• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 11/11/2020

  RE: Email Flyers
  @johnebaker @CubeAce Thanks both for your comments John & Ray. Knowing I've fallen for the oldest trick in the marketing handbook is what really narked me. I was only really venting my spleen after buying a graphics card that cost me an arm and
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/3/2020

  RE: cant find "Standard" view on MEP 2017 plus
  @Kaywahjay Hi Folks, YAY!!!...OMG I cant thank you all enough for taking your time to help me out. the shortcut trick wasn't working, but shrinking all the screens down to FINALLY reveal the main screen hidden behind them all did the trick. I'm
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/3/2020

  RE: cant find "Standard" view on MEP 2017 plus
  Hi Friends, thank you so much for the suggestions. The short cut trick didn't get me back to my home screen with all the familiar options listed across the top of the screen. I'm including a shot of the "Timeline" view to see if anyone can identify
• Web Designer

  6 answers, most recent on 10/31/2020

  RE: Adding a 3rd party audio player
  @d-p @johnebaker Ok, I got the HTML5 to work. The trick was to get the audioplayer.html and its folders into the website, then publish. For the header part, I put the pertinent code in the (right click on the page, Web page properties), HTML Code
• Web Designer

  6 answers, most recent on 10/31/2020

  RE: Adding a 3rd party audio player
  @d-p @johnebaker I also struggled with this. I used the iFrame method. The trick was to publish the page, if not already done, then upload to the website (I used Xara Online) the audioplayer.html and the 2 folders created when making the widget from
• ACID

  39 answers, most recent on 12/25/2020

  RE: 10.0.4 Software Update causing Unmanaged Exception 0xc0000005 Crash
  @Hibbo Haha, these things are always long, rabbit hole capers in disguise as a minor issue. Hopefully, they get back to me today and I can post their response. Something like this is $25 and it purports to completely uninstall any trace of a program
• SOUND FORGE

  7 answers, most recent on 11/18/2020

  RE: Sound Forge Pro 14 does not work like Sound Forge Pro 13 did
  I spoke too soon. The settings revert upon reloading. I did click apply and got the restart dialog. Yet when reopening, the setting has reverted to FALSE. Initially, the program did not seem to retain settings like which and where toolbars were
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 10/25/2020

  RE: please install the following codec to decode the format 'DV25'.
  @JyrkiTapani-Lehikoinen @Scenestealer @CubeAce @johnebaker But wait, there's more. I remembered a nifty DV manipulation program from the late 90s: DVDate by Paul Glagla (site OK, no trojans, Malwarebytes had a hissy fit). It will change the codec
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 12/11/2020

  RE: Video decompression
  @jak.willis Short answer is Yes Jak. The trick to keeping file sizes from getting too large or too small and not losing quality that you could notice easily in normal playback is to set them at roughly the same settings as the original settings of
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 10/11/2020

  RE: Simple and accurate method of syncing two camera angles visually
  Thanks all for the suggestions. Is there a way to nudge a video track by one frame whilst dragging in the timeline without zooming the timeline to 1 frame level, and like wise an audio track to less than one frame? @emmrecs Glad to see I am not just
• Music Maker

  7 answers, most recent on 10/7/2020

  RE: My Vita Strings Have Disappeared
  This is the copy protection failing. The instrument thinks for some reason it is not correctly registered on your system. Did you really restarted your computer or did you just shut it down and turned it on again? On Windows 10 this is not the same
• Other products

  One answer, on 10/5/2020

  RE: Download and Installation manager stop downloading
  In my opinion it is caused by Magix servers. For me it works most the time if I let it download over night but stops regularly during the day (in Germany). It is especially problematic when Magix is doing Humble Bundle sales and tens of thousands of
• Web Designer

  9 answers, most recent on 10/1/2020

  RE: Distortion to text when viewing on different browsers firefox and edge
  Hi Folks, Just in case this helps anyone else. I've checked around and if a website is not displaying correctly it is recommended that you go into your browser and clear the history for the particular browser. This did the trick, the website is now
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 9/21/2020

  RE: Transitions
  It looks like Magix have played their old tricks with the upgrade to 2020. I tried it and had no video so I reverted to the previous incarnation. I have some transitions but they're relocated (Again!!) and Magix has deleted the others. I expect they
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 9/23/2020

  RE: A couple of annoyances with MEP2021
  Thanks for the reply John. Im glad it's not just me. It's obviously about teaching old dogs new tricks with young programmers looking after my mental wellbeing by keeping my mind agile and hand-eye coordination up to the mark. Still, at least I wake
• Movie Studio

  20 answers, most recent on 9/18/2020

  RE: Adding text where I want it on the timeline
  @hdrechsel18 For ducking, as John EB mentioned, you may have to modify the points a bit. I do my narration straight into MEP (actually VPX). For my tutorials, I make a script, then try to capture whatever is required to follow the script, find that
• Photostory

  5 answers, most recent on 11/3/2022

  RE: More Collage Templates
  John CB, I knew it must be somewhere I wasn't looking. That did the trick - thanks so much for the easy and fast solution!!!
• Movie Studio

  57 answers, most recent on 11/6/2020

  RE: Problems with footage
  @nicolas-r @johnebaker Hi Nicolas. I suspect Handbrake in this instance is doing a smart render of some kind and the resulting file (If the one you show above is from a Handbrake conversion) is still not giving a readable GOP structure. I have found
• Music Maker

  2 answers, most recent on 9/9/2020

  RE: line showing number of bars collapses
  @Joe-DeMare Hi Joe, It doesn't happen very often. Usually, if double-clicking on the yellow bar, even if very small, doesn't work, F4 works. Another trick is to click on the double-headed arrow at the right below the arranger to put your project to
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 9/2/2020

  RE: MEP 2020 "Takes" Issue?
  @johnebaker Hi John Thanks for the information. The bug was in MEP 2020, and in response I downgraded to my original MEP 2019. I think I tried your trick at the time, but can't be certain now - and I can't try it again because I no longer have the
• Web Designer

  2 answers, most recent on 9/2/2020

  RE: How to scroll to bottom of page using an image/element on the web page
  Hi John EB..THANKS for your Excellent reply and answering my question by using example.That was easy to follow and also exactly what I was looking for.Xara Web Designer truly is a capable and powerful program when you know how to use it.FYI - I used
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 9/22/2020

  RE: [Closed] What do I have to do to be able to edit MP4s again?
  John: Thank you for your patience with me. 👍 It's getting a bit too "technical" with me and I have trouble understanding all the things you say. But I'm confused with you saying that "Something is blocking making a change to a setting or registry
• Movie Studio

  26 answers, most recent on 8/26/2020

  RE: Frame size for export.
  @Richard-Curtis Unless I am exporting only to DVD and the source material is DVD quality or worse, I use 16:9, full HD (1920x1080) as my project settings. I do not normally shoot 4k and, like you, I am using mostly old material that is full HD or
• Music Maker

  5 answers, most recent on 8/28/2020

  RE: Humble Bundle $40 In-App Credit Voucher -Isn't one
  @BMaps13 Yes, it's a trick. You should not pay 1$ for a 40$ voucher. You should pay the full price for whatever you purchase. I'm sure Magix would prefer that. I'm being sarcastic, in case it didn't register. If you don't like a near freebie, then