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Greetings, MS2025 is starting to annoy me. For the past couple of weeks or so I've been editing some of my nieces GoPro MOVs (I think - Cineform anyway) videos. This has been going well with no real hassle except for some stange reason occasionally

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 11/25/2024

“No playback device activated”

Hi, I have recently re-installed one of my older versions of Movie Edit Pro, onto my new PC. At the moment I can load video files into the editor, but when I click play, it comes up with a message saying: “No playback device activated! Please

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 6/5/2025

Worked fine …until app wouldn’t open

Problem: Application was working fine until it wouldn’t open one day. Only see 2-5 seconds of a spinning blue circle then nothing. App does not show in processes. Intel core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHZ, 8 GB Ram 1066 MHz, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1650 4 GB,

Video Pro X

32 answers, most recent on 1/18/2025

"Missing" audio in VPX16

(The thread title is deliberately cryptic!) but I wanted to seek the wisdom of fellow-users of this software about a very strange problem! I recently needed to digitise, for a client, a VHS tape. Following the demise of my computer which included a

Photostory

7 answers, most recent on 2/26/2025

Video does not import smoothly (+ sound)

Greetings, I recently bought a new smartphone (Samsung). When I import a video that I filmed with my smartphone into a story, the video does not play smoothly (the image repeatedly freezes for a moment). When I put music under the video, the music

Video Pro X

62 answers, most recent on 5/15/2025

RE: Should I choose Video Pro X or Vegas Pro?

Dear friends, Thanks for further comments. I have just tried to post at the Vegas Pro forum. Reyfox. My settings when I tried to export. I hardly remember. The result was an .m2v file with 30 Mbps. CubeAce. Vegas having more possibilities to confuse

Video Pro X

33 answers, most recent on 7/15/2025

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

Hi, again I went to evolve and see that "without even eliminating" the divided clip, in the first interval the VPX16 when eliminating the effects, as the SPF interface shows, its keyframes are no longer visible, but "their position is not

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 2/16/2025

RE: Stabilising software

@me_again Hi Andy AFAIK there is no stabilisation product that would do this. Try the following - using Ctrl + drag to duplicate the video clip to a lower track, stabilise the duplicate and use a layer mask with a feathered edge to 'blend' in the

Movie Studio

27 answers, most recent on 4/20/2025

RE: Activate Mpeg 4 Codec in Movie Studio 2025 Platinum

Can I just mention something & I've no idea if it makes any difference. I too have no problem with that file, I tested it in MMS & got a single video track just like @CubeAce shows. I then tested it in VP to see if it told me anything more,

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 11/16/2024

RE: Edit pro 17 rotation/mirror effect

Thanks for your replies. I might be best if i explain what process i follow. I have used Magix for about 20 years, I think 4 different versions. i download photos and videos to my Windows 7 PC into photo gallery. I then import into the Magix

Movie Studio

51 answers, most recent on 12/14/2024

RE: How to burn files to BD with menus but without having to re-encode?

@jak.willis Hi . . . . So is there no way at all to simply burn the files to disc with menus? . . . . No. , , , , Should I try with the MainConcept codec? . . . . As the Smart Copy and Smart rendering did not work, the video files on the timeline

Movie Studio

66 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

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

@clement5 When exporting a standard 720x480 NTSC video with 4:3 aspect ratio, the result is a letterboxed video Once you've opened it for editing, the "NTSC" becomes irrelevant. It's just a set of numbers. I get no black bars on any edge when

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: 2026 Manual doesn't agree with program - Split Photostory, etc.

@doane HI You can ignore that 'error' message it means there is no set GPU which can hardware accelerate the encoding of the video. The CPU will do all the processing and encoding, however it will take considerably longer to complete. However if the

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

RE: Help with Recommending PC Specs

@DIYMark Hi IMHO the minimum you need to do is upgrade the Nvidia graphics card graphics card, the Intel CPU has a UHD 630 iGPU and as a minimum I would recommend a RTX2060 minimum, which is capable of handling the 4K UHD video from the Sony

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 1/11/2026

RE: Very high RAM usage even with a few slides

@loos_5 Hi Have you checked your Windows installion is not having issues with RAM clean-up/flushing when software releases memory. We need more information to help diagnosis of the issue: The specification of your computer system including Windows

Movie Studio

37 answers, most recent on 6/7/2025

RE: Yoo Hoo! Here comes Magix Video Deluxe!

@Reyfox Thanks for your reply, you make some interesting comments - I especially take your point about ProDAD. "As for beta testing, no matter the software you buy, that is what you will be, paying to beta test" True but it doesn't mean I have to

Video Pro X

25 answers, most recent on 2/11/2026

RE: Cannot start VPX17 by double-clicking on MVP file

As indicated by Marc, the solutions given by @kPeiffer here, seem to work, but I haven't yet tried any of them. For VPX17, here is what the changes to the registry are as per the proposed reg file: Windows Registry Editor Version

Video Pro X

165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

RE: [Closed] Website Observation

@Gid Hi, I was going to mention that as you had brought it up. As far as I know, the programs are supposed to detect the format of the first video clip and propose a change to the project settings. For the AR, that doesn't work. I think that we

Video Pro X

33 answers, most recent on 7/15/2025

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

Hi Note that within the original question, it involves a complex project with intervals with several keyframes, hoping not for a miracle, but for something productive, agile that eliminates ghosts and maintains cleanliness and referential integrity.

Movie Studio

46 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

RE: Stereo not supported - burning disc

Thanks John for the thought, however I have tested one of my drone videos that is recorded with no soundtrack whatsoever, and I have the same error with MMS 2024. I keep searching and trying to find a solution somewhere but I'm not having any luck.

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 4/26/2026

RE: Video Deluxe 2026

@david-again @AAProds Hi, Magix dropped the entry-level/basic version a year ago or so, it just disappeared from the list available for purchase. That was the only version that was stunted. Plus and Premium were, as far as I can recall and from what

Video Easy

21 answers, most recent on 6/7/2024

Video Easy no longer recording audio in stereo

I got Video Easy a few months ago because I am a beginner with no knowledge of editing videos and need something simple. When I first used it for the first two videos doing voice over it was fine. Now all of the sudden is no longer records audio in

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 7/7/2024

Movie Studio 2025 Suite and Stereoscopic 3D

Magix Studio 2025 Suite no longer imports Sony MTS/MVC stereoscopic video files?

Video Pro X

10 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Programme freezes

Thanks for your time, you are right, the video is from a Canon video camera. The audio is there at the start of the clip, it is when I move the slider to get to the end of the video (or further along) that it goes wrong, like wise if it does start