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[RhetoricalRuvim]

Hello. I am trying to edit a video for video production class and there are some issues with the file format. The class is using Apple machines, while I like to do the editing on an HP with Windows. I am using VideoPad to edit the video.

The video plays fine in VLC media player, iTunes, etc., but in QuickTime player and Real player most of the video is okay but the titles at the end look similar to this:


That was in playing an exported .mov file; we tried exporting the file to .mp4, and the problem still persists, with the MP4 file having the same issue like that.


Is this a proprietary thing? All this proprietary stuff is getting annoying.

One idea I got is to find a way to totally decompress the video, or even convert it to a bitmap sequence with a bitmap per frame, and then put it back together; I don't know how to do that, though.

Is there not a fix for this? I could probably still try manually drawing the titles using mspaint, but isn't there something that takes less labor that would be more universal, especially that the school I'm at has both Apple and IBM technology?

[Alexander]

It can likely be videopad's fault alone. I would personally put a grey background behind the text (if it is already not) to see if that replaces the artefacts behind the title. If this problem easily exists with your updated program, it is very possible someone else has run in to this problem as well and it would be wise to search the software's documentation or forums.

I would attempt to save it in another format (AVI or similar) and convert that through a separate program to .mp4 or .mov if no luck can be achieved.

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Good point about the color. What I've noticed, after experimenting around for a few hours, is that either black (what I had) or very dark colors don't seem to work very well for QuickTime player and Real player.

Saving as AVI and then converting to MOV didn't work, it only made it worse, because some of the colors got interlaced (? not sure which word to use), somehow.

I changed the background color to [forest green]ish and it works (this is from a test from my IBM-based computer; I haven't been to school yet to test it on a physical Apple machine). I could probably use Chroma Key from a video editor on Macintosh or something, to turn that into black, but green is fine too, so I think I'll leave it how it is.


But yeah, thanks for the help.