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@Pieter-Muller Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. First, you say you have version 3. Did you mean version 13, which is the latest? Your post about the database piqued my curiosity and I attempted to do some research about this on my own

Music Maker

7 answers, most recent on 2/6/2024

RE: [Solved] Premium

@BriceMD Hi . . . I purchase the Music Maker 2024 Premium, will I be able to export my songs as MP3? . . . . For the purchased editions, yes, with the caveat that you have Windows Media Player installed - this costs you nothing. The free version

SOUND FORGE

11 answers, most recent on 7/3/2024

RE: [Solved] Looking for spectroscope window on recently purchased SF 17

@bcsound To my understanding Sound Forge Audio Studio 12 was some kind of unique version with a different user interface. It could very well be the case, that this visualizer isn't available in version 17. Or maybe you need the 17 Pro version and

Samplitude

2 answers, most recent on 11/10/2024

[Solved] Upgrade to Samplitude X8: deceptive advertising?

In November this year, I decided to take up the very attractive upgrade offer from Samplitude 2023 to Samplitude X8, for the price of €29.95.A big miscalculation! In addition to the already eight lost instruments resulting from my 2020 update, it

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 1/25/2024

RE: [Solved] What are Blocked Tracks? How do I unblock them?

@BJsBus Hi, When I try to create a slideshow using the Wizard Slideshow Maker I immediately see an error message: "One or more tracks are blocked in the current movie. Please unblock the respective tracks so that the Slideshow Maker can be used

SOUND FORGE

One answer, on 3/23/2024

RE: [Solved] why does it say I'm Not Logged In as Administrator, when I am?

@jeanius123 Are you talking about the same problem as described here? https://www.magix.info/us/forum/program-will-not-open-unless-it-is-run-as-administrator--1207220/#ca1396227

SOUND FORGE

4 answers, most recent on 7/8/2024

RE: [Solved] SF18 crashes when loading a file.

You could try resetting Sound Forg14 and/or 18 in the 'File' menu.. however I would surmise it is a PC related issue. Some folks have had issues with MP3 files and resetting usually resolves that issue. There are no common problems with PCM wave

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 12/17/2023

[Solved] LOADING SF 17 PRO SUITE INTO 2nd CU

I purchased Sound Forge 17 Pro Suite and downloaded it in my desk top CU. When I attempt to load into my laptop, which you said I could do, it keeps rejecting the original voucher # . In your correspondence you said:Dear Customer, Sound Forge Pro 17

Other products

2 answers, most recent on 5/2/2024

RE: [Solved] I need help. A drum program and I know that Magix has one but I cannot

@Jeremy-Malone This old Acid Freedrum bundle? It's no longer sold. But you can get it used or get the drum sticks separately.

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2024

RE: [Solved] Can't find Colorize link

@Brian-deVetter Welcome to the Magix users forums. Having never used this feature I had to do a bit of digging into my installation to find the answer and to discover the Help file instructions, which you quote, are wrong or at least

Audio Cleaning Lab

5 answers, most recent on 6/12/2024

[Solved] Pausing recordings and closing files

I have been trying to figure out how to pause recordings after finishing a song or side of an LP without success. Stopping the process creates two or more separate files as opposed to continuing to record. Also, how can you close a single file after

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/5/2024

RE: [Solved] Removing a color effect

@Helen-Martin I can't see the effects put on the selected image beyond Size/Position. Scroll over a bit on the timeline so we can see what is on the image. Alternatively, if everything is like this, you may have put the monitor in some other mode,

Movie Studio

27 answers, most recent on 4/20/2025

[Solved] Activate Mpeg 4 Codec in Movie Studio 2025 Platinum

I could load, edit, and save MP4s. Then, suddenly Movie studio 2025 stopped working like normal and asked me to activate the Mpeg 4 codec. I couldn't do it and got this message: "The activation of MPEG-4-Codec failed. If you are using the program as

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 11/27/2024

RE: [Solved] Moving the scrubber frame by frame

@ron-griswold Hi There are 2 ways in Movie Studio: keyboard shortcuts left/right arrow keys the Jog/shuttle control, you may need to turn this on - see image below A third method, I use, is an external device - a Contour ShuttleXpress - the jog

Photostory

4 answers, most recent on 12/6/2023

RE: [Solved] Question about the text to speech feature.

@Dennis-Marangoni Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. Interesting questions! I confess I had not realised that the Text to Speech feature was offered now in PS Deluxe 2024, so I opened my copy and yes, there it is! (I've used it in Movie

SOUND FORGE

4 answers, most recent on 6/10/2025

RE: [Solved] SF18 in 1440p resolution looks blurred

Try using a High DPI override setting. Right-click the SFP <.exe> or the shortcut, Select 'Properties> Compatibility> Change high DPI settings' There are a few options so you may have experiment some..In my case, the toolbar text and

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 2/25/2024

RE: [Solved] Title issues. Not visible and unable to move

@Fred-Hoeser Hi . . . . channel . . . . I assume you mean 'track', 'channel' is usually used when referring to audio, eg stereo has a left and right channel. From what you are describing would suggest that there is another video or image object

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 10/25/2023

RE: [Solved] Problem after updating soundpools

@dpizza This can sometimes happen if you have stereo waveforms enabled. You can disable the stereo representation under the View > Arranger menu. Then it should work fine.

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 5/27/2024

RE: [Solved] how to use Prodad Vita scene

@fergie Hi Once you have redeemed the Vitascene coupon the Vitascene download option shown below should appear in the program Copy the serial number, also make a note of it for future reference in case you need to re-activate again after a

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 12/4/2023

RE: [Solved] Drag and drop from Edit/Preview window only works sometimes

@Ian-Schwartz Hi, In your image, is that a preview from the Media or is that the clip on the timeline? In MEP2022, if it's the preview from the Media pool and you have put trim in/out points, dragging from the preview window works. However, if you

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 7/18/2024

RE: [Solved] GUI locked out - anyone ever seen this (pic)

@cowman You can change the width of the track header with the keyboard shortcut SHIFT + TAB.

Samplitude

5 answers, most recent on 10/21/2023

RE: [Solved] Cannot install initial add-on software, i.e. vst files

@SP. and browj2 You guys rock! Thank you so much for your help! You nailed the problem. Once I check my logs in Win11 security (a bit paranoid for a default), it shows that it "protected" me by blocking Magix Samplitude from writing to the

Music Maker

8 answers, most recent on 9/15/2023

RE: [Solved] Old soundpools commerical licensing.

@Patrick-Fox What do you mean with Soundpool 1 to 20? Do you mean Soundpool Collection 1 to 20? If you still have the CDs and DVDs you can use Collection 1 to 16 commercially without any additional license. Check the EULA text file on the discs.

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 6/6/2024

RE: [Solved] Imported videos have sound but all frames are black

@Zoran-Rukavina Hi The mediaInfo data shows that the video is a 'standard' although with an incorrect audio sample rate format, MMS 2024 should not have an issue with the files. However there is an issue that should be fixed before proceeding