I have just gone to this forum with a question. On the way to starting this thread, I noticed my name displayed on several other threads, to an extent that I almost find embarassing. The advice I gave was based upon quite a few years using Video Editors of one kind or another. I have an all-time favourite, but hey, this is a 'NCH'-sponsored web-site and it will remain a matter between myself and the software distributor, which has chosen to pull the plug on support, just when I require a renewal of my activation-number following a computer-crash, and my need to install much of my software to hard-drives other than the default 'C:\', so it won't happen again in the future. So, an investment of NZ$400 or thereabouts disappears down-the-gurgler. 'Life's a bitch', as they say.
Yes, I've given 'VideoPad' a test-drive or two. Many of its features I like, since it is not weighed down with useless dead-wood' in the way of effects, transitions etc. In short, a quite professional-looking package seemingly designed with the semi-pro in mind, rather than those 'consumers' who only want to dazzle the rest of humanity with their superficial (eg shop-bought), brilliance.
Which, must make the next question seem odd: How are clips added to the timeline in such a way as to 'render' the right-way around, because, my first-only trial production ran backwards, last shot first? Now, I have no problem whatever with loading clips and assembling them into a coherent sequence, only that, after rendering, it runs backwards. (The trimmed individual clips run correctly in themselves, it's just that the order of sequence is wrong, with the left-most clip being the most recent one added, when in most editors, the sequence is presented the the opposite way around). I was working on a ten-minute module to slot into a much larger documentary project (68 DVD's of avi footage shot to-date). Now, I could always assemble the stuff elsewhere and place the 'render' on the 'VideoPad' timeline in preparation for the sound editing, but that sort-of defeats the purpose of using 'VideoPad' in the first-place.
Is someone please able to point out where I have gone wrong; as it's not nice feeling like the world's biggest idiot.
Ian Smith
Dunedin, N.Z.