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24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi @ Peter . . . . Maybe this was the secret in the old days with the Rollei Flexes and the likes of Vivian Meyer. . . . . Very true - another problem with SLR's is that most people use them at eye level, for taking photos of people this is

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi John EB A little trick to get a relatively steady image is to hold the camera somewhere near your belt buckle Nice tip, you cetainly get less rocking / swaying if you are walking and shooting video. OTT - Not something I had thought

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24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi @ John CB . . . . The boat was moving forward and up and down on waves. The time it takes for the camera to take 3 photos, the boat and my wife's hands likely moved . . . . . That does not help - the boat must have been rocking

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24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Thanks all. I also posted in the Corel forum (asking about PaintShop Pro 8 HDR capabilities - there are none in this very old version) and received this enhancement from an expert there. Hi Walter, It certainly qualifies for your label of "a

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi Terry I am with you on your last post in that it is better to have something that looks pleasing to the eye, but I agree with John EB that it is a matter of personal taste as to how much enhancement is good. I doubt your modest digital

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi @ John CB Interesting result on the image. The ghosting would suggest that the shutter button was 'stabbed' instead of being given a gentle squeeze. @ Terry Here is my adjustment - no HDR just a touch of curves to increase the contrast

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24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi, @John EB, I have a Canon DSLR and it has a setting for HDR backlight control. I don't have a setting for AEB..........oh, it's under the AV setting. Didn't read that part of the manual. Thanks for that! Time to find time to read the

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi @ Peter . . . . I think John means that he is shooting on a camera that has an HDR effect that is selectable, and this will take 3 exposures and combine them in the background with one click of the button, so it shouldn't take any longer to

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi Peter, Thanks, much appreciated and lots to experiment with. My misunderstanding about the multiple shots. I'm at a relatively primitive kit level. Still using a Canon Ixus 220 HS for both photos and video. And as of the last few weeks, my

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

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Thanks for that very helpful reply John. I'm lazier than you with my photos. Many are taken when pausing briefly during walks so I rarely have time to consider taking three shots at different EV levels. I usually do a fair bit of editing in

Movie Studio
24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
RE: HDR and other effects for photos

Hi Terry . . . . . How often do you apply MEP's HDR effect to photos - always, sometimes, rarely, never . . . . Rarely, and when I do, I use bracketed exposures, minimum 3 to a max of 5 images, or record the image in RAW format so I can get

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24 answers, most recent on 3/23/2016
HDR and other effects for photos

Much of my material for holiday videos consists of JPG photos, mainly landscapes. I'm re-exploring the use of HDR and similar effects and would appreciate some discussion about others' approaches please. For example: 1. How often do you apply

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76 answers, most recent on 3/13/2017
RE: HDR effect does not work with MEP2014, 2016 or VPX7 on new machine with new Win10 Pro installation

Hi John I decided to swop the discreet graphics card from my old PC into the new W10 PC and lo... the HDR functions correctly! Only trouble is the Nvidia driver latest 364.51 installation appears to have corrupted the audio cleaning tools in MEP

Movie Studio
76 answers, most recent on 3/13/2017
RE: HDR effect does not work with MEP2014, 2016 or VPX7 on new machine with new Win10 Pro installation

Hi John Thanks for the feedback. I have done a couple of driver upgrades since installing the OS and Magix programs via "Device manager > update driver automatically". Unfortunately no change in the HDR fault. Intels driver update utility

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76 answers, most recent on 3/13/2017
HDR effect does not work with MEP2014, 2016 or VPX7 on new machine with new Win10 Pro installation

Hi I have recently built a new desktop PC (see specs. in my signature) and have struck a problem with the HDR effect malfunctioning, seemingly on all (64bit) versions of Magix MEP/VPX. The preview monitor becomes very dark as soon as the HDR

Movie Studio
4 answers, most recent on 1/19/2016
RE: HDR video

Hi, See my first point. You must have the basic version so no HDR and no gamma control on Lows, Mid and Highs, I presume. Here is what the screens look like: You can see above in the inset the commands under the Gamma

Movie Studio
4 answers, most recent on 1/19/2016
RE: HDR video

Hi, See my first point. You must have the basic version so no HDR and no gamma control on Lows, Mid and Highs, I presume. Here is what the screens look like: You can see above in the inset the commands under the Gamma popdown. Below is

Movie Studio
4 answers, most recent on 1/19/2016
RE: HDR video

How do I find the HDR and HDR Blur? I know how to do the gama high mid and low I wish I could control all 3 seperatly I found with chroma key you can do it the only problem is the video size becomes huge after doing 3 videos on top of each other

Movie Studio
4 answers, most recent on 1/19/2016
RE: HDR video

If you have MEP 2015 Plus or Premium, then you have the HDR and Gamma tools builtin, no need to do what is shown in the video. Just raise the HDR and adjust the HDR blur, add a little yellowish colour and you're done. If you don't have the Plus