• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 2/25/2026

  RE: Can't get Red Text
  "Personally I only use yellow text against a blue background, adding a fine black border 1 -2 px wide. For a light background as seen in your image, I would use a fine black border to separate it from the background" You got a good *red* in your
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 2/25/2026

  RE: Can't get Red Text
  Hi . . . . Please note that the color in the Text selection box is MUCH REDDER than it looks here. . . . color in the screenshots, as you see, is what I see see in Irfanview and Photoshop . . . . Does this mean you see the colour issue only in
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 2/25/2026

  RE: Can't get Red Text
  @KJS-LES Hi . . . . Please note that the color in the Text selection box is MUCH REDDER than it looks here. . . . color in the screenshots, as you see, is what I see see in Irfanview and Photoshop . . . . Does this mean you see the colour issue only
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 2/25/2026

  RE: Can't get Red Text
  "As you can see the Standard mode short cut is . (period on the main keyboard), not the number pad to the right if you have one. The setting the Preview Monitor is using should have a tick (check) mark to show which option is the active setting John
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 1/24/2026

  [Closed] Vegas Movie Studio 16 Custom Render Template Not Appearing
  Currently editing a vertical video filmed on my iPhone and am trying to render my video so it appears without the black "widescreen" borders around my video. I have already set the video aspect ratio to my custom size, however I need to adjust the
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 2/16/2024

  [Solved] Frame around Preview Editing Screen
  I think I have finally found my answer but just hope to seek confirmation. I am working on editing a 5:4 video that because it was originally recorded at night, it is quite hard to see the outside edges of the video to be able to zoom in. Am I right
• Movie Studio

  48 answers, most recent on 9/29/2025

  RE: Weird issue with using Smart Copy/Smart Render in MEP 2019 Premium
  @johnebaker Thanks for the definitions, John. Help has zero information on "Smart Render" and very little on Smart copy, saying it's for AVCHD ("If this option is activated, unedited AVCHD material with hard cuts is transferred without changes. This
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 2/29/2024

  [Solved] Modify typewriter template.
  (Video deluxe 2024 Plus) Hi, 1. is it possible to have the typewriter template start "typing" closer to the left border?2. Is it possible to have the typewriter effect continue quicker on the second line. I have shifted text in the past with the
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  @CubeAce Does 'Image border effects' work correctly for you & is it supposed to have a shadow? The clip I'm using is 2160x3840. AVC. I don't know if that makes a difference.
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  @Gid Hi Gid The simplest method, ie no need for any effect and does not hurt the render time, is to place an black rectangle image between the image and the blurred background and resize it to give the border widths you need. The image I have used
• Movie Studio

  25 answers, most recent on 10/8/2025

  RE: Issues with MAGIX Video deluxe 2026 Plus
  @DarkWestern The monitor settings shouldn't have any reflection on what Windows sees, They do, actually. I had an issue a while back with a very indistinct border between the video window in the Preview monitor. The video window is pure black, but
• Video Pro X

  27 answers, most recent on 3/28/2025

  RE: .mov file is disappearing over time
  @Joshua-Burner Hi Thanks for the example video, I assume you have not uploaded the original .MOV file as @Gid has asked for, due to it being a purchased video file and the licensing stops you sharing the file with us. Download and install MediaInfo
• Video Pro X

  27 answers, most recent on 3/28/2025

  RE: .mov file is disappearing over time
  My comment - I don't see Chroma key on the main nest, Chroma Key that is applied in the nested sequence might not transfer through to the main nest? ie it might not come through as an object with transparency, I've no experience with VPX in these
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 12/30/2024

  RE: Movie Sutdio 2025 Suite - Display Color vs Video Area
  @CubeAce Hi RAy . . . . I think the plug-in 'ink outline' which was really meant to make text more defined might work or some form of lined boarder or shadow in those instances would be useful. . . . . I put a black or solid colour image behind the
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 7/29/2024

  [Closed] VPX16: Interpolation for interlace footage?
  In the VPX16 user manual it mentions : Interpolation for interlace footage along with Anti-interlace filter and Border cropping adjustment in the object context window. But when I look at the VPX16 context menu it only contains Anti-Interlace
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 5/23/2026

  RE: Crystal Ball Gazing
  @bjtap Hi To answer your questions, from my point of view: Yes and no, responses are getting better, however the going round in circles with the AI feature is a pain, it ewill eventually give up and forward the request to a Support person.  ProDad
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 4/21/2023

  [Solved] Section Effect does not work
  Hello,   I am using Movie Edit Pro, Version 21.0.2.138. Everything is working well, however, a very simple function refuses to save any changes: the Effects -> Section one. I simply want to crop out black borders from a video. I recorded it at
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 8/19/2024

  RE: Can you use different fonts in the same text box?
  @johnebaker @Gid @lighthope @Gid Hi John. I did try to adjust text as described by Gid before posting but have just tried again. This time with better success but each change, either to a font, colour change, or border change froze the program for
• Video Pro X

  27 answers, most recent on 3/28/2025

  RE: .mov file is disappearing over time
  ...MediaInfo and analyse a video clip for all the data required, please post all the data... GeneralComplete name                            : F:\Triple F\Joshscorcher_FFF_Assets\Cartoon Fire Transitions 07.movFormat                                
• Video Pro X

  5 answers, most recent on 3/31/2024

  RE: Deinterlacing old footage VHS Lagarith with good results possible?
  Yes I appreciate the comments guys. I was going through VD2 with the LAGS AVI then doing a crop away black bars head switching noise fuzzy edges. Normally I crop away the fuzzy edges the use the add borders in black and re centre the cropepd frame
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 12/15/2024

  RE: Uploading YouTube video
  @Nani425 If we're talking about UPloading to YT, here are my tips: -Upscale your videos to at least 1440 eg 2560x1440 16:9 or 1920x1440 4:3 and YT will encode your videos in the better VP9 codec (that is for MP4/H264, don't know about MPEG 2, which
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 6/7/2023

  [Solved] Do we already have direct solution to fill vertical video?
  Hi people! I've been absent for a while... I found myself that using "amateur" video editing programs (WSF, DVR) covered my needs in a better way. Anyway, I'm about to start a big project and wondered if VPX latest version fixed any of the big
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  Hi, either I've forgotten how to use this or ........... I've already done this in Vegas but it took 20mins to render this 13min clip & I know MMS is sometimes faster because I do still use it occasionally for simple 1 track projects or
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
  @johnebaker Hi John. If you look closely to my settings I had changed both border width and colour all be it not as dramatic as your example. My problem with it is it still looks very much 2D slapped onto the foreground no matter the settings. To