• Video Pro X

  9 answers, most recent on 1/30/2019

  RE: Video Pro X won't normalize 24-bit or 32-bit wav audio objects
  Hi. In the meantime, does anyone have a workaround? Yes! Do exactly what you tried, open the wav file in an audio editor and convert it to 16 bit! That's either a bug or a serious shortcoming I think this is a matter of opinion but I'm afraid I
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 8/3/2019

  Raw AVI export mostly works OK, but other codecs do not
  I posted a topic about how AVI exports using various codecs did not work properly. The frame rate was changed; there were duplicate frames added; and the export did not line up with the selected points. As a workaround I have found that raw AVI with
• Other products

  10 answers, most recent on 4/8/2019

  RE: CRASHES
  @PhotoEnthusiast42, @emmrecs Hi . . . . I do not see how you could possibly have previously had version 17 . . . . The current Photo Manager Deluxe (13.x.x.x) is referred to as Photo Manager (17) in the list of my registered software. IIRC this was
• Other products

  10 answers, most recent on 4/8/2019

  RE: CRASHES
  I uninstalled the older deluxe version of the product, and installed the latest free version. The interesting thing is that the help-about shows version 13 in both cases. It did install in the directory with the 17 so my best assumption is that this
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 2/12/2019

  RE: How to re-encode without losing any quality
  I'm sure I will get slapped for this, but here goes :-) Ask yourself what the word encoding means and what the primary job of an encoder is. It is to reduce the file size of information while trying to retain detail. Raw data from a sensor is not
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 2/12/2019

  RE: How to re-encode without losing any quality
  I'm sure I will get slapped for this, but here goes :-) Ask yourself what the word encoding means and what the primary job of an encoder is. It is to reduce the file size of information while trying to retain detail. Raw data from a sensor is not in
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 12/23/2018

  RE: OT: DVD menu appearance when played on PC
  Hi John, Here's a very small extract (22 MB): https://www.dropbox.com/s/0x83a36brif6vjf/UK%20Hits%20Extract.zip?raw=1 And here are the equivalent screenshots, showing appearance in MEP and VLC respectively . As before, it's only the 4:3 AR of the
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 12/23/2018

  OT: DVD menu appearance when played on PC
  I've always been aware of the limits of SD DVD resolution. But the example I've illustrated below seems to show a rather worse comparison than I can recall from the many DVDs I've burned over the years. This is what the chapter menu of my DVD looks
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 12/14/2018

  RE: How to add animated GIF / looped MP4 overlay?
  Hi, 1. Many of clips of the sort you describe have a black background.2. So use Effects > Video effects > Chroma key.3. Choose Black, as I've shown here, to make black transparent.4. Place it in the track below your background, i.e. in the
• Video Pro X

  19 answers, most recent on 12/12/2018

  RE: Rendering artifats
  @v850tw . . . . . Blackmagic Pocket Camera . . . . One immediate issue I see with this camera is, AFAICS and someone may correct me on this, that the video formats the camera uses are not supported by VPX. HTH John EB   100 GOP... I would never
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 12/8/2018

  RE: General Advice on longevity of Digital Video Formats
  @Xenofex2 A couple of years back? Exactly how far back? What was the video taken with? What were the specifications of the camera? Do you remember the specs of the original computer you played it back on? Video monitors have come a long way since
• Movie Studio

  88 answers, most recent on 12/3/2018

  RE: Project has Frozen after update using Pro Premium.
  Hi John, Hi Ray, Agreed, the manual is certainly not very helpful! And if it does indeed require carefully orchestrated synchronising between sender and receiver then it seems quite impractical to me. I suspect the problem for me is related to my
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  @jak.willis, @johnebaker Hi John, what you have described is the job for the quality slider, ie, the movement side of things in the compression used within the encoding algorithm. The bit rate compression happens from the sensor readings and
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
   So what happens in the case of each individual source file, direct from the camera, having a different bitrate? For instance, I have recently been putting together a video in MEP, using the raw video files direct from my camera. However, according
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
   So what happens in the case of each individual source file, direct from the camera, having a different bitrate? For instance, I have recently been putting together a video in MEP, using the raw video files direct from my camera. However, according
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  Hi Jak. Pretty much, but because we don't see individual frames with our eyes, some blur in the individual frames around a moving subject within a video can actually give a more natural looking effect that trying to make it look sharper or have
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 10/28/2018

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 2016 Crashes Non Stop
  I'm reletively new to movie edit pro and have the latest edition running but I too had the same problem a couple of months back. Basically I had inadvertantly imported an unsupported file format. In my instance it was an unsupported still image raw
• Other products

  3 answers, most recent on 12/13/2018

  RE: Photo Manager Pro does not show photo creation date
  Hi, welcome to the Magix forums. I think  you may have just found a bug, or at least some aspect of the program which does NOT behave in the manner one might expect! I run the same version of Photo manager, and have just tested this on my computer,
• Other products

  3 answers, most recent on 12/13/2018

  Photo Manager Pro does not show photo creation date
  I am trying to organize my photos and date is an important metric for me. I have imported the photos and when I look at the properties and Exif data it does not show the creation date properly. All the photos default to the 1900 date when I check
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 10/12/2018

  RE: Trying to, but unable to re-edit film footage already burned to disc.
  Hello Jeff, hello John CB. Thanks to both for the interest. Sorry for delay - work commitments. Re Jeff firstly - No, I have deleted it all thinking that the final version I have saved and burned to disc would be on the hard drive and available for
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 10/12/2018

  RE: Trying to, but unable to re-edit film footage already burned to disc.
  Hi. Did you retain on your computer the original unedited (raw) video files from which you made your final version, not just the .mvp project file? When you re-open the project, do you see a message that MEP is unable to find some or all of the
• SOUND FORGE

  No answers, created on 9/13/2018

  Sound Forge Pro fails at crash recovery
  I'd like to post a complaint about Sound Forge Pro crash recovery process. After a system or SoundForge crash, SF tries to recover the files in the TEMP folder when you run it. The recovery process is successful only if SF manages to read from the
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 8/21/2018

  RE: Smooth DVD
  @johnebakerHi John EBI have solved my issue. Nothing to do with interlacing or progressive.I found regardless of the raw video frame rates, if I set the movie settings to 50fps to smooth out any jitter with pan shots and then export to WMV at 25fps
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 1/9/2020

  [Closed] Trouble with audio from GoPro videos
  Just bought a GoPro Hero Black 6, and just updated my MAGIX Edit Pro 2014 to MAGIX Edit Pro Plus 2018.  My first GoPro videos are Mpeg4 1920x1080  16:9 shot with 60fps.  MAGIX plays the video fine but the audio is all scratchy.  If I shoot a new