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@jak.willis Hi . . . . just the header info to indicate the file is interlaced instead of progressive . . . How do you do this . . . . AFAIK, you cannot do this, there is more to this. The video must be re-encoded as the progressive video is split

SOUND FORGE

15 answers, most recent on 1/2/2026

RE: mouse won't click properly in sf 18 waveform

Seasons greetings @jim-atkinson, If you are not editing a lossy type file, the 'Proxy' setting will have no affect.Otherwise, the 'Snapping' tool may be enabled and set to 'Grid', making it difficult to precisely place the cursor. It is usually best

Movie Studio

21 answers, most recent on 6/17/2026

RE: Formatting Drive

@CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . There may be too many variables of individuals user cases in how they distribute their files across a system for conclusive individual results'. . . . Agreed. . . . . It was in no way intended to cast aspersions on your

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

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 6/28/2025

RE: placing clips on timeline by date

@Greg123 Hi What is the drone file naming format? If it is a DJI drone and the naming convention is the same as other DJI cameras, eg DJI_20250427112146_0001_D.MP4 the highlighted portion is the date and time, ie year month date hrs min sec , ie

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

@SP. and @rraud it's possible you guys were correct from the very start: maybe it IS this setting about editing MP3s in a non-compressed proxy file. I've tried this in SF18 and I can't replicate the issue so far. However, what confuses me is that

Movie Studio

70 answers, most recent on 9/19/2025

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

@me_again It has crashed so many times since I lasted posted. The PC didn't crash, when ouputting a video file, it freezes, nothing is clickable/ That screen cap is while the Magix is frozen. Task Manager is saying it's using resources, but the

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 9/24/2025

RE: Import h265 files from iPhone

Hi, link to original file (on wetransfer):

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 12/23/2025

RE: No video only sound

@emmrecs I agree with the experts Jeff, I have to as it's all gobbledygook to me. Snapdragon? I never even understood the Pentium 75 I started out with many moons ago. On very rare occasions when I've had a problem AVI, closing the Magix AVI Import

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 6/15/2026

RE: Video Deluxe 2026 - Phamtom Audio in movie playback

@John-Cianciolo Hi If you can identify the track that the 'phantom audio' is on, it will be a paler grey as indicated by the yellow arrow in the image below and there appears to be nothing on the track, delete it using the option indicated by the

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 8/8/2025

RE: Can't register SF-7b even with the key

@bzan I tried installing both the Sony Archive file and the original one I got as an upgrade from Sony. This could be the issue. As far as I know, Magix updated the installer after they took over Sound Forge from Sony. Maybe the Magix installer has

Music Maker

One answer, on 12/18/2025

RE: Creating templates.

@David-M-Turner Song Maker Templates are xml files, which can be edited or created with a text editor. Some years ago we had a long discussion about this topic here:

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 3/24/2026

RE: proDAD VitaScene V5 PRO

@browj2 @johnebaker Thanks for your replies both and yes John CB, Vitascene did show under Effects, proDAD Vitascene but nowhere else.. Yesterday I must have rebooted the computer at least a dozen times; both by restart and shutdown/start with no

Music Maker

20 answers, most recent on 4/5/2026

Music Maker 2026 Frozen at SetViews during startup

Hi, When I installed Music Maker 2026 Premium a while back, it worked fine. I kept 2025 as well as that is now allowed. It also kept working. A few weeks ago when I started it up, I go the -59 error. The remedy as instructed by Magix: Uninstall the

Video Pro X

11 answers, most recent on 7/12/2025

RE: exporting seperatly

@DRORENGEL why cant I play mpg in magix movie edit 2025 platinum Could you explain "can't play"? Do you mean nothing appears on the timeline when you drag in an MPEG, or the file won't preview in the media pool? IIRC, If Magix needs a MPEG 2 codec,

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 Hi . . . . In all cases quality is pretty poor . . . That will be the case with Hi8 recordings of this era, the maximum definition was 720 x 576 (PAL) or 720 x 480 (NTSC) ie DVD quality. Given the age of the tapes I am surprised that you

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

SOUND FORGE

8 answers, most recent on 4/21/2026

RE: Play head disappearing in SF18 Pro

Hi Rick, thanks for all that. I had toggled F and also tried \ to centre the play head, but to no avail. I haven't tried F6, but at one point, I zoomed out from the wave form and could definitely see which part of the audio file was playing and the

SOUND FORGE

8 answers, most recent on 12/15/2025

RE: sound forge 17 wont open

Thanks @SP. Here is what is coming up when I pull up the crash reports. I have emailed tech support but I haven't heard back yet. I appreciate any incite you have into this. @rraud I appreciate your tips as well, I had actually seen your tip on

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 2/1/2026

RE: Video Deluxe 2026 Could Not Find a Part of the Program

Also, in the interest of completion: I've done all the normal things you'd do here-- I'm pretty close to an expert in Windows Support and build my own machines. Windows 11 64-bit is up-to-date. I'm running the latest WHQL drivers for My Radeon 9070

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

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

All, I worked out the issue with that latest file (I should have checked before posting it): it is really an AVI with the HUFFYUV codec. Why it was made an MKV I don't know (not my doing), nor do I know why Magix opened it when it was an MP4 (I do

Movie Studio

One answer, on 7/27/2025

RE: issue with loading purchase

@Jerry-White Welcome to the Magix users forums. Unfortunately your first post here is very much lacking in detail! Please tell us at which step in the installation process the failure occurs. Assuming you have downloaded the initial file, which is

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 9/10/2025

RE: Error in module mx dec mf audio x64.dll

Hola que tal, bueno yo le encontré una solución a este error, fue muy difícil pero al final se pudo, en el caso mío estoy usando el Magix Video Deluxe 2024 Premiun, tengo otras versiones y me pasaba lo mismo e hice con todos y me solucionó al menos

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 5/28/2026

RE: Split video in to separete frames

@badbob @AAProds has given you the basics of the operation but, I have to ask: why would you want to do this? Given that video runs at 25 frames per second (PAL) or 29.97 frames per second (NTSC), a video of anything more than a few seconds is going