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Taking a screenshot (photo of your display) is a Windows function.I believe Windows10/11 has a screenshot utility built in, then attach the image/photo file in the comment.

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 7/10/2023

RE: [Solved] Apply effect only to certain area

@Christian-Schwaderer Hi, yes, Add an effect to your video clip, click on the 3 dots top right of the effects control window - Load Effects mask, this will add a B/W mask from a pre made selection or you can create one of your own in a photo

Photostory

One answer, on 2/6/2024

RE: Problems inserting transitions in slideshows

@Dennis-Ferrell Hi . . . . insert a transition ... between two photos in my slideshow,... moves the photo and all following photos backwards along my timeline a few seconds. . . . . That is normal for many transitions which require an overlap, eg a

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 5/27/2023

RE: [Solved] Camera Pan and Zoom effect

@Huckball1959 Hi, yes completely different programs & if you upgraded from Vegas Movie Studio to Magix Movie Studio you likely fell for the Magix lie when 'upgrading'. You didn't upgrade you bought a completely different program, In MMS there's

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 11/10/2023

Collage with FIVE photos

I'm back... I just did this the other day BUT.... I have five photos. I am trying to create a collage using what I'll call the SWEEP and rotate out COLLAGE. It is in the first row of FIVE and it is the THIRD option on that row. I have the five

Other products

One answer, on 2/4/2024

Photo Manager - show all pictures/videos

I am a dedicated Picasa 3 user, but want to switch to a more modern up to date Photo Manager. I am testing Magix Photo Manager Deluxe in hopes that it can be my Picasa replacement app. I have thousands of pictures and videos spread across multiple

Movie Studio

90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track

@Gid Yes, that's it. @browj2 I don't follow. It is illogical to me that something I do on one track will affect another track that isn't touching it. I don't want the program to try to guess what I'm doing: The total length of my images is too long

Music Maker

One answer, on 10/17/2024

Trimming music samples

Hello, I just downloaded Music Maker 2025 and for some reason it wont let me precisely trim a part of my mix that I want to trim. It's only letting me trim in the 4/4 format where as I want to be able trim at any part of the vocals or instrumentals

Movie Studio

90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track

@Can-Dive Hi, Something seems strange. Must be my memory. I seem to recall that I never liked Scene Overview for some reason. Now it looks like a very good choice for rearranging things rather than Storyboard. Storyboard may be more convenient for

Xara Designer Pro

10 answers, most recent on 3/31/2023

RE: [Solved] Editing Bitmaps - Outside software

@Kelley-Kuhlman I don't have XDP but I do have and use Affinity Photo, versions 1 and 2. I'm not certain this will be helpful to you, therefore, but which installer version of Affinity Photo 2 do you have? The original release used an

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

Your dog must be AI by now, it's been around for ages, John! 😀 After and before photos below Never been able to wrap my head around After then Before... and I even did Japanese at school!

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 11/23/2024

RE: Need Help Understanding Basic Video Editing in MAGIX Software

@dianna-hdionna Hi @emmrecs mentioned the Tutorials section of the forum - for Movie Studio and Video Pro X there is a list of 'how to' tutorials here. If you have Photostory, in the Tutorials section Jeff mentioned - select the Photo & Graphics

Other products

7 answers, most recent on 3/15/2024

RE: Export Photos and Video without Videoshow

@JAM Hi, No. An Album is actually a project file. It contains no photos or videos, just pointers to them. It can be opened in any of Magix video editors - Video Pro X, Magix Movie Studio or the old Movie Edit Pro, PhotoStory. Yes, just open the

Movie Studio

84 answers, most recent on 8/5/2024

RE: Linking "videos" or "projects" question

@Eric-Elliott Hi Eric, At the risk of re-re-repeating myself and others, including the manual, a Project has a minimum of 1 Movie. Each Movie can be considered as a separate timeline. Look at the tab for the Movie - it probably has the name of your

Photostory

11 answers, most recent on 1/7/2024

RE: SOS!!!!

Thanks for the Help. Can you tell me how I get the Start marker to position on the slide I have clicked on? It starts OK, but as I update photos with titles - it says on a previous photo, and then gets further and further behind.

Movie Studio

89 answers, most recent on 5/5/2025

RE: Upon importing my photos, they turn to black and white or all black

@Iris-Willis There's a plugin for GIMP to batch convert but I don't have it installed. You might be better off using this online app. https://picflow.com/convert/heic-to-jpg I just tried it & it seems very simple, drag the files into the window

Movie Studio

20 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

RE: Exporting to mp4 desyncs the sound...

@AAProds, @Richard-Merriman Hi . . . . Re variable frame rates, the video was in sync on the timeline. Why would it be out of sync after export? . . . . In a nutshell because you are taking a video clip whose framerate is varying, ie Variable frame

Movie Studio

43 answers, most recent on 7/18/2024

RE: Can not trim or delete portions of audio

@Eric-Elliott Hi Eric, The timeline is measured in hours, minutes, seconds and frames - hh:mm:ss:ff. There are no fractions of a second, only frames. Still images are as long as you want them to be - meaning showing for x seconds or y frames - you

Other products

One answer, on 5/4/2023

[Solved] Vegas Pro 19 - Idle Installation

Hello. This is my first post to the MAGIX community. I hope that it is well received.Recently Vegas 19 on my computer would no longer launch and I wasn't sure why. It had been working fine for me until yesterday. I thought I would try uninstalling

Movie Studio

90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track

@Can-Dive Hi . . . . misprint in the Photostory 2025 manual . . . . IIRC older versions of PS, pre Infusion engine (?), did loop between the set markers. The track 5 as an audio track is for MMS and VPX. PS uses track 4. . . . . Why restrict

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

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

@doane Hi, Hmm. After going through the following, I can see that a new user can have problems understanding how it all works. I should probably do some tutorials on Photostory. Anyway, please read page 26 in the manual. Photostory can have multiple

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

RE: Intro/Outro Templates

Hi, This is now resolved. I hadn't done the "install extra content" step. I seem to recall trying this but it must have timed out (i don't have the best internet connection). In my haste, I had forgotten all about that step. Now fully resolved, I

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@Former user I should have been more clear, the focal point was to be the handwritten animated text, and I should have made it go slower. I will if I ever get around to doing the Africa videos (Super8 Sound + photos). John CB

Video Pro X

11 answers, most recent on 12/30/2024

RE: Coming from Movie Studio Platinum 15

@Johan_Hackman Hi, VPX is an advanced version of Magix Movie Studio. There is a comparison table of features on the Magix site. PhotoStory is a stunted version of Movie Studio - 8 tracks, no track headers, less tools, made for those creating movies