• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 3/8/2024

  RE: MMS 2022 Suite, Slideshow Maker
  @Greg123 HI Greg . . . . What I was trying to explain is that my phone take 16:7.33 ratio pictures and i wanted to convert them to 16:9  . . . . Squashing or stretching images is not good practice, and is, as Al has commented, going to look awful
• Video Pro X

  16 answers, most recent on 4/2/2024

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot key framing greyed out
  @Kraznet Hi, No bug. You have to click on something to turn on the effect, like a direction or Zoom (from/to section). Then the effect will turn on in the bottom window. Another way is to first go to Size/Position/Rotation, click on Apply effect,
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 10/10/2024

  RE: YouTube Shorts Help
  @DarkWestern I'm at fault for writing in cryptic; looking back, my instructions were a bit misleading. So, here's a better version. - Set up your movie settings (File>Settings>Movie); use one of the Social media presets, or type in your own
• Photostory

  25 answers, most recent on 12/14/2023

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot
  @patrick-drouet Hi, Camera/zoom shot is made expressly for creating a zoom in or out over time. Keyframes are created automatically. That is what you did. If that is not what you want, do not use that effect. If you want a simple static zoom, then
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 3/28/2024

  RE: this may be a silly question but i need to ask it
  @spuddy13 Hi Brian. You can use size position rotation to increase the vertical videos to fill the frame but you will lose parts of the top or bottom of the video clips and the images will get softer and may seem noisier than the landscape clips
• Movie Studio

  No answers, created on 6/12/2023

  Altering the 360 field of view
  Hi, I have some old 360 footage, I am able to set the screen rotation with keyframes which is great. Final thing i need to do is set the field of view by scrolling in or out until i am happy how it looks. When i export the video, the FOV goes back
• Photostory

  25 answers, most recent on 12/14/2023

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot
  @David-Robinson5527 Hi Here are 2 examples of Picture in Picture that can be done in Photostory just using Size, Position and Rotation (SPR) effect in both demos, plus Brightness and Color change for the background image, and black images to create
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 2/4/2023

  RE: Dynamic Titles 'Typewriter subtitles' not working correctly MS 2023
  All I wanted to do was use the Dynamic Typewriter Subtitles: add, rotate, size. The entire field turned black and I COULD NOT figure out how to change that. The field showed only one line of text on the bottom of the field and I COULD NOT change the
• Photo & Graphic Designer

  3 answers, most recent on 4/11/2023

  RE: Object stretch and squeeze - sadly still missing... Why?
  woe, I just read this tip. and it worked for me. sorry and thanks for your help.   If you right click on the “aspect ratio” lock, you’ll see a small menu. On which, you’ll see the item "smart transform". Deselect that.Also, to distort the aspect
• Photostory

  3 answers, most recent on 6/7/2023

  RE: Struggling with zooming the way I want
  @michelle-m Hi, Camera/Zoom Shot is a front end easy way to do panning and zooming. It actually uses the Size/Position/Rotation effect and keyframing, all the same as Magix Movie Studio does. So I suggest that you start with my tutorials on
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/30/2023

  RE: Video zoom function unusable
  @DuneElliot There were/are issues with Camera/Zoomshot and Section; they were basically a mess, but have been fixed up mostly. The only problem I can see now is that for CZS, you have to deselect any object with the effect otherwise the it will be
• Photostory

  One answer, on 1/31/2023

  RE: Bad some(!) photos aspect ratio
  @Darek-Wolczynski Hi Do the images import to the timeline with the correct rotation? What is the version number of Photostory as found under help, About? I have v 22.0.3.146 and cannot replicate the issue. Are the images from a mobile phone? If so,
• Photostory

  25 answers, most recent on 12/14/2023

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot
  @David-Robinson5527 Hi Here are 2 examples of Picture in Picture that can be done in Photostory just using Size, Position and Rotation (SPR) effect in both demos, plus Brightness and Color change for the background image, and black images to create
• Photostory

  4 answers, most recent on 6/19/2023

  RE: How to see remove effect without removing the image?
  @F-L Hi With the image/video object selected, select the effect you want to delete/remove in the Effects tab, then click the indicated icon in the selected effects dialog, the example below is for the Size, Position & Rotation effect to remove
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 3/16/2023

  RE: editing an upright cell phone video in MEP
  @kate-m Hi Assuming you final video is also in Portrait format, see this tutorial on working with portrait video from a mobile device, the rotation may correct automatically, if not then use the Rotation effect to orient the image correctly and Size
• Movie Studio

  66 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

  RE: The output formats are messed up in Movie Studio 2024
  @clement5 Setting 4:3 should just compress the output horizontally while keeping the vertical at 480 to have a realistic picture. Never! should a program automatically squash a too-wide video into the selected frame size. You can use your TV remote
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 3/22/2023

  RE: Movie Studio 2023
  @Tara_888 Hi, I have made many tutorials - including how to do chromakey and how to use size/position/rotation effects. You need to learn how to use the tools. We had a thread on this forum long ago showing just what you asked for. Do some
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

  RE: Wich graphic card is better for Chroma Key effect ?
  @dan_lachance Hi Dan. I did say "a setting of 32768 for both should be sufficient. Possibly slightly lower." I was being cautious in case the audio file was lengthy or an unusual bit depth or for another reason a large amount needed to be loaded to
• Video Pro X

  31 answers, most recent on 1/19/2024

  RE: Video Pro X12 - Newblue Elements not working/registered?
  @Clifford-Bowman Hi Cliff. I did say to turn anything within the NB effect that has Bur attached to the slider control to off. That cleared up that problem more for me although not perfect. I think adding the frame doesn't help either. The effect
• Movie Studio

  14 answers, most recent on 12/11/2023

  RE: creating panoramas
  @joserobles1941 @CubeAce Hi, Here is my effort with 6 images and accepting to create the pan from left to right. I say that the overlay should be about 30%. As John EB mentions, 15-20% works fine so long as what is in the overlap is relatively easy
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 2/6/2025

  RE: Looking to use this OPENING in newest video.
  @Reyfox @FF22 @Gid @browj2 @johnebaker Hi John. Well, I have used the Boris Particle Illusion program for as long as there has been a free download version and Boris Titler has the same workflow so personally I didn't find it that difficult to use.
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 12/4/2023

  RE: Video deluxe 2024 - Position multiple objects at once
  @Jonas-F Hi, Yes, several things have changed with the new setup. Also getting rid of the buttons that move the object by one pixel at a time and the now featured anchor point just make things unneccessarily complicated. It's not complicated when
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 2/4/2023

  RE: Dynamic Titles 'Typewriter subtitles' not working correctly MS 2023
  @seniorjc Hi. Did you add key frames manually to the size position rotation effect? Ray.  
• MAGIX

  23 answers, most recent on 10/28/2023

  Photostory Deluxe 2024 - Update 23.0.1.159
  Dear Community, We are very happy to present the new patch for PhotoStory Deluxe 2024 to you. This patch brings a variety of improvements and optimizations. Here is an overview of the issues that have been addressed and the improvements