you suggested today (28/1/22 am), I think it was exactly the same version.
Trial 1; A multi clip project of 2min 55 secs video time took about 15 mins to cache-in. If you then add a transition or something it does a re-cache all over again, during which time you cannot be doing any other edits to the project because the sequence preview freezes, as does the cursor, whilst the CPU is busy.
Trial 2; A single clip project of 13min 11 sec was then tried in a new session. It took 22 mins to cache-in. Then was glitchy to play with audio out of sync in preview. If you then split the track to discard a section say, then do a cross fade to link the remaining clips, then it re-caches from zero all over again. I am sure it would do similarly if I then wished to amplify the audio, or crop the image, or adjust it in any other way. Each little tweak would entail a long wait before you can do the next step.
I never saw a purple band, it was blue from the start, then gradually turned to the underlying black over a yawningly long time, each and every time.
Neither of these cache-in and (re-cache) times are workable if any realistic productivity is to be accomplished.
I did try the clear cache thing you articulated to another correspondent, but I hardly know how to do that without being worried about clearing out something important, and I have never had to do that before in 4 years of regular successful Videopad use (v 6.0) over the past four years. It was just slow because of my antiquated hardware of that time.
Is this a 64 bit version? Would that make much of a difference?
My computer is new, is an i7 11800H 11 gen CPU, 64 bit, 16 meg ram, 6meg Nvidia 3060, 1Tb SDD, I am sure it is an absolute hot diggity dog machine.
I know the 13min 11sec clip is good because I actually used and published it in a Youtube video 4 years ago, edited and made on Videopad v6.0, on my old 2010 Packard Bell Pentium T4400 dual core 4 meg ram no graphics card machine, which was just slow to finalize, but OK in the load up.
I tried it again after a re-start of the machine, in case that was required, again trial 2 repeated was as begrudgingly slow.
I do so hope that you or the NCH people can give me some hope that things may soon come to be resolved. I am spending so much time just in this query/trial/no-progress state that I am not being at all productive – neither on the editing, nor in other realms of life due to the huge cerebral distraction this constitutes.
Kind Regards.
