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seems it's "system audio" capture method that was causing the audio/video sync issue, capturing via the hardware realtek stereo mixer input using another instance of FFMPEG.EXE to capture it remained in sync but using the alternate audio capture of "system audio" which I presume captures the audio using the main executable does not appear to retain sync with FFMPEG.EXE captured video. I await future versions to see what improves.

Trying to debug this... I'm using the portable build under Win10 latest feature set and properly patched. The program fails to record Audio from the microphone Array in the laptop, no idea if it's the API or the sample depth and rate it's balking at as there are no settings for Audio capture for each device within the program so one assumes it uses the record settings from Sounds applet. It also drops mp4 video files into the programs folder and keeps them there if the entire creation reconstruction of the video track and sound track does not succeed which creates a mess the end user has to clean up.. Also on every launch it goes through a lengthy initialization process of bench marking the various h264 and h265 hardware acceleration options available before handing the user interface back to the end user... If such a process IS really required the results should be stored in Settings.ini and it never repeated again unless the settings.ini is deleted OR it is moved to different hardware, since it is sort of portable even if the license is not. had a bit more success with capturing to MKV but the sound track was seconds delayed from the video on screen activity and had to give it permission to write to the Videos folder due to controlled folder access controls which is not an issue. But the not tidying up on audio capture failure or merge capture failure and the retesting of hardware acceleration on every launch and audio being seconds out of sync with the video are issues that need to be addressed, other FFMPEG capture GUI's don't seem to have these issues and also offer simultaneous webcam picture in picture and simultaneous system sounds and microphone capture. good try but really needs more work before it's a release candidate let alone a stable commercial release IMHO.

Any reason you built this as a 64bit main executable and 32bit FFMPEG.EXE where it's FFMPEG.EXE screen capture routines you use? Have you tried building it 32bit and it consumed greater than 32bit user process limit of 2GB? Or was the decision an arbitrary one for no particular reason? Also Why oh Why default to dumping captured VIDEO files onto the users Desktop instead of defaulting to somewhere normal like the Users Videos folder? would not force the end user to have to alter the default settings to avoid polluting their desktop with data files!

the system requirements on page https://vovsoft.com/software/speech-to-text-converter/ specifically state "(32-bit and 64-bit)" versions of windows but the portable build has a 64bit LGPLv3 licensed FFMPEG.EXE that cannot possibly execute under 32bit windows 7 to 10. The supplied Setup.exe has exactly the same problem a 64bit FFMPEG.EXE I presume that is used to convert varied input file formats to one standardized format for processing. Either way unless you replace that 64bit executable with a 32bit build of similar generation the program will not work as described under 32bit editions of windows, it will crash on importing sound files or just fail to import them if the error is trapped in the software. Note the software requires signing up to external platforms to use their speech to text engines and AI engines not many options exist without the use of external platforms Vosk and which requires .NET 4.8 to run and Microsofts Speech platform and it defaulted to dumping recorded wav files on my DESKTOP! Can't they use the %TEMP% variable and drop a subfolder in there Desktop is not a dumping ground for temporary recording files!

I have tried others, but this is the best.

A question how does one set the Custom output dimensions for the video? I see nothing in settings.ini or the user interface to dial in the required dimensions? Is it just the size of the largest combination of image dimensions like if one is portrait it takes the height of the biggest portrait and the width of the largest landscape image? That's as far as my imagination goes into working out how custom dimension could work if there is no GUI to specify the dimensions.

it's just a simple slideshow maker why only 64bit? 32bit windows has far more complex slideshow/non-linear video editing software for multiple decades why bother with a wasteful 64bit executable. ALL video files are 8 bit encoded datastreams meaning the handling of 8bit data in 64bits doublelong per 8bit byte allocation is many times less efficient as 32bit which was bad enough. Ahhhh the executable for the program IS 32bit but you are using your latest LGPLv3 build of FFMPEG.EXE compiled as a 64bit build for some obscure reason... so all we need to do is swap out the 64bit FFMPEG.EXE for one of your 32bit builds of your FFMPEG.EXE and it won't make the slightest bit of difference that the last 32bit build is slightly older version as you are just making a video optionally with audio file which is more than doable even with ancient builds of FFMPEG.EXE
Can I make another suggestion? Allow the frame duration to vary on a per frame basis so one can have one photo displayed for say 10.25 seconds and another for 5.12 and another for 7 seconds rather than all frames set to one single duration rate?

my suggestion for this program is an option to show what page the erroneous link is on. you have an external link on your site to a review that returns a 403 forbidden error, no doubt they changed their site since you linked to the site ... it would be useful to either show it in the display the hosting page of the link or optionally show i in the entries context menu. URL in question https://www.capterra.com/p/230952/SEO-Checker/reviews/3060165/

It does not work on Windows 7, I will not be able to test it

Any reason why this is only available as a 64bit executable? You expecting to process more than 2GBytes of keywords in any given session?