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Thank you. I guess like anything it's a matter of getting used to the colour borders! I have just tried again the trails of Video Pro x and MEP Premium and to be honest I didn't see any difference in the 3 tracks I was doing. Mind you, no effects or

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 9/28/2017

RE: All Imported Video with Anti-Cropping Applied

Hi David Try "File>Settings>Reset program to defaults" You can reset cropping on individual objects by right clicking the object and deselecting "Border cropping adjustment" If it happens on all objects then in the top menu "Effects>Movie

Movie Studio

18 answers, most recent on 9/5/2017

RE: AHER (another hardware encoding rant)

MPEG4 and MPEG2 - with 2 options. From the MEP manual:- Smart Rendering: With Smart Rendering you can considerably reduce the encodingprocessing strain for MPEG files. With the production of MPEG files, only those partsof the movie that were changed

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 7/31/2017

RE: Unexpected black border

Have you tried making the logos as transparent background PNG files? I have now, and the borders are still there! Good idea though, thanks .... - Mike -

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 7/31/2017

RE: Unexpected black border

Hi Mike Have you tried making the logos as transparent background PNG files? Added: Just tried this with jpg and png in VPX 9 and MEP Premium - jpg gives border top/bottom, PNG no border on export to mp4 in both programs. Looks like a something

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 7/31/2017

RE: Unexpected black border

Hi Mike I have had this issue when trying to create a logo there were 2 issues a single pixel border top and bottom which was cropped out in PSP , this still gave occasional issues with the black line on resizing in MEP. Once I made the image x and

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 7/31/2017

Unexpected black border

I have prepared a couple of captured logos for use in VPX9 such as to have a white background with no border pixels at all. I make up a test project withTrack 1 = full frame white imageTrack 2 = first logo, resized smaller than actualTrack 3 =

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 6/13/2019

[Closed] Image Objects failures

This could well be an unforseen consequence of the wholesale HDP and HO deletions I described earlier. But I'd appreciate others checking that I haven't instead stumbled across a bug not of my own making please. I'm having trouble playing (or

Photostory

19 answers, most recent on 12/31/2018

RE: burning DVD - not recognized by DVD player

Thank you for your reply - here is more information based on the link you sent me ... - I am using Photostory Deluxe 2017 version 16.1.3.61, I have updated everything I could find which includes the update within the software and burn routines

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 6/11/2017

VPX/MEP - effect to handle video filmed in portrait mode

Hi, Was I dreaming or was there not a new feature advertised for MEP 2017 a while back that would take a video shot in portrait mode, copy it to another track, and resize the one on track one to full screen and blur it. Aha, I found it in the new

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 6/6/2017

RE: [Closed] Frame rate change after export

Ok exporting to avi had no sync issues but the playback was absolutely horrible, stuttering, flashing borders on the edges of text annotations. The software is really good but it has exporting issues, it can't just be me. Will try again with

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 5/25/2017

RE: De-interlacing Question

Hi . . . . Does it mean that these are resolutions that can actually be displayed on this TV? . . . According to the top line of the manual page you posted they are the resolutions the TV will display depending on the input being used by for

Other products

One answer, on 4/24/2017

Border around text, learning Movie Studio 14

Hi guys, Today I started to learn to use Movie Studio 14. I started with a concept from my head of a little video intro. I added a title to that video, which is moving in an animation, from the bottom to the top. The next step, which I wanted to

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/12/2017

RE: Off to a rocky start... Codex compatibility

John, I changed the profile to 4000000 bits and got very good results. It played on all my devices. The clip was originally 4:3 and the result was a wide screen video with side borders. Very good. So I'll use this and the original template you

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/12/2017

RE: Off to a rocky start... Codex compatibility

Thank you, John. Now as to the last question. some of the early editors stretched 4:3 when using a wide screen profile. I did notice the Movie Studio Platinum just puts side borders on the clip and the viewing area is 4:3. The Galaxy S-7 treats a

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/12/2017

RE: Off to a rocky start... Codex compatibility

John, two questions... 1. How large should a file be for internet use, say a short clip, two minutes long. I used your suggested setting and ended up with 235 mb. Quite large... This with 8,000,000 bitrate. This is 3x as large as I'm used to. but

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 3/11/2017

RE: Difference between Trial versions?

Hi, I don't know what you mean by "no trimming window for imported files." Files can be trimmed before and after importing in both products. I use VPX on both a Surface Pro when travelling, but mainly on my desktop with 2 large monitors. There is a

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/12/2017

RE: Off to a rocky start... Codex compatibility

John EB I saved a 4:3 with the internet 1280 x 720 30p profile. I can live with the side borders! It created a huge file, however. Do you think I can modify the template for that profile to create a movie that has a smaller file size. Any thoughts?

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/12/2017

Off to a rocky start... Codex compatibility

I have accomplished much with Movie Studio 13 and moved forward to 14 with a great amount of optimism... There are a lot of changes in 14 and the documentation is sparse... also the defaults are different. I think I'm getting used to the placement

Movie Studio

One answer, on 2/23/2017

RE: Camera photos

Hi I am assuming that you mean a photo which was taken in portrait mode when imported into Movie Edit Pro (MEP) is on its side in landscape mode and when you rotate it to the correct orientation black bars appear on both sides and the image is full

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 5/26/2017

RE: Using clip´s with diffrent size or fps

I ran a similar test a few months ago with MEP 2016. MEP wants to expand the smaller images to fill the frame. But if you go into the size effect and set the size to Original, the smaller videos will shrink with black borders. As far as frame rate

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 2/22/2017

RE: VPX(8) Patch 15.0.3.138 released

Hi, I much prefer VPX8 over VPX6 and I would (and did) upgrade; but that is me. There have been many useful features added in both VPX7 and VPX8. One main one is the graph under Brightness/Contrast for using the curves to make adjustments. Another

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 2/22/2017

RE: VPX(8) Patch 15.0.3.138 released

Hi, I much prefer VPX8 over VPX6 and I would (and did) upgrade; but that is me. There have been many useful features added in both VPX7 and VPX8. One main one is the graph under Brightness/Contrast for using the curves to make adjustments. Another

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 2/8/2017

RE: Border Effects to use a Portrait image in a wide/full screen video

I don't have 2017 so I can only guess. What do you see on the timeline? Was a second image added? If so and grouped, then ungroup. Also, in your image, look lower down to the keyframe window. You should see some effects there. Drag to make the