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First time user of Magix Music Maker. Started experimenting making music but finding navigation difficult as I want to add/ remove/ hide certain sections of the screen layout during composition. Is there an easy way to customise the screen layout,

Movie Studio

132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.

@pmikep Hi Mike. Just tried at my best settings for a fast export. Only managed to equal but not beat previous attempts. Most export times were actually slower so abandoned the export . I have found a UHD clip that is just over 2 minutes and under

Movie Studio

132 answers, most recent on 8/25/2020

RE: 36 Hours of Testing MEP Premier Settings For Playback and Export.

Hi Mike. I don't think so. Even the fastest motherboard ram is slower than sending it directly through the GPU. (Assuming that's the way it works). I'm equally sure faster ram in general would help. The next set of tests I'm planning will be putting

ACID

25 answers, most recent on 6/12/2022

RE: Acid Pro 10 doesn't recognize mp3 files and won't render as mp3.

@Russell-Simmons So, my advice is still the same: send one of the problem mp3s to Support and let them have a look at it. You also need to be aware that not all mp3s are created equal! You admit that not all your mp3s are a problem, which serves to

Movie Studio

28 answers, most recent on 3/28/2020

RE: Moving/slotting images and transitions in Timeline Mode

@FF22 I am by comparison to most here, relatively new to using any Video editing software, coming mainly from photography into video as my upgraded cameras gained decent video quality output. I personally only consider upgrading software if it no

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 3/19/2020

RE: Any chance to rollback the latest Magix Video Update?

Not really, but you could do a thorough uninstall and reload the program from the servers. That way you should start with an earlier version. Then it is a case of stopping MEP from updating. Equally it could be any one of the newer Windows updates

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 4/18/2020

RE: Magix Freezes / Non-responsive for 1-minute EVERYTIME it's opened!! :@

@Apollo89x What about available C: drive hard space? That can cause freezing of the program when opening as it loads. When did you last de-fragment your hard drives? Files are more easily read and written to contiguous portions of drive regardless

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 3/8/2020

RE: [Closed] unable to update vegas pro 17.

@emmrecs Hi Jeff, Thanks for leaving it up. I know that some users on the Vegas forum, Eric in particular, are equally wondering how come some Vegas users end up here instead of there. Hopefully we can figure out how the system can be

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 4/16/2020

RE: VPX Setting, Adjusting and Analyzing Loudness - Plugins

@Craigster Hi Craig, Yes, I have Samplitude Pro X3 Suite. I took a look at the Loudness Meter and there is no graph, only the readout, so the two other tools would be helpful. The YouLean Meter can be adjusted to the desired level with the paid-for

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 4/16/2020

RE: VPX Setting, Adjusting and Analyzing Loudness - Plugins

Hi Ray, Didn't you read the first paragraph that I forgot to include? No? Then I had better add it. I finished a video last week that contains a lot of narration and music from different sources. I had a lot of trouble balancing the loudness to get

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 4/16/2020

VPX Setting, Adjusting and Analyzing Loudness - Plugins

Discussion on Adjusting and Checking Loudness in VPX11 The Peak Meter in the Mixer of VPX is difficult to work with for any accuracy; there is no indication of actual levels other than the blinking or steady lights. Finding peaks and knowing the

SOUND FORGE

16 answers, most recent on 11/28/2020

RE: Setting LUFS levels

Interesting discussion, guys. What I've found works for now is normalising twice: first time using RMS (have used equal loudness contour, but haven't tried without) and then using peak. I kept doing this with different RMS levels until SF's

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 2/10/2020

RE: Will be off line for a while.

@CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . import the video clips I'm using into the project folder, any proxy files will reside in the project folder but if I leave the files in use on another drive the proxy files are put in that folder instead. . . . . Yes. . . . .

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 2/10/2020

RE: Will be off line for a while.

@johnebaker Hi John. So you are saying if I import the video clips I'm using into the project folder, any proxy files will reside in the project folder but if I leave the files in use on another drive the proxy files are put in that folder instead.

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 2/10/2020

RE: Will be off line for a while.

@johnebaker @browj2 @pmikep So for me this is getting interesting again. I looked at your reply and tried the following. First I tried copying a project that had no imported files to my M.2 drive (J). The project loaded very fast but was sluggish to

SOUND FORGE

6 answers, most recent on 2/3/2020

RE: Sound Forge 8 to Sound Forge Pro 13 questions before I upgrade?

Thank you all for your advice and comments.I am very fluent in v8.0 but looking at v13, and thinking of jumping in and upgrading on a better PC.One of my other problems, is that as v13 is 64-bit, does SF have its own wrapper for older 32-bit plug

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 2/2/2020

RE: initial video settings

@pucklogic The standard approach is to use project settings equal to planned export/burn settings. That way, everything is set up for the export, including titles and effects, or something like that. I use a template project with all settings, track

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 1/30/2020

RE: MEP20 Win10 Mp4 speed issue

@Reid-Fox Hi . . . . . It breaks the files into 4GB chunks they all work but that one file . . . . . With the exception of the encoding time the data for the 2 files are perfectly identical, which is impossible to achieve with 2 separate

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 1/15/2020

RE: VPX11 - Luminance, RGB curve, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma

@CubeAce Hi Ray, As I indicated in the other thread, here is what happens to the image in the snow when I raise the luminance using the RGB curve" Before: After with the top of the RGB curve moved to X=170.3. That is, input = 170.3, output =

Movie Studio

52 answers, most recent on 4/8/2020

RE: Audio problem with playback of old .avi files

@johnebaker Hi John. My PC browser is Firefox and retains previous visits unless I empty the cache manually. Still only Peter is missing. Not keen on Edge yet. This hasn't happened on any other site I visit but then contact here is possibly closest

Samplitude

3 answers, most recent on 12/29/2019

RE: Pro X4 not working with version 2017

Before answering, let me thank you for your effort to reply. People tend to get upset when they found out they have bought an expensive upgrade which doesn't apply to expectations as advertised at all. Not only my expectations but expectations as

Samplitude

3 answers, most recent on 12/29/2019

Pro X4 not working with version 2017

Why is pro x4 not functioning with .vip files which are made with samplitude 2017? This is a big disappointment. Yeah of course you can open the files in pro x4. But all the vst effect settings are not synchronized. Looks like x4 does not recognise

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 1/1/2020

RE: Media files shows WAV data, but top of screen reads "empty"

@David.Rambaldi1 David, are you still there? Has your problem been resolved? If not, I suggest the following: Start a new project Import just one wave file onto the timeline Does it playback ok? Was there any message? If so, exactly what did you