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@rickduley Rick, Movie Edit pro/Movie Studio/Video Deluxe have always been flaky with MKV imports, in fact, in my case, more often than not they don't work. Magix can't deal with the MKV format, even though the video itself is probably just plain

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 6/13/2025

[Closed] Rendering takes forever event hough I set rendering at the LOWEST Sett

Rendering takes an unbelievable amount of time, I even set the settings to the LOWEST QUALITY POSSIBLE, And this was done on a very short test video. used MP4 cuz I thought it would be the EASIEST for the Software to render...if there is an easier 1

Movie Studio

15 answers, most recent on 11/12/2025

RE: MPEG-4-Codec

I thought I had put the info my Profile under Signature. Ill have a look again. Here is the MediaInfo data for the firsts Video: GeneralComplete name : G:\Videos\Lin\On USB\2-054 Shib3 P1of2.MP4Format

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 9/5/2025

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

Hi John, Let me describe my computer specifications: CPU: Intel i7-2600K @ 3.40GhzRAM: 32GB DDR-3GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super (4GB) (PCI-e card)Monitor resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60HzOS: Windows 10 x64 22H2NVIDIA drivers are up to date: v581.15

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

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

@Can-Dive Hi Can-Dive @AAProds made the observation that this extension, M4V, is the default for Handbrake . . . . This is easly changed in the programs Tools, Preferences, Output files option: A common pitfall with any video editting, is straying

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 8/8/2025

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

Thanks for the continued help. The program installs just fine, and it's under a Sony folder in C: Everything normal there. The program opens normally and functions, except that I keep getting the "26 days left" message. It started with 30 days, and

Movie Studio

69 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

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

Thanks for your various replies - really helpful and feeling we are getting somewhere. I tried downloading MediaInfo again and it worked perfectly - and your instructions helped a lot - but for whatever reason it seems the thing I downloaded

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

RE: Wich graphic card is better for Chroma Key effect ?

Sorry, I should have given you more infos. So here it is : I am using MAGIX Movie Studio 2023 Version 22.0.3.172 (UDP 3) BTW I tried MAGIX Movie Studio 2025 cause it comes with Boris Chroma Key, but it was worse, so I came back to 2023. I show you

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: 2026 Manual doesn't agree with program - Split Photostory, etc.

@doane Hi . . . . DVD writer is not Bluetooth capable . . . . To clarify, Bluetooth is a format of wireless communication between devices, eg mobile phone/ear buds mouse/computer. Blu-ray is a disc format. . . . . anyway to use a custom menu image

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

Hi @Paul-Fegan, Did you 'save' or 'Save as' the PCM file prior to encoding the MP3? If you do reinstall SFP-18, I would first try "Reset all preferences and clear cached data" in SF's 'File' menu. If that does not help and you plan to

Video Pro X

17 answers, most recent on 6/13/2025

RE: VPX 17 - project folder - transferring clip from list to timeline

@browj2 Thanks for taking the time to conduct a comprehensive test. I too added stars to the properties of a jpg and mp4 video. Note; I was unable to add stars to a AVCHD video file. While the ratings did not appear in the Project Folder of VPX16,

Video Pro X

29 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

RE: Kodak C330 audio

I still get strange errors from Magix when trying to import files from HandBrake. MP4 H264 AAC says "QuickTime is not installed. QuickTime must be installed in order to play this file." MKV H264 AAC says "An unknown error has occurred. No media

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 8/24/2025

RE: MAGIX Video deluxe 2026 Premium MPEG_4 Activation problems

@PETER-SMITH1397 @johnebaker Update: Now I'm getting the MP4 Activation Failed message after deleting that reg key. I mistakenly thought I had imported an MP4 OK, but it was actually an MPEG 2 in disguise (don't ask! 😂). This is the file I'm trying

Video Pro X

18 answers, most recent on 6/29/2025

RE: Magix Capture - Standalone program

@browj2 @CubeAce @Gid Apology for not get back to your comments. This weekend I had a chance to review my original post @browj2 I included some of my concerns in a recent ticket with Magix. Here are the main problems: Video is recorded at 24fps (I

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/8/2025

RE: Nvidia RTX 5080 Graphics Card | But MEP 2026 suddenly stopped using it

Here is the Media-Info data for the footage I'm importing: Format : MPEG-4Format profile : Base Media / Version 2Codec ID : mp42 (mp41/isom)File size

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

RE: Wich graphic card is better for Chroma Key effect ?

@CubeAce Hi Ray, You're right, 23 Gb is very unusual, but it's just a typing error... sorry, my fault. It's in fact 32 Gb, two 16 Gb sticks. As for the audio buffers, I'll take your advice and change from 6 to 2. When you say "a setting of 32768 for

Movie Studio

25 answers, most recent on 10/8/2025

Issues with MAGIX Video deluxe 2026 Plus

Hello again! I am back, plagued yet again with technical issues! Figured I'd just pop in and see if these are known issues, or if anyone else is experiencing them, or if there's already a solution... Number one, I'm having problems with my tracks.

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

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 4/2/2026

RE: Export quality from RTX Ti3060 far inferior to UHD770

Hi Al Thanks for the video clips, I see the same as you. Can you upload an original drone video for us to test with. Which export preset are you using? The MediaInfo data of the exports looks like the video is being encoded with PAL GOP settings,

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 10/24/2025

[Solved] Movie Sudio 2025 developed a strange behaviour

Greetings, MS2025 is starting to annoy me. For the past couple of weeks or so I've been editing some of my nieces GoPro MOVs (I think - Cineform anyway) videos. This has been going well with no real hassle except for some stange reason occasionally

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 9/16/2025

RE: MP3 conversion glitches

I'm stumped, Rick, because I've now used three PCs and not all even in the same location, and with different software: REAPER, Sound Forge 14 and VLC Player. Two with Windows 10 and the other with Windows 11. I have a new PC at home using an old

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 9/4/2025

RE: Video playback stutters

Thank you so much for all the info! Screenshots of the settings wouldnt really help since I have the language in Dutch and cant change it until I install the progam again. Tell me if you still want them. This is the info I found: Version number:

Video Pro X

29 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

RE: Kodak C330 audio

@nicolesharp100 60 FPS means the filesize is 3 times larger than it needs to be by tripling each frame Not so, these lossy codecs use a comparison system between each frame and only save what's changed. At regular intervals, there's a full frame to

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 9/5/2025

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

@calamar Hi . . . . 60min long takes more than 8 hours . . . GPU encoding enabled . . . GPU acceleration was disabled . . . . This would suggest the CPU is doing all the encoding. What is the specification of your computer system including Windows