• 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
• Video Pro X

  44 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: Rendering an 11 mintue video takes 8 hours +
  @TechWizard Thanks for your comprehensive set of tests and reporting of results - very interesting and @johnebaker has made the same points I would have mentioned. The only thing to add there is that if the end requirement for the export can handle
• Video Pro X

  44 answers, most recent on 7/2/2020

  RE: Rendering an 11 mintue video takes 8 hours +
  @TechWizard Hi and welcome to the forum. We need more information: In Windows Graphics setting which GPU is VPX set to use? Are there any effects, collages,Picture in Picture etc applied to the clips in the project? What does the Task Manger
• Other products

  3 answers, most recent on 6/17/2020

  Which product is best?
  I would like to create an online photo album for a group of about 100 photos, with the following specifications. Can I do this with MAGIX Photo Manager, PhotoStory, or SlideShow Maker?  1. A simple display format—just the photo with the caption
• Movie Studio

  58 answers, most recent on 6/20/2020

  RE: Movie Edit Pro is NOT using my graphics card!
  @DominikStrycharski Hi   . . . . I bought this PC with this GPU to be able to really work on videos . . . . Did you read the Movie Edit Pro system requirements before purchase? . . . . "Serious" means in this case a 15 mins video for 3 music
• Movie Studio

  58 answers, most recent on 6/20/2020

  RE: Movie Edit Pro is NOT using my graphics card!
  @DominikStrycharski Hi   . . . . I bought this PC with this GPU to be able to really work on videos . . . . Did you read the Movie Edit Pro system requirements before purchase? . . . . "Serious" means in this case a 15 mins video for 3 music tracks
• Video Pro X

  133 answers, most recent on 8/18/2020

  RE: VPX12 New Version now out - New Features - Old bugs?
  @browj2, @emmrecs, @CubeAce Hi Update to VPX 12 - no issues with crashing, still won't start if High Performance GPU selected - I suspect this issue is not a program issue as I have seen some odd activity with Windows Software Protection - requires
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 5/16/2020

  Can't find collage basics in MEP Plus 2020?
  Hi, In my old version of MEP I was able to make collages. I upgraded to MEP Plus 2020 and now can't find collage templates. From what I gleaned off Google they should be under Templates/Design Elements but they're not there. I've attached a screen
• Movie Studio

  45 answers, most recent on 7/26/2020

  RE: Instagram Story render bug
  Hi Ray, Digression: I noticed you have 200 tracks specified and wonder if you ever approach that many? My default is 32 and it’s rare I need even that many except for complex collages. Anyone know if that setting has any significant effect on memory
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 4/24/2020

  RE: Is my result a typical benchmark? (UHD 630 HW encode)
  @Craigster You are asking some useful questions. Please see my results in this page of this topic:- https://www.magix.info/us/forum/36-hours-of-testing-mep-premier-settings-for-playback-and-export--1241169/ If primarily using and rendering in H.264,
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . John EB has the same view on playback performance or not so I can't comment on that at this time . . . . With respect to the playback performance, when working with 4K video, the results tend to be mixed depending on the
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 3/24/2020

  RE: Recommendations/Suggestions please for export of short video clips
  @Xenofex2 Hi George . . . . when we purchase the next upgrade, does one then have to reinstall the WhatsApp template in the 'latest version' or is it automatically updated? . . . . . It should stay there, however I would recommend you keep a backup
• Photostory

  One answer, on 2/26/2020

  RE: Picture in Picture facility in Photostory deluxe version 19.0.2.46
  @wvonk When you installed the new version of Photostory, did you also select the option under Help>Free Download? That adds many "extras", including a number of Design>Collage elements which I think is what you are referring to as "Picture in
• Video Pro X

  One answer, on 2/19/2020

  collages
  The Collages section in Design Elements has gone mysteriously AWOL. It was there, I think, until the last update. Now it has disappeared from the menu. Any one else notice this?
• Video Pro X

  8 answers, most recent on 2/17/2020

  RE: Is there a "tiles effect" for clips?
  @phonebooth I understand and share your frustration. Video Pro X, is stil quite rigid compared with other alternatives (but, is cheaper...) I came to this post seekin for info on plugins, and if third party plugins made for industry leading
• Video Pro X

  8 answers, most recent on 2/17/2020

  RE: Is there a "tiles effect" for clips?
  @phonebooth Hi, MEP/VPX don't have a tiling feature. However, there are a couple of ways to get tiling without too much effort. After that, then you can modify and/or create your own and save it as a collage. I noted that the examples that you
• Video Pro X

  8 answers, most recent on 2/17/2020

  RE: Is there a "tiles effect" for clips?
  @johnebaker Hi John, thanks for answering so quickly! I realize that I haven't explained explicitely enough what I am looking for: My aim is not to arrange various different clips/photos on one screen (like with collages or PIP), but to break up one
• Video Pro X

  8 answers, most recent on 2/17/2020

  RE: Is there a "tiles effect" for clips?
  @phonebooth Hi I would suggest you look at the Collages in VPX to do what you require. Creating your own is also quite easy, stack the required number of images/video clips on the timeline and use Effects, View & animation, Size & Position
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/7/2020

  RE: Titles on Collage
  I am also unsuccessful in using the ungroup with the collage. It seems that if I'm using a template, it isn't going to let me edit elements within that template. However; it lets me create titles all day long; just won't show them. 😡
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/7/2020

  RE: Titles on Collage
  Sorry, I meant to include this and got ahead of myself... Movie Edit Pro Plus V 19.0.2.49. I've watched yours, and other users tutorials... thank you... but I can't get the collage to show the title. I've tried a number of different approaches; most
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/7/2020

  RE: Titles on Collage
  @Margaret-Keckler Hi, Please indicate which version of MEP you are using (Help, About) and whether you have basic, Plus or Premium. With a collage, the images are moved to higher numbered tracks, as you have undoubtedly seen, and everything is
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/7/2020

  Titles on Collage
  I'm a newbie learning... I haven't run across an answer to this, and I can't seem to get it to work as I'd like: I have 5 photos assembled as a collage. That operation works fine. I want to put a title on top of the last photo of the collage only.
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 1/31/2020

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus won't open
  Ray, one more thing please? Now that I re-downloaded, I can't find my plug-ins (for instance none of my collage options are there). Could you please point me in the right direction?
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 1/18/2020

  RE: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2070 (MSI VENTUS GP EDITION)
  @videomagic Hi VPX can use an Nvidia (GTX1050 and above) to accelerate HEVC (only) encoding in the same way that the Intel GPU can, but it can also provide a huge boost in the acceleration of the timeline preview with HEVC (only) when there are