• Video Pro X

  16 answers, most recent on 12/7/2020

  RE: Second monitor arrangement NOT ideal
  @Ralph_S Hi Have you tried resizing and dragging the individual panes around to get what you want - this is my preferred layout and if I need to see all tracks I click the indicated icon - there is one small gotcha with this - you must click the
• Movie Studio

  272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features
  @Scenestealer Hi Peteer . . . .John - my guess is that you have the Intel GPU selected in the Program Settings> Display>Video Mode . . . . That is correct - my video tend to be mixes of video and images and using the RTX over the UHD does not
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 12/4/2020

  RE: LUTs errors
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . So how do you add or even make an icon please? . . . . It is a small jpg image, depending on what it is you are creating eg Collage template, Transition or for LUT - this is an example of some of my custom collages, they
• Movie Studio

  272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features
  @pmikep, @CubeAce Hi Mike, Ray After running MEP nearly all day rendering multiple videos I have turned the GPU scheduling off - it makes no meaningful difference, at best a 1 - 2 fps improvement and marginally less RAM usage (in places) over an 8
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 11/26/2020

  RE: had to reinstall new windows 10-having issues with "activation"
  @Andrew-Corner Hi To clarify some points - If your project setting is 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) and using Proxy* files, option is in the project settings and the lightning symbol bottom right of the preview monitor is turned on (blue) then you should
• Movie Studio

  40 answers, most recent on 11/16/2020

  RE: No sound for Intro/outro clips
  @FL612 Hi . . . . I think i will upgrade my computer, soon! . . . . Do note that to take maximum advantage of hardware acceleration (HWA) for exporting the processor must be an Intel with integrated GPU - I recommend one with the UHD 630 chipset
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/4/2020

  RE: New Video Editing PC Recommendations
  @pcs800 I have never been a fan of video chips integrated into a motherboard. If I have to get this type of thing in order to smoothly edit video with MEP, would this chip also do gaming as well as the above Nvidia? We have moved on a bit from video
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 10/21/2020

  RE: 3D Title
  @CubeAce . . . . As far as I'm aware Intel HD Graphics 4600 is not supported in MEP 2021 . . . . AFAICS it is on my laptop, however there are restrictions - see below. @d_emond Hi . . . . . as soon as i put one basic static 3D title in my project
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 10/3/2020

  RE: version 2021
  @RICHARD-BRUNT Hi Richard From the information above your PC is better than the minimum requirements with respect to the processor, RAM and OS, however do you have a Nvidia or AMD graphics card installed? If not then the specification is good, which
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 9/19/2020

  RE: Portrait Images-"Echo" Pillarbox Effect on Edges
  @AAProds @browj2 @johnebaker @Scenestealer @CubeAce Me neither, don't like to see that space going unused! Sometimes I lazily apply one of the built-in single-object collages for portraits, as in these
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 9/18/2020

  RE: Adding text where I want it on the timeline
  @hdrechsel18 Hi The good thing about Movie Edit Pro in one way is that you can mix audio, video, images titles etc on any track you like, however as you have suggested it can be chaotic. My preferred 'organisation' and also workflow is: video and
• Photostory

  3 answers, most recent on 9/14/2020

  RE: Re time Collages
  @wendy-weissman Hi Wendy, Collage templates, like all other templates are not features - they are templates. Collage templates, for the most part, include keyframing various effects, including size/position animation and more. These are not amenable
• Photostory

  3 answers, most recent on 9/14/2020

  RE: Re time Collages
  @wendy-weissman Hi . . . . I looked in the manual and other than manually moving the animation objects I can see no other way to fix this. Am I missing something? . . . You are not missing anything, depending on the collage you are selecting it
• Photostory

  3 answers, most recent on 9/14/2020

  Re time Collages
  All the collages seem to have pre set timing. Most of these are too long given how many pictures are in them. When I change the timing manually it does not seem to change the animation at all. Even when I select "all objects" (in fact that makes it
• Photostory

  7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2020

  RE: Add slide without having to move all objects over in timeline.
  @wendy-weissman Hi Wendy, Further to what John EB mentioned, Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium also allows you to create your own collages. Of course, it takes work but it can pay off. There are some tutorials on this. Example, I made several templates
• Photostory

  7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2020

  RE: Add slide without having to move all objects over in timeline.
  @wendy-weissman Hi . . . . Movie Edit pro plus/premium have the ability to do the picture collages . . . . Yes it does, Photostory also has this capability with many others under the Templates tabs . . . . but if Movie Edit pro does both video and
• Photostory

  7 answers, most recent on 9/10/2020

  RE: Add slide without having to move all objects over in timeline.
  So does Movie Edit pro plus/premium have the ability to do the picture collages? I have used FCP 10 also for video editing and the generators for pictures are just horrible. That's why I was looking for a slide show software. but if Movie Edit pro
• Movie Studio

  272 answers, most recent on 4/1/2021

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 2021 is out - New features
  @pmikep Hi . . . . Magix makes some decision that if you have enough cores, it will go all cores instead of GPU in certain circumstances . . . . I have found the the CPU will be used intensively/exclusively for Titles, Transitions, collage effects,
• Video Pro X

  82 answers, most recent on 9/20/2020

  RE: [Closed] HumbleBundle with Video Pro X11 for 25$ US
  @CubeAce @johnebaker @browj2 As John has mentioned we are agreed that ticking FX on GPU slows down exports with our higher end systems - in my case approximately 30%. Magix mention that this may speed up exports on systems with a weaker CPU and I
• Video Pro X

  82 answers, most recent on 9/20/2020

  RE: [Closed] HumbleBundle with Video Pro X11 for 25$ US
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . I 've often wondered about preview rendering as it doesn't seem to work as well as creating proxy files . . . . Preview rendering works best on complex sections, or range specified, of the timeline eg the Intro project you
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 8/3/2020

  RE: Easiest video format for the software to work with
  @pcs800 Hi . . . . I am a 25 year I.T. professional, I have built thousands of computers and am very well aware of how to tweak an OS for performance . . . . The pace of development of software is such that the average lifespan of a PC is 3 to 5
• Video Pro X

  133 answers, most recent on 8/18/2020

  RE: VPX12 New Version now out - New Features - Old bugs?
  Hi I have recently installed the latest version and patch and have to say I am very impressed so far. The install went smoothly with everything I had in VPX11 and earlier programs still available including Prodad, New Blue, and Hitfilm plugins. The
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 7/16/2020

  RE: Video Formats
  @MAA Hi Jim, MEP has more and better tools than PhotoStory and more tracks. The editing tools make life a lot easier. More tracks may come into play if you start using collages, especially if you make your own. I made some up for series of photos
• Photostory

  6 answers, most recent on 7/13/2020

  RE: Getting Photos to stay on the screen
  @sunstone Hi Steve, Make sure to get Plus or Premium, not basic, which would be worse than PhotoStory. Premium is currently on sale for less than Plus, so go for Premium. I presume that you are trying to build the equivalent of a video wall. This