• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 12/23/2014

  RE: Xara 3D - text colour
  Hi Terry, I missed the Edit. Not enough coffee by that time or I saw the message just after the first post and didn't go back to read it again. As far as I can tell, the idea is to create a title, so MEP does not bring in the background. We
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 10/7/2014

  RE: Water Colour
  e.g. NewBlueFX Cartoonr (free) Original: Effect "Cel Animation": Effect "Subtle":  
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 10/11/2014

  RE: Movie Edit Pro masks
  Hi, You lost me a bit here. There are different ways to apply masks. The first is simply to apply one to a video clip using the Load Mask from the effects popdown. This mask is simply a black and white or gray-shaded image, where the white
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 2/1/2016

  RE: How to mask green screen effect
  Hi, Here is another way, quick and dirty, especially if the zone to be protected can be covered easily by an existing mask. A mask you would need for your shape, could very easily be created within MEP by placing a black swatch in track 3 and
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 9/20/2014

  RE: Editing 'Carousel' 3D text
  Hi Terry, It looked complicated at first so I did some research and watched some tutorials from this list. It's actually quite easy, for the basic things. I wrote this before trying out the shapes tutorial. I learned that Enter is not the right
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 9/20/2014

  RE: Editing 'Carousel' 3D text
  Hi John, I'll take another look at this sometime. Note also this from an earlier post of mine: No special control charactes appear necessary. The key point is to select each segment of text and apply options to each of them separately. In this
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 9/20/2014

  RE: Editing 'Carousel' 3D text
  Solved! I think. Using 3DMaker, the Carousel title comes in as Abcdef. A,c and ef revolve together, and b and d revolve together, at different speeds. It's as though there is an effect on each sequence or letter. Thus I stopped the animation,
• Video Pro X

  8 answers, most recent on 9/15/2014

  RE: Video Pro X6 and Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Your link just takes me to the regular Magix site (Canadian and American are the same). There is no mention of the original price, only the 129.99$ for Premium,  99.99$ for Plus, and 49.99$ regularly 149.99$ for the Basic. I received a 59.99$
• Movie Studio

  18 answers, most recent on 9/16/2014

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 2015 Compatability
  Hi Peter, Movie objects (Nested sequences) according to the Pro site says: "With MAGIX Video Pro X6 entire video sequences can become objects in a project. That means that complete movies can be used in other movies as objects. These objects
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 9/3/2014

  Quick Question - Project Filesize Limitations
  Is it unrealistic to expect Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus to be capable of coping with a 63MB project file ? I have one which takes about 5-10 minutes to load. The tracks eventually display but the visualisation in the preview window does not appear
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 8/29/2014

  RE: VEP 2015 out in Germany?
  Hi Jeff From the German site:- " MAGIX video deluxe 2015 premium boasts all the benefits of the plus version and a unique package of 3 exclusive red giant supplementary programs. Top features: True 64-bit application with unique
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 7/24/2014

  RE: Error when importing AVI files
  Hi I am guessing you have Windows 8 - can you play the AVI in Windows Media player or does it error? If it errors see this article If it plays OK then use a prgogram such as GSpot or MediaInfo to analyse one of AVI clips to find out
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 5/18/2014

  RE: KF animating challenge
  Hi John,   Thanks for that. Yes, I too often use symbols which don't need rotation. A plain solid circle is the obvious example. Even circles with simple icons like these can be useful:   But I'm really focusing here on tracks which
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 4/3/2014

  RE: Pixelan Creativease
  Hi John, I'm making some progress thanks to your excellent tutorial. One thing I really would like is to use the animated spice masks without any effect. That would be a much easier way of quickly applying that result than by using a mask and
• Photostory

  2 answers, most recent on 4/5/2014

  RE: Is there a way to zoom out to black?
  Hi NancyandBob, Below is how to use the Size & Position effect along with keyframing to zoom out. See the first image. Go to the timeline mode and click on the object (photo) that you want to zoom out; Set the playback marker at the
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 4/3/2014

  RE: Pixelan Creativease
  Hi Terry, You can apply the Spice effects without touching the keyframes. If you use the Spice effect from the Choose Spice File button, then no presets are applied and, depending on the type of effect, the Spice effect may not be turned on,
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 3/13/2014

  RE: Finished 3D movie edited in MEP 2013 Plus
  It took almost 24 hours for the YT file to upload and process, and I had to do it twice. My first attempt was with an mpeg4 file I had encoded from the master file, and when I played it back on YT, some of the sound was missing. Turns out one of
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 3/13/2014

  Finished 3D movie edited in MEP 2013 Plus
  Hi Gang...Just finished my first 3D full length movie and it was totally edited in MEP 2013 Plus and animated in iClone 5. I would have used 2014, but the bug fixes weren't addressed in time to get started. I'm planning a sequel and hopefully 2014
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 3/9/2014

  RE: MEP 2013 / 2014 - Favoured Settings
  Whalebat, It's yeses -- and nos. When you choose the overall settings for a movie, [E] key sort cut, there is an option to have those settings be the default for any new project. Your effects on individual objects can be saved for future use
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 2/18/2014

  RE: Travel Route Animation: Experimenting with options
  Hi Terry, Yes, the file was mp4. Maybe this is my problem with the tutorial as well. My third try with different export parameters but still mp4 gives a green screen. In the tutorials upload instructions, it says that mp4 is a valid format. I
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 2/18/2014

  RE: Travel Route Animation: Experimenting with options
  Hi John, Yes, GE takes a lot of beating for this stuff! Thanks for the tip about track colour alternating, I'll try that too. I wrote a few macros (with Macro Express Pro) to help with some of the grunt work. 1. Copy a PNG 120 times and
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 2/17/2014

  RE: Blurring or somehow removing the head of an actor in underlying video so I can place another "head" in it's place
  AA4362, You might be able to get what you want by combining two effects -- pixelate (or better simply blur) the background face and then overlay ;your foreground head. I think there is not way to completely eliminate any background head showing,
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2014

  RE: Travel Route Animation: MEP 17 v MEP 2014
  Hi John, I think the solution is to go via a PDF. All of my contributions to the Tutorial section were PDFs, with any linked videos using YT. Even a tutorial which lent itself to being entirely a video was 'embedded' within an introductory
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 2/20/2014

  Travel Route Animation: MEP 17 v MEP 2014
  I'm almost certain that TRA in MEP 17 allowed the use of animated symbols? Like moving boots, wheels, skis, etc. MEP 2014 doesn't have that feature. It appears to use a radically different approach, with 120 variations of the animation object,