VideoPad Video Editor Video Editing Software Anyone Can Use Designed to be intuitive to use, VideoPad is fully featured video editing program for creating professional looking videos in minutes. Making movies has never been easier. P a g e | 2 Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 6 How to Use VideoPad ................................................................................................................................... 7 Saving your project to an output format .................................................................................................... 16 Output Video to Disc ............................................................................................................................... 17 Output Video to a Computer .................................................................................................................. 18 Output Video to a Portable Device ......................................................................................................... 19 Output to Image Sequence ..................................................................................................................... 20 Output Options - Upload Video .............................................................................................................. 21 Output Video to Stereoscopic 3D ........................................................................................................... 22 Capturing Video .......................................................................................................................................... 24 Capturing from Camcorder ..................................................................................................................... 24 Capturing from another device ............................................................................................................... 24 Capturing overlay video .......................................................................................................................... 25 Select Position for New Clip ........................................................................................................................ 26 Inserting Blank Clips .................................................................................................................................... 26 Editing in an External Editor ........................................................................................................................ 27 Effects Tab ................................................................................................................................................... 28 Applying Effects ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Effects Without Options.......................................................................................................................... 28 Effects with Options ................................................................................................................................ 28 Brightness Effects .................................................................................................................................... 29 Smoothness ............................................................................................................................................. 29 Temperature ........................................................................................................................................... 29 Cropping Images ..................................................................................................................................... 29 Rotating Clips .......................................................................................................................................... 29 Zoom ....................................................................................................................................................... 29 Speed ...................................................................................................................................................... 30 Plugins ..................................................................................................................................................... 30 Transitions Tab ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Applying a Transition .............................................................................................................................. 31 Adjusting the Transition's Duration ........................................................................................................ 31 P a g e | 3 How to begin a movie with a fade-in ...................................................................................................... 31 Speed Change and Playing Video Backwards ............................................................................................. 32 Changing Playback Speed ....................................................................................................................... 32 Playing Video Backwards ........................................................................................................................ 32 Removing Changes .................................................................................................................................. 32 Video Stabilization ...................................................................................................................................... 33 Overlays and Credits ................................................................................................................................... 34 Adding Overlays ...................................................................................................................................... 34 Credits ..................................................................................................................................................... 35 Subtitles ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 Subtitles Dialog ....................................................................................................................................... 36 Importing and Exporting ......................................................................................................................... 36 Fixing Imported Subtitles Display Problems ........................................................................................... 36 Adding your own Subtitles ...................................................................................................................... 36 Hiding Subtitles ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Chroma Key Select ...................................................................................................................................... 37 Chroma Key ............................................................................................................................................. 37 Stereoscopic (3D) video features ................................................................................................................ 37 Bookmarks .................................................................................................................................................. 38 Working with Audio .................................................................................................................................... 40 The Audio Sequence ............................................................................................................................... 40 The Audio Palette .................................................................................................................................... 40 Audio Effects ........................................................................................................................................... 40 Fading ...................................................................................................................................................... 40 How to disconnect native audio from video ........................................................................................... 41 Recording Narrations .................................................................................................................................. 41 Preparing to Record ................................................................................................................................ 41 Recording a Narration ............................................................................................................................. 41 Re-recording a Narration ........................................................................................................................ 42 Sound Clips Overlap .................................................................................................................................... 42 Sound Effects .............................................................................................................................................