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John, final destination is youtube so my sister gets to view my holiday films cheers Brian. i did take note settings but trying to find them and there not in my docs folder now p.s i have a 4k video camera and my phone is 4k i think my

Video Pro X

45 answers, most recent on 6/6/2026

RE: DVDs cut don't play

@rickduley Rick, Should a squeaky-clean version of VPX16 burn DVD-DL discs okay? It "should", but "will" it? 😂 One thing before I risk turning another DVD-DL into a brick: Burn to the "Image Recorder"/ISO first. If that bit fails, you know it's the

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 9/5/2025

Blu-ray media created playback issue. Image bounces/jitters

I made my first Blu-Ray disc with Video Deluxe 2025 Plus. It was an easy one from 3 mp4 videos with a resolution of 1920x1080p @ 25fps and I created a simple menu to browse through the three titles in the disc. I used H.264 codification and adapted

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 1/20/2026

RE: VDL 2026 Patch 316 - Had to deactivate then reactivate the same PC

@johnebaker do you have both activation slots used, and/or recent updates/upgrades to Windows? John, yes, one for my desktop and one for my laptop. The update on my desktop threw up the error. There was a Windows update at the same time. Will check

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Unable to import MKV files into Video deluxe 2026 Plus, Windows 10

@Gra_Ham @CubeAce @johnebaker @Bol @me_again I've snipped a portion of Graham's file and with his approval, put it up on Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SaWwmALnC3vG1EwjVD3Vpz-OuWoWI8gF/view?usp=sharing Even after a Handbrake

Movie Studio

31 answers, most recent on 4/16/2026

RE: Video deluxe 2026

@ImTerribleAtThis Hi I have been looking at the issue with the LUTs not appearing in the Templates tab with a 'clean' install of VDL, ie not an upgrade from an existing installed version. The easiest to setup and use for the LUTs, is the folder

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 12/4/2025

RE: Corrupted Audio

NOTE: I have a few project files where I was going through the process of trial and error repairs, and a few more renders (I had already deleted an object source file in this one- see the small gap in timeline). I'm not sure these two

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 7/24/2025

RE: can't register new computer

Hi!, Im sorry for the confusing, I was using Movie Studio 2023. i do have a serial key, but after installing software on my computer it requires an activation code. I'm trying to generate it from my magix account but i doesn't work. I have

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 7/24/2025

can't register new computer

Hi, I have bought and used movie maker 2023 on my old computer. I have a new computer but i can't create a activation code to activate software on new laptop. It give me error: Which means: "Error durning activation Activation wasn't successfull,

SOUND FORGE

One answer, on 9/3/2025

RE: VU meter when recording

Welcome to the Magix Sound Forge users community @Fred-Parker To view the record level meter: View> Record Options"It is a separate window from the playback meters "If you wish to view the record levels before recording (aka, rolling tape) enable

Video Pro X

11 answers, most recent on 7/12/2025

RE: exporting seperatly

Hello @AAProds, You didn't strike me as a smart aleck at all. You just wanted to point out that this option already existed. I used to create takes (*.TK2) from my DV tapes using scene detection (Shift+Z). To place one of these takes on the

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 1/12/2026

Video Deluxe 2026 - Access Violation Code - Program Crashes

Hi everyone. I have just purchased Video Deluxe 2026 and when trying to start a project I open a drive on my PC where my videos are and I get this Access Violation message pop up and once closed the program crashes. I run Windows 11 and my GPU is

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 4/3/2026

Installation Gets Stuck

I have recently purchased Music Maker 2026 Premium edition and downloaded its setup exe from my products section. When I run it it gets stuck at Stage 2 of 11 forever (Left it overnight and it was sill at the same position next morning). Some info

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 7/3/2025

RE: 2nd try AI Media Management in Video Deluxe

Thanks for responding John! I did find the GUI configuration settings and tried flipping between CPU and the GPU. And I Googled the graphics card when I activated the codec so I had a pretty good idea it wasn't going to be...blazingly fast. My hope

Movie Studio

48 answers, most recent on 9/29/2025

RE: Weird issue with using Smart Copy/Smart Render in MEP 2019 Premium

@AAProds - Progressive to Interlaced conversion. As requested here's a small zip file to download. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d4vJujeRaRIq4xidmKM0vgwvJ1DA3RdR/view?usp=sharing It contains two 6 second files. Original Progressive mp4 and

Music Maker

7 answers, most recent on 2/11/2026

RE: How to Change Hand to Cursor

@Whoking Sorry, yes, for MM the cursor can be a hand. When I start an MMM project and add an audio file, right at the beginning of the track I see the following: The cursor is the red line! Do you not see this? (Certainly if you move the mouse

Movie Studio

48 answers, most recent on 9/29/2025

RE: Weird issue with using Smart Copy/Smart Render in MEP 2019 Premium

AFAIK, you cannot do this, there is more to this I can do it, and have done it, with several editing/DVD programmes including Vegas Pro, VMS and DVDA. The image isn't changed. The two fields are the same. It's just that they aren't taken from two

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 12/22/2025

RE: SPLIT WHILE PLAYING WITH LETTER T

@Aamer-Bader Hi . . . . we are able to edit on fly while plaiying the video in video deluxe . . . . Neither @browj2, nor I, I was testing with Movie Studio 2022 and 2023 in my case, can replicate this just using the T key. Can you upload a screen

Movie Studio

48 answers, most recent on 9/29/2025

RE: Weird issue with using Smart Copy/Smart Render in MEP 2019 Premium

On closer examination... I'm not sure what that upper image is telling me regarding "Render". I did another test, setting a very low bitrate, and even though it said "Export with Smart Copy successful", it didn't smart-copy it at all, it did a full

Off topic

One answer, on 11/7/2025

RE: Magix video converter

@tolti Hi The drivers for the older USB dongles are no longer available. Windows 10 should have installed the correct drivers, however the device may not be accessible to the program you are using because the Windows, Settings, Privacy &

Other products

4 answers, most recent on 12/20/2025

RE: Strange error message with Photo Manager Deluxe

Hi John Many thanks for the response. Yes, I do use OneDrive but I have it set that all files in the images folders are also stored locally so it shouldn't really be grabbing them from the cloud. I've opened photos outside of OneDrive and they

Video Pro X

45 answers, most recent on 6/6/2026

RE: DVDs cut don't play

@rickduley Hi Rick . . . . You must have an old copy of Bilbo's (PC) specs . . . . I do not have any copy of your system specs, I am referring to the information that is currently in your Signature as shown below:- From the log file, it looks like

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 8/7/2025

RE: Problem download video using FIREWIRE

Hello @zdenekrsa, You're welcome. However, you cannot and should not confuse the standard MPEG-2 codec with the MPEG-2 codec (MainConcept). I know that in previous versions you could download and use the MPEG-4 codec (MainConcept) and MPEG-2 codec

Movie Studio

70 answers, most recent on 9/19/2025

RE: Reasonably affordable graphics card for Magix Movie Edit Pro Plus

@Tusk Hi. Again I would like to see some images from your Task Manager. This time from your project drive HDD. Is it an external drive? What are the drive's specs? What type of USB port is it plugged into if external? If internal, again we need some