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Struckworld: Black bars are usually the result of a mismatch between the aspect ratio (16:9 etc) of a film and the aspect ratio of the source material. If you export a 4:3 clip as 16:9 there would be black bars on either side -- if you export

Movie Studio

One answer, on 11/26/2011

Having problems when I export a movie on 16:9 ratio in Magix Movie Edit Pro 17.

Okay so, when I export a movie I set my setting to 16:9, and when it's done, I see there is black bars on the top and bottom and side to side. How I make my movie animorphic?

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 3/30/2015

RE: How do I change the aspect ratio to something like 2:35:1?

There's a really easy way to do this, without image distortion. 1. First, we must calculate the resolution of the resulting ~2.35:1 video. Because we want to crop the video on its vertical ends and keep the full (horizontal) width, we take the

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 8/24/2011

RE: The active movie has a resolution of 720x490 (4:3), 29.97 fps. The File (File I'm editing) has a resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9), 59.96 fps

It looks like you are creating a standard DVD from HD material. If you only require standard DVD 16:9 or 4:3 you can run the batch conversion within MEP to convert all the video to a lower resolution, save them in a seperate folder and use

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 5/1/2011

RE: How do I Remove black borders on a 16:9 video?

jasaquayo, I've no ides how you got to have borders on both top and sides! Usually, if you convert 4:3 to 16:9, you get black bars at the sides only, to fill in the missing space. In contrast, going from 16:9 to 4:3 puts the bars at top and

Movie Studio

One answer, on 4/15/2011

How do you end a movie in Movie Edit Pro 12?

I am making a slide show for a website. I have put 45 still images together with a 13-1/2 minute interview. I was even able to put a few subtitles into the mix. Now I need to figure out how to set an ending marker. What happens now is the

Rescue Your Videotapes!

4 answers, most recent on 2/8/2011

RE: Having failures with sucessfully transfer vidoetapes over 1 hr using Rescue youer videotapes program

The USB input adapter is two parts. One part is just the wired adapter to get the rca stereo audio(red/white female connetions), a yellow female video connection and a s-video connetion. The entire audio/video wire adapter is about 6 in long and

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 6/23/2010

RE: Movie Edit Pro 4:3 to 16:9

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Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 6/6/2010

RE: error "the file format by ****.mmm cannot be read by mmm"

Photo & Graphic Designer

4 answers, most recent on 12/29/2018

RE: sepia and other effects

Sorry - meant to mention that you would do this from the Magix Xtreme Photo Designer tool which you can launch from within the Photostory when you ask to edit the photo. Also to make a photo black and white, launch Photo Designer, then go to

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 4/27/2010

RE: [Closed] How do I fade in/out background music tracks in Mov.edit pro 15

First understand that the material you have when loaded into the project will be contained in an "object". The "object" can be video, image, text, or audio. Each "object" has contains handles, two are on the lower bar of the "object" and three

Movie Studio

One answer, on 2/19/2010

[Closed] Wrong aspect ratio

Hello there, I'm very new to video editing and have a problem that I can't solve so I hope someone who is more experienced can. I have a new JVC digital camcorder which records in 16:9 aspect ratio. I backed up a short ( 16 minutes ) video to

Movie Studio

One answer, on 12/8/2009

what happened to my edit function button?

I just installed movie edit pro 15 and was showing my wife the visual effects. I went to make the screen bigger and was brought to a black screen I went back and found that the bar controlling the playback function had vanished. I forgot what else I

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 10/6/2009

RE: Help With Movie Editing, What I`m I doing Wrong!

You don't mention what your original movie file format is... If you could type/copy your video properties here we can have a look at what you are working with. If you are starting with 4:3 video it's difficult to convert the standard to 16:9

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 9/20/2009

RE: Is it possibel to apply effect on selection (area) of footage ?

Hi there, Applying an actual video effect (e.g. mosaic/pixelation) to only a selected area of the video footage is not possible. What you should probably go for is basically putting an overlay image/object over the part of the video you want to

Movie Studio

One answer, on 6/15/2009

[Closed] How do I put a black bar frame along my entire video?

Im filming a video off of my xbox, and there are a few things on the top and bottom of the screen that I would like to block with black bars (basically like a widescreen effect, only the video size doesnt change, I just block out the top and bottom

Movie Studio

One answer, on 12/4/2008

[Closed] Just need to cover bottom third of video with black bar image - shouldn't be difficult

I just need to cover up the bottom edge of my video with a black bar image. I am using Movie Edit Pro 14 Plus. When I try to add an image to a new track above the other tracks, it doesn't show up. I couldn't figure out how to turn the new track on.

Movie Studio

One answer, on 2/11/2008

Problems exporting

I've been trying to add audio to some finished Windows Movie Maker movies with Magix. When I go to import them, it says the active movie is 720x480, and the video I'm importing is 640x480. I click on "adjust" and then the video looks like it