• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @me_again Hi Andy What does MediaInfo say the encoding format used in the original MOV files is? Shutter Encoder was the first one I tried to convert the Alpha channel files - there appears to be no setting for the Alpha channel encoding to
• Video Pro X

  One answer, on 4/15/2026

  [Closed] composite mode is completely stuck on Alpha
  Not sure what to do here. It's stuck on Alpha. It was working last week. Now it's not. I've reset. Tried the parent/child composition. Reset the window arrangement. Run as admin. checked the text cursor. No luck. Using Vegas Pro 22. Windows 11.
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @me_again Hi Andy . . . . QT + Any suggestions? . . . . Easiest route is to convert the MOV files with Handbrake, to standard h.264/AAC encoding. I have batch converted all my 'normal' MOV files. For the MOV files I create with an Alpha channel, ie
• Off topic

  3 answers, most recent on 5/21/2026

  RE: VIDEOAKTIV YT no more?
  @idd-2016 They just uploaded a couple of Sony Alpha 7R VI videos three days ago, so it definitely doesn't look like they planned this. Maybe it's a legal problem (three strikes by a malicious third party) or their account was compromised and
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 1/20/2026

  RE: Cookie cutter proportions?
  @idd-2016 Hi, More flexibility would be nice in the Cookie Cutter, including the ability to draw masks. Other than using the matte that you used, you can simply use the white colour swatch as a mask, give it chromakey alpha, resize and move it where
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 5/15/2026

  RE: MMS 2025: New AI Effects
  @me_again @AAProds @johnebaker Hi, Have any of you had problems exporting with any of these AI effects as a major part of your video? I'm using VPX17. I have an 8 minute project with AI Sharpen on on much of the footage. Actually, the footage is
• MAGIX

  34 answers, most recent on 3/31/2026

  RE: New "owners/developers" of Sequoia, Samplitude and Music Studio.
  @Reyfox Times change. I'm under the impression that Gen Alpha doesn't even own or use a PC anymore. At some point anybody who wants certain software will own it and then the market is saturated and you cannot sell enough to keep development funded.
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 5/19/2026

  RE: That old chestnut - Quicktime
  @johnebaker Thanks for the reply John. It's not so much the opening or converting of MOVs that's the annoyance, it's that Quicktime Alternative worked for both Movie Studio and MPEG Streamclip for ages but on reinstallation, because of my
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 3/22/2026

  RE: Cleaning a really poor quality video
  @johnebaker Here you go, John. Very slow on my laptop so I eventually commented-out the LSFMOD sharpener and used the sharpener in Neat Video in VDL 2026 (for another version; I imported it as a MagicYUV AVI). This one just used the last video Andy
• MAGIX

  34 answers, most recent on 3/31/2026

  RE: New "owners/developers" of Sequoia, Samplitude and Music Studio.
  @SP. I was a alpha/beta tester for Pinnacle Studio, Videostudio Pro and Paintshop pro for over a decade, so have a lot of insight of what happened, especially with Pinnacle Studio where the PM was a good person. And while you don't need a computer