• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  @CubeAce @Scenestealer @johnebaker @pmikep I'm not sure how "useful" my figures will prove to be, but here goes anyway... First, a couple of caveats: My system has NO UHD hardware installed. And only one monitor, also not UHD. I ran these tests in
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  @pmikep Some thoughts on benchmark videos: I don't have the patience to wait for a 15 minute decode, especially since MEP doesn't report the Elapsed Time after the video is done. I tend to agree that Ray's project is not ideal as a standard but
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  Okay, final results: (Update: All with Win10 Graphic Settings set to the UHD for MEP.) Best time was with Nvidia set as Display Monitor, no VFX on GPU =18:16 Then same, but with VFX on GPU =22:18. Slower. So calculating VFX on GPU here made things
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  Some thoughts on benchmark videos: I don't have the patience to wait for a 15 minute decode, especially since MEP doesn't report the Elapsed Time after the video is done. (That is, I walk away from the computer to do something else while it's
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  @johnebaker @Scenestealer Hi John. My best export time was 15 minute 45 seconds John under the conditions mentioned above. Have not tried an export to a lower resolution as yet. There is no use of dynamic titling in the project. Type faces I think
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  @Scenestealer Hi Peter. Taking your last point first. Both were in use when I got the lowest export times. I've no idea why but with one or the other not ticked the export times were slower. I am now getting even more confused while trying to setup
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 3/28/2020

  RE: Moving/slotting images and transitions in Timeline Mode
  On the "Return to Select Object Mode" - I was thinking a user settable timer. Like, if you haven't continued to do ripple edits for 15 seconds, it reverts back to Single Object. MEP could "ding" to let you know it reverted back to Single. OR -
• Movie Studio

  132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

  36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.
  Hi all. Prelude. This is going to be lengthy, so please bear with me. You may find it interesting or complete rubbish. First I'd like to say that the moderators here and few regular contributors are very knowledgeable and have helped /are still
• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 3/29/2020

  RE: MEP System Requirements
  @Scenestealer@Scenestealer @pmikep @LeCanadien Hi Peter. I think it may be the other way around.The box with the tick in it is not greyed out but may be locked in. Why else would I keep getting readings that it is in use? I have found ways and
• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 3/29/2020

  RE: MEP System Requirements
  @CubeAce, @Scenestealer Hi Ray Ray - it looks like we are talking at cross purposes here - I am referring to exporting, the settings you are looking at are for Preview in arranger if I set this to the RTX 2060 then I do see about 15-17% activity
• Movie Studio

  31 answers, most recent on 3/29/2020

  RE: MEP System Requirements
  @LeCanadien I made one mistake above. I should have said I regularly use 15 gigs of ram for 15 minute projects not 5 minute. Here is a screenshot of how MEP is using my system. I would also add get a decent CPU cooler. Run a processor hot and it
• Movie Studio

  67 answers, most recent on 2/11/2020

  RE: Movie Edit Pro :.: 19.0.2.49
  Greetings, OK now I'm frightened. This morning, about 15 minutes ago, I turned on the computer and booted up MEP to start the "initialising" sequence as described above. After clicking on the Store tab I was amazed to see that all my content was
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 1/26/2020

  RE: New PC Specification
  I'm glad John warned you that you will not be happy with an AMD based system. I purposely bought a used Dell with an i3-8100 in it just so I could try MEP again. ($300 USD on Amazon.) The 8th gen CPU's have the same iGPU as the 9th gen, the UHD
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 1/26/2020

  RE: New PC Specification
  I'm glad John warned you that you will not be happy with an AMD based system. I purposely bought a used Dell with an i3-8100 in it just so I could try MEP again. ($300 USD on Amazon.) The 8th gen CPU's have the same iGPU as the 9th gen, the UHD
• Movie Studio

  52 answers, most recent on 4/8/2020

  RE: Audio problem with playback of old .avi files
  @William-Murphy Hi Thanks for the clip I have run a MediaInfo analysis and ( @CubeAce are you clairvoyant?) it has 2 stereo audio streams muxed into the video and I suspect that it is this that is causing the issue. When imported into MEP there is
• Movie Studio

  52 answers, most recent on 4/8/2020

  RE: Audio problem with playback of old .avi files
  @William-Murphy I tried this file in VPX11, MEP2019, MEP2016 and all have the sound problems. In Magix Sound Forge Cleaning Lab, no problem except that it ran at the wrong speed. I tried in Pinnacle Studio 23U and Vegas 15 Edit, no problem with the
• Movie Studio

  52 answers, most recent on 4/8/2020

  RE: Audio problem with playback of old .avi files
  Terry- I now discover I can open the file with good sound with VLC 2.1.5, RealPlayer, Quicktime, and Win Media Player. For whatever reason, just not MEP 19.0.1.31. Your post made me think to go back to open MEP 15.0.0.114 and the problem existed
• Movie Studio

  50 answers, most recent on 4/24/2020

  RE: Is my result a typical benchmark? (UHD 630 HW encode)
  Okay, as a "sanity check," I just encoded the same 2.5 minute 4K video of puppies on version 15 of a competitor's encoder, known for winning all the speed awards. It did the video in 1 min, 40 seconds, using "Hardware Acceleration," which is well
• Video Pro X

  116 answers, most recent on 12/12/2019

  RE: VPX11 Patch 17.0.3.55
  @browj2 Hi John I have repeated your testing with 50 image objects on a track with various transitions and found the following over 15 different changes of transition whether this is enough I do not know however: . . . Putting a transition between
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 11/30/2019

  RE: No hardware encoding with Intel HD 530
  @johnebaker Hi John. UHD? 3,840 x 2,160p? Why doesn't the top left hand box show your Intel GPU? Mine always had since activating MEP. Having said that my present setup looked like this. So I changed it to resemble your image to this. But on my
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 11/30/2019

  RE: No hardware encoding with Intel HD 530
  @CubeAce Hi Ray @wongck's comment is correct the UHD 630 iGPU's maximum power draw is ~15W compared the the RTX 2060's ~180W 😱. So far in testing with MEP and VPX, in terms of speed performance per Watt the UHD 630 beats the RTX 2060, it is
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @CubeAce Hi Ray I have been playing with the Tech Talk project and, found the following: AFAICS - the Intro/Outro's are not hardware accelerated on the UHD 630 iGPU. With the UHD project, 3840 x 2160 50 fps, the render rate drops down to about 0.5
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @browj2 Hi John. I had the free version of Music Maker up and running with the keyboard in Win 7 out of interest. It supports and uses several of my VST soft synths including a few of the older Cubase ones. I am surprised at how cheap some of the
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @johnebaker @CubeAce And here are the 2 for Music Maker - Control and Performer: About adjusting for music, whether or not you have MEP or VPX, it's still a chore. I'm trying to put music to a 25 minute video using Magix Soundpool loops in