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Never had smart-rendering work since the arrival of MPEG 4. MPEG 2 used to SR nicely years ago but that's obviously fallen by the wayside. @jak.willis Jak, I think you're worrying too much about quality loss. Do a test. On a short segment of one of

Movie Studio

47 answers, most recent on 8/24/2025

RE: "Takes" functionality

@browj2 Hi John . . . . BUG - in MMS2025, similar to the PTF bug in VPX, when I drag or import a take to the timeline, I get a 1 second object, not the actual duration of the take.. . . . . I am not seeing this now, Takes import to the timeline at

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 1/20/2026

RE: VDL 2026 Patch 316 - Had to deactivate then reactivate the same PC

@AAProds, @CubeAce Hi Al, Ray . . . . trying to install the program on too many computers and that I had to deactivate one of them. I had the same, the good thing is you do not have to shutdown the program to log in to your account, the dialog takes

Movie Studio

46 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: BEWARE Latest Nvidia GTX 591.44 Drivers

Just started and meanwhile successfully finished another test using HEVC after changing from 591.44 Studio to former 581.80 Game Ready, please see screenshots:I can now confirm the original post by @me_again and observations already made by several

Movie Studio

46 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: BEWARE Latest Nvidia GTX 591.44 Drivers

@Manfred-von-Erlangen When your 25 minute was encoding, did the window actually say hardware encoding? Driver 591.44 encodes OK but the window does not mention hardware encoding just the "please update driver..." Incidentally, I tried the Srudio

Video Pro X

7 answers, most recent on 6/24/2023

RE: [Solved] File Not Found

@Joshua-Burner Hmm, If you create a new project just as a test, can you add those files to it? If not it sounds like something is broken with the file, We're getting somewhere. It says I need quicktime installed, but I thought I have the latest

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 4/2/2026

RE: Export quality from RTX Ti3060 far inferior to UHD770

@AAProds Hi Al . . . . I've made up a 1min 42 sec video of some drone footage with a soundtrack and the video definitely runs slower than the audio . . . . Is the sound track that of the drone or a music / other audio track? . . . . The timecode

Video Pro X

33 answers, most recent on 7/15/2025

RE: keyframe bugs remaining in the current version of VPX17 (v..269)

@Betovalle 1- incorrect keyframe timeline time marker Unless I have a misunderstanding of the issue; the "keyframe time" is the time reference to the original clip rather than the timeline itself. For example, if my original clip is 20 seconds long

SOUND FORGE

6 answers, most recent on 3/24/2024

[Solved] VST plugin as real time effect

I want to use a VST plugin in Sound Forge in real time which my DAW applies in the output bus effects bin.Some context. I don't have the luxury of an acoustically treated room so I typically have to mix in headphones. To improve the end results I

Other products

No answers, created on 8/1/2025

New ASIO driver from Steinberg.

A new widely compatible ASIO driver has been released by Steinberg. For those that may be having to use an inboard sound chip or older sound card or one relying on the ASIO4ALL or Magix own ASIO driver, this new, more efficient driver, has at least

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 10/24/2025

RE: SF Pro 14 is erroneously looking for ARA Waves plug-ins

@joe-patti Waves will probably answer you that they don't support Sound Forge. They have a list of supported software on their website. I think it's caused by a problem with the way Sound Forge handled ARA plugins in the past. I've tested the Sound

ACID

One answer, on 7/9/2024

RE: Some plugins just showing up as a black box when installed

@Rayz-R If possible, try to test the plugins in other host applications first, for example via the free VSTHost. If they also appear black it's likely a problem with your graphics device driver. Try to update it.

SOUND FORGE

15 answers, most recent on 7/27/2025

RE: Scripting question

Thanks SP, I was literately searching for the text string "ForgeApp". I'm currently using Visual Studio Code to work on Scripts. I've never actually used Visual Studio. I did use Atmel Studio (long before Microchip bought them) and I believe Atmel

Video Pro X

46 answers, most recent on 5/14/2025

RE: [Solved] VPX16 plays Sony XAVC with no sound

@johnebaker @Marc-Goder @AAProds @CubeAce @Gid Hi Guys,I think I have determined how/why some of you can play these XAVC files with audio and others can't. While you profess that you have never installed K-lite (and I believe you) you have installed

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 9/20/2025

RE: Inserting a clip on the timeline

Hi John, Yes, that makes it simpler and less fault prone, thanks. @Reyfox You are right, when you change you need to eat it all... On this software: I am still in the learning curb, so I make a lot of starters mistakes working on a rather complex

Video Pro X

One answer, on 9/21/2024

RE: Video Pro X. HEVC render slowing down.

After further tests, it seems to me that this is a problem with the GPU decoding HEVC. At first it does it quickly, and after some time it slows down significantly, running at 90%. I started rendering at different places in the movie and the

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 2/21/2025

RE: Saving A take

@Gid Hi Gid Thanks for testing, I have patched up to .233 and this is what I get. This is identical to the VPX project folder issue, except that the imported takes are just over 2 secs long, in VPX they are 1 sec long. Very odd. 🙁 John EB

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 3/16/2026

SF11 is stable - SF13, 14, 16 fail.

I have been struggling with SF for years, I can no longer test if SF18 fixes issues or not but I am on SF16. When I've upgraded to new versions the bugs have not been fixed and have given up paid upgrading.I've just discovered that all the versions

Movie Studio

46 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

RE: Stereo not supported - burning disc

Hi Brendan Edited: Thanks for the additional information and video clip. . . . . I am using the same disc drive . . . . If I set the disc format in the burn section of to MPEG-2 instead of H.264 which makes the files much bigger, it will burn

Video Pro X

165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

RE: [Closed] Website Observation

Hi @Reyfox In my tests that I carried out with the trial version of VP22 x VPX16 (and also MMS2024) specifically in the question that involves reducing (drastically) the speed of the generated clip to a slowness (for example from 10 seconds to 2 to

Audio Cleaning Lab

17 answers, most recent on 9/14/2024

RE: can no longer cut/delete in Sound Forge 19

@browj2 i have found a problem. Not sure if it is only one. The playback marker must have the green marker at same location - then it works in Ver 1. I will test more. Thanks for your advice. If there is way to disable green marker or reset it all

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 4/2/2026

RE: Export quality from RTX Ti3060 far inferior to UHD770

@AAProds Hi Al Thanks for the new clip, definitely stutters with the 591.86 RTX driver and patch .316. . . . . I don't get HW accel on the 3060 ("update your driver" message in the export dialogue) . . . . Strange, I tried the following: Project

Movie Studio

66 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

RE: The output formats are messed up in Movie Studio 2024

The aspect ratio is indeed 3:2 which is calculated from 720:480. AVI does not support display aspect ratio, so it is up to the display program to determine it. I just imported it into MMS 2025 and it imports as well as displays. I imported my

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 12/5/2025

RE: Video Deluxe 2026 Keeps Hanging

Thanks. I'm not technically au fait with the first part, but I glean from it that my system may not be man enough in terms of graphics... 😕 My PC was built for audio, to use in my home recording studio, so I didn't opt for a higher spec graphics