• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 2/21/2023

  RE: Karaoke: how do I do Text underlining or colorfilling for a set time?
  @Former user @john-x Hi, Yes, without the image... Trying again: I made the white mask shorter from left to right. Easiest is to just move it to the right instead. John CB
• Video Pro X

  65 answers, most recent on 4/7/2024

  RE: VPX prices until April 9, 2024
  @browj2 Vegas everyone knows. It's been extensively pirated all over the place. So an awful lot of people know about it. I think that the Humble Bundle is a gateway to getting legal software with an upgrade path for a cheap price. Vegas has always
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 8/14/2023

  RE: MS2023: area outside of the viewable screen; change color
  @nhong-xiong  I want to change it because I want to better see where the viewable area ends.  Agree. It's a real pain trying to see the edge of the movie verses the surround. @browj2 John it's the blank space around the the actual movie. The space
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 3/22/2023

  RE: Movie Studio 2023
  @Tara_888 I'm not sure where you got the "multiply mask" term from, but be aware that the Sony Movie Studio no longer exists. The "Movie Studio" that we now refer to is actually the, now renamed, Magix Movie Edit Pro. I'll leave it up to you to
• Video Pro X

  165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

  RE: [Closed] Website Observation
  Where was I? Oh yeah, @Gid I'm pretty sure tracks/objects used to be able to be grouped & using SPR would affect both in unison? Yes. That changed in VPX13, I believe, when Magix overhauled Size/Position, combining it with Rotation to get SPR,
• Video Pro X

  165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

  RE: [Closed] Website Observation
  @Reyfox Hi Tony, Where I think you have a strong point is with VPX having movies within movies.  Not just that, but simply multiple movies in a project like DaVinci and Premiere Pro. Then the nesting feature. I thought that I had mentioned about the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @CubeAce Hi, yep I did that for yrs, remember I've had MEP since 2004, I used to use a mask with it to limit the pixelation, 👍 In 2018 YT took away monetisation of my videos because I only had about 700 subs, you need 1000 to monetise, I wasn't
• Movie Studio

  32 answers, most recent on 1/28/2023

  RE: Plug In's For MEP2016 Plus
  @CarpentersMate Emboldened by @johnebaker 's effort I downloaded a couple of YouTube clips from the google drive link in one of the channels links and just applied de-saturation / brightness / contrast, to the main video, jiggled it a bit with Size
• Movie Studio

  26 answers, most recent on 10/27/2022

  RE: Trying to work out how to do motion tracking (blur out an object)
  OK. Here we go. The flicker toward the end is when I changed to a different masking image. I left a second or so at the start to show what was being masked. Nick
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 4/12/2023

  RE: Imported videos have no sound.
  I am currently using Vegas Pro 18 and find that works just fine over my copy of VMS 16. Is there that much difference between versions 19 and 20 @CubeAce  I remember some of the changes that I thought were important: From Vegas 18 to 19, Magix
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 1/23/2023

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot in "Effects," Movie Studio 2022 Platinum
  @johnebaker @AAProds Hi, The goal of CZN is simply to select a box and it puts that at full screen. Any other proportion could not be at full screen. Thus, what would the program do? Put it at the centre, top, bottom, left or right? It's already
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 3/22/2023

  RE: Movie Studio 2023
  @Tara_888 Hi. The Topic @browj2 is referring to may be mine when I first attempted this and can be found here. MMS 2023 is not based on anything Vegas edit wise and is a completely different workflow. However, I feel once anyone gets used to the
• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 2/21/2023

  RE: Karaoke: how do I do Text underlining or colorfilling for a set time?
  @john-x I've done another with an MP4 B/W mask moving L to R creating the reveal, this B/W mask can be added to any text & stretched to time length, I would prob make a long one tho, maybe 1min, then it'll be getting shrunk to suit rather than
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 2/16/2024

  RE: Edge Sharpening
  @AAProds Hi Al, Here is what the manual says: Apply to: This allows you to set just how much the sharpness or blur should be applied to surfaces or edges. This enables you to effectively reduce ongoing image distortions (noise). If you leave it at
• Video Pro X

  65 answers, most recent on 4/7/2024

  RE: VPX prices until April 9, 2024
  @browj2 I never underestimate the skills of any editor. Nor assume that the tools that are present in any editor are beyond their skill level. While these may be enough for some, it's not enough for everyone. That is why more comprehensive tools
• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 2/21/2023

  RE: Karaoke: how do I do Text underlining or colorfilling for a set time?
  @john-x Set the length of the text to 3 seconds, then use Chroma key on the text so it shows a colour below it, you could move the colour using keyframes left to right or vice versa, or place a black or white image in between the text & colour,
• Video Pro X

  80 answers, most recent on 6/3/2023

  RE: Video Pro X and Vegas Pro exports
  @doug_mccarron Hi Doug, What was your solution? @ericlnz Hi Eric, I await your new post (in a couple of days). @Former user Hi Gid, Context is important. I look at can it be done using the tools that we have, meaning MMS or VPX? How? If not, with
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 10/12/2022

  RE: Blur sensitive information
  @LFCS Hi, Add Gaussian blur (or any effect) to your media, Top right Load Effects Mask, Use Size/Position/Rotation to resize & position that mask, If you want to blur multiple parts of the screen, Export that frame from the timeline as a jpeg
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @johnebaker Hi John EB, Yes, but... My last comments on this. Overlays, top to bottom, etc. - what we actually have is back to front, not top to bottom or bottom to top. So to explain Magix MMS/VPX method, an object with the lower number track,
• Other products

  5 answers, most recent on 3/6/2023

  RE: Poor picture quality on an SD TV
  @jak.willis I think we sometimes forget the actual images we once saw on cathode ray tube TVs with often poor colour rendering from most makes, and the mesh / mask behind the screen to separate the beam to the points of the screen with their
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 3/22/2023

  RE: Movie Studio 2023
  I am lost in MS 2023, MS use to act like Vegas Pro Vegas Movie Studio Platinum has been discontinued. Vegas Software Team concentrates their resources on Vegas Edit/Pro. The current Magix Movie Studio is a completely different program that just
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 1/16/2023

  RE: Pixelization Effect(ish)/Cookie Cutter Question
  @JonM Hi. I used a similar method to the one @browj2 describes in the video below. You get a reasonable idea from 31 minutes onward in the video for a minute or two in the video. Auto tracking in the the latest releases of Movie Studio or VPX is far
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 1/23/2023

  RE: Camera/Zoom shot in "Effects," Movie Studio 2022 Platinum
  @art-l So this is the shot I'm working with and want to zoom. I can get it to zoom the way I want it to. the problem is this. The black outline is what is selected to zoom. The red outline is what I want to zoom.  Art, assuming you meant "can't" 😉,
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 3/26/2023

  RE: Blurring Background
  The automatic tracking of at least people and animals should finally be included in MAGIX software. There are competitors and competing products that can already do this. At least one is even free.However, the free one is from the company