• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 9/6/2021

  RE: Exporting Video File for Smartphone Vertical Viewing
  @slackerdan Essentially: 1. Create new movie settings for the format you want (File>Settings>Movie). If MEP doesn't have the social media resolution you want as shown by Patient-X above, you can make your own: in particular, you put in the
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 8/31/2021

  RE: how to edit/ trim within a frame/ smaller than a frame / incrementally
  @kate-m Hi, First, it is not possible to edit video to less than a frame. You can't have a portion of a picture. In MEP, it is not possible to edit audio to less than a frame either. However, it is possible in Video Pro X. For you in MEP, there are
• Xara Designer Pro

  10 answers, most recent on 9/12/2022

  No longer possible to distort/resize pictures?
  I'm using Designer Pro X18 on Windows 10. I'm a long-time user. It used to be that I could Import a raster image, and then, using the object edit handles, I could distort that image by dragging the top/bottom/left/right handles. NOW, however, when I
• Samplitude

  7 answers, most recent on 8/20/2021

  RE: Cant seem to figure out how to get started with this program
  @Dopamine That is correct. You create a track, add an instrument of your choice and create a MIDI object. Then you can also open up the virtual keyboard like in the following picture.   Here are some workflow tricks:Open the MIDI editor by double
• Samplitude

  7 answers, most recent on 8/20/2021

  RE: Cant seem to figure out how to get started with this program
  @SP. that did it! thank you so much for the help. after switching the monitor mode and turning off the realtek outputs I can now hear through my headset and not through my speakers and the virtual instruments are responsive. now I just need to
• Samplitude

  7 answers, most recent on 8/20/2021

  RE: Cant seem to figure out how to get started with this program
  @Dopamine No problem. It is a little tricky to get started as a beginner. You can always check out the PDF manual in the help menu. It is several hundred pages long but has a lot of pictures. Or just ask for more details if our explanations aren't
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 8/31/2021

  RE: how to edit/ trim within a frame/ smaller than a frame / incrementally
  @browj2 Hi John. Sorry I didn't realise I would have to solo a track or not be able select a single object within a track. Originally I could right click any audio object on any track in MEP 2018 and edit the wave file externally. My only option now
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 8/31/2021

  RE: how to edit/ trim within a frame/ smaller than a frame / incrementally
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, Please don't try to make the feature do more than was intended. As per the manual, a mixdown creates a stereo wave file, "optimized" meaning normalized. It normalizes the result, not the audio of each object as you seem to imply.
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 8/31/2021

  RE: how to edit/ trim within a frame/ smaller than a frame / incrementally
  @browj2 @kate-m Hi John. Following your advice is not currently possible in MEP 2021. I'm not even sure if it is possible in the last few versions of VPX. Do a mixdown of the range by using the shortcut Shift+D, save to a name/place (I just use the
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 8/31/2021

  RE: how to edit/ trim within a frame/ smaller than a frame / incrementally
  @kate-m Hi, First, it is not possible to edit video to less than a frame. You can't have a portion of a picture. In MEP, it is not possible to edit audio to less than a frame either. However, it is possible in Video Pro X. For you in MEP, there are
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 8/2/2021

  RE: Merge video files - or should that be superimpose or even overlay?
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, It would be nice to have similar tools in the Chroma Key section that Vegas has Vegas users would like to have those tools in Vegas as well. Your link is to Vegas Image which is an image editor, not the video editor Vegas. It is
• Video Pro X

  218 answers, most recent on 9/16/2021

  RE: [RELEASE] Video Pro X13 – SIMPLY HIGH END.
  @johnebaker Patch 19.0.1.107   Edit Wave Externally After doing a mixdown on an object, I was able to edit the wave file externally in Music Editor multiple times in the same session. Didn't check patch 107. This is an improvement as it could not
• Music Maker

  157 answers, most recent on 12/30/2025

  RE: Wishlist for the next Music Maker!
  @MAGIX_Redaktion The video monitor is missing in the new version. It is also no longer possible to create your own keyboard shortcuts. Furthermore, some users here have the problem that Music Maker without Internet is only usable to a very limited
• Other products

  3 answers, most recent on 7/24/2021

  RE: Advice on Markers please - Movie Studio 18 (Platinum)
  @SteveCo Hi, Good question that will require long answers and likely some discussion. I'll use MEP for MMS as they are the same, VPX for Video Pro X. To start, no, there is no way to do what you suggest in MEP. Next, to keep the jargon straight, in
• Video Pro X

  218 answers, most recent on 9/16/2021

  RE: [RELEASE] Video Pro X13 – SIMPLY HIGH END.
  @johnebaker Patch 19.0.1.107 Size/Position seems to work better but look at the keyframe area below: The horizontal scroll bar has gone wonky. There should be keyframes on X and Y Scale. Strangely, when I added a bit of levelling under Orientation,
• MAGIX

  55 answers, most recent on 12/15/2021

  RE: [RELEASE] Movie Studio 18
  @MAGIX_Redaktion We plan to introduce Movie Studio 18 gradually as to why it is still comparable to Movie Edit Pro 2021 at this moment. Movie Studio 18 is the beginning of the rebrand of Movie Edit Pro for all non-German-speaking countries and is
• Music Maker

  One answer, on 7/16/2021

  Error 1603 during installation
  During installation of Magix Music Maker free edition an error occurred. The install log sais:   $2021-07-16 20:50:12.402|099c:2d74|ERROR||MessageBox: text='Failed to set security descriptor on object C:\Users\Public\Documents\MAGIX\Common\, system
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 7/16/2021

  VPX 13, new patch, 19.0.1.106, multicam mode is NOT fixed
  In the announcement thread, the first listed "fix" is for multicam mode. Unfortunately, it isn't (fixed, that is)! In my very brief testing of this I repeated an exercise I had done with an earlier build and I can see no difference. The icon to
• Other products

  6 answers, most recent on 7/15/2021

  RE: Platinum18: How to click on the track & move cursor at the same time
  I have also noticed that the playback cursor (orange marker) does not "snap" into place when I get it near the edge of an object. Is that also a setting in Movie Edit Pro that you can set and unset? (I want it to snap) Thanks!
• Other products

  One answer, on 7/15/2021

  RE: Platinum18: Layer display in the wrong order
  @inacoveney Hi and welcome to the forum, You can't. You are now using a different product that has a different track protocol. No more inserting tracks above the background to put an object or title overtop of another one. Tracks are numbered
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 7/19/2021

  RE: Editing audio files externally after being imported/edited in MEP
  @Basel-Shishani Hi, Ditto what Ray mentioned. Here is a link to a video that I sent to Magix showing the problem with Edit Wave Externally: We discussed Edit Wave Externally in this thread and in this thread. From what I recall about what happened
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 7/19/2021

  Editing audio files externally after being imported/edited in MEP
  Greetings community, So I import audio files (.wav) and do cuts and joins on them within MEP, then I figure out I need to do some more effects or clean up on them in my audio editor (SoundForge or WavePad). Now trying to call an external audio
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/7/2021

  RE: Unable to use Effects
  @izack Hi, Thinking object=picture I had been placing my cursor on the picture. Since my projects had gone smoothly in the past I may have been unaware that the track was highlighted  You still have it wrong. You select the object on the timeline,
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/7/2021

  RE: Unable to use Effects
  @izack To the best of my knowledge, it has always been the case that, in Timeline view, one had to click on the object on the track to highlight it and then "edit" it. Perhaps you previously used the Scene Overview mode? I've never used it so have