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Sorry to 'throw this all out there' but I have a few questions about Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.... I am interested in Xara for image editing, but was wondering a few things that [hopefully] are simple to answer: Looking at the

Movie Studio

20 answers, most recent on 9/1/2016

RE: Transferring/copying blu-ray dvd home movies to hard drive to view on TV

Hi ray . . . . any advice as the best means of saving it to hard drive in a way that would also incorporate the menus and chapters etc. . . . . My previous answers still hold, except for using the WD TV Media player - as Terry has

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 7/16/2016

RE: Movie Edit Pro 2016 Customized DVD Menus --Rank video beginner

Hi, To answer your question about the features of the different versions, MEP Basic is quite limited in its features. For audio, it would be comparable to MusicMaker Basic, a long way from Sam Pro X2. If you can get an upgrade to Plus fom Magix,

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 6/15/2016

RE: Magix Movie Edit Pro 2016

I see, then you can't just have the feature on Magix. Which has the black borders scale feature. I think I have to just do it in Photoshop, and ajust it auto matically using Magix's size feature. Thanks for your help Yvon-Robert :)

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 6/15/2016

Magix Movie Edit Pro 2016

Hi there, I want to add top and bottom black borders to my 16:9 video. But I've looked everywhere and can not find a setting which automatically scales borders to the video, or as a seperate layer. I don't want to have to create them in

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 6/17/2016

RE: VPX(8) - New features - LUTs and Brightness, contrast, saturation & temperature curve effect

Hi John CB . . . . some Gernam text on the Brightness/Contrast screen. I don't see any . . . You are correct, I was going from memory which effects I had been playing with and found the German text - Shot Match was one of them. . . . .

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 7/1/2016

RE: New licencing system

Now I guess this subscription method is not aimed at me? Whilst I do have quite a wide variety of Magix programs installed on myDesktop Computer, only MEP has been the one for some reason that I have decided to upgrade each year. No idea why?

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016

RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi @ John CB . . . . "Plate substitution and blending?" Can you provide some details? . . . . Also known as Blending channels - involves seperating the image into its colour channels ie RGB, CMYK or HSL - also LAB if you have Photoshop -

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016

RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi Terry I use the MEP HDR feature a lot. Well at least I did up untill it stopped working with MEP on my new 64bit version of Windows10 (see my recent post about that problem). I find that 10 to 20 on the HDR and a small amount of Contrast (55

Video Pro X

8 answers, most recent on 3/17/2016

RE: Use Video in DVD Chapter Buttons

Hi Barry, I re-sent the video; looks ok now. I seem to recall being able to do it in Pinnacle Studio several years ago, but I may be mistaken. I agree with you, the feature should be there. Maybe we should each send a message to Magix. Do

Photostory

One answer, on 1/14/2016

RE: Effects; zoom out..

Hi, See this thread and the link to a video. You can put "Zoom" as a search term in this forum and search for more. You can also go through some of the tutorials to find out more about keyframes. PhotoStory is just a slightly stripped down

Movie Studio

One answer, on 1/6/2016

RE: Snow-capped text in MEP

I use normally photoshop and so my communication with xara is not well..... This tut is very helpful for understandig! I followed you very easy! Edit: nice to play with!!

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 12/22/2015

RE: automatically create proxy files

Hi I am in the middle of a slideshow project and I have to keep logging off and on to give the project some get up and go !!!! It is constantly freezing. This is usually caused by all the RAM being used up when there are a lot of high

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 12/4/2015

RE: Potential new customer of Movie Edit Pro 2016 - a few questions about it please...

Hi Nick, I also use Pinnacle Studio Pro (18.6 presently) but only for some of the effects that I don't have with Movie Edit Pro (MEP), otherwise, it's all Magix. Get MEP 2016 Premium, not basic or Plus. Premium has the Mercalli 4 plugin, which

Photostory

One answer, on 11/14/2015

RE: Background music -

Hi again Kristen, I hope that you are using Photostory and not PhotoShop . After adding your audio to a track, you need to do some "ducking." In timeline mode, right click on the audio clip, select Volume curve, show. Read the message on the

Photostory

One answer, on 11/14/2015

Background music -

I add my own music to my slideshows. When a video in the show comes on, I want to turn my background music off so I can hear the narration. How do you do this? Totally lost PhotoShop 2016 Deluxe Kristen

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 11/15/2015

Pan and zoom individual photo's in PhotoShop 2016 Deluxe

I have spent days trying to figure this out. I want to take ONE picture, Start the picture with a zoom into an individual - the zoom out to the whole picture. I have tried everything but I guess not the right thing. Without this, I can't

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 9/23/2015

RE: Why is MEP15 not allowing me to burn a simple disc

HI John, i am running windows 8. i am a novice at this, video is not my skill, i am a photographer so far more used to photoshop than this software. it was erroring on the encoding saying errno5 after 2 minutes. as i say i am a novice and have

Video Pro X

One answer, on 8/23/2015

RE: VIDEO PRO X5 AND BLACKMAGIC COMPATIBILITY

Hi This is because the RAW files are in fact folders full of RAW still images that need processing and then exporting as a movie sequence from either the DaVinci Resolve program that comes free with the camera or Adobe After effects or even

Photostory

16 answers, most recent on 8/25/2015

RE: In Photostory 2013 I want to zoom into particular areas of a photo

Thanks, browi2 for your quick and so thorough response. I didn't reply quickly because I followed your instructions but it didn't work. I thought if I came with fresh eyes and I would see what I'm doing wrong but I can't. there are several +

Movie Studio

No answers, created on 7/21/2015

Older MEP versions prior to 2014 - were there PSD buttons in the Burn Edit window?

I noticed in PhotoStory on DVD 2013 Deluxe that there are buttons at the top of the Burn, Edit screen to import and export PSD files. This is not in MEP2014Plus or 2015Premium and I don't have any of the older versions on my computer anymore. Can

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

RE: Transparent Button?

Hi ADFAICS to get a transparent background to the image you need to save it as a BMP file with an Alpha channel. This can be done in Photoshop however I do not have Photoshop elements so cannot test it. To do this in Photoshop see this

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

RE: Transparent Button?

Hi, It seems to me that your PNG is not transparent. What program did you use to make it? What does it look like in various image viewers or editors? Also, can you provide full details of how you're adding and editing the button in MEP

Video Pro X

2 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

RE: Lens barrel distortion correction in Magix Pro x6?

Thank you for your response John. This is an example as how it looks in VPX6. The video doesnt have barrel distortion but just to show how the image is changed. So VPX6 has a similar lens correction tool. But as you see it distorts