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I have Audio Cleaning Lab 2013 installed on my Windows 7 machine and recently this error message popped up while attempting to listen to a music file: "The wave shape device: speakers / headphones Realtek cannot be opened for playback. Reason?

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 2/3/2025

RE: Edited video length

Ok, this is the information I was looking for. Thank you so much. I definitely like the idea of putting it on a DVD other than the USB thumb drive. I already do use DVD-RW discs for saving my YouTube videos so I have backups. It was just what I had

SOUND FORGE

4 answers, most recent on 5/21/2024

RE: How do I reduce the file size with Sound Forge 14 please?

Hi @JennyPxyz, "File> Save as", choose MP3 in the 'Save as type' field and choose a current preset from the list, If you wish to modify the preset's encode parameters, select 'Custom'. Tip; if the material is spoken word (or other non-stereo

SOUND FORGE

12 answers, most recent on 9/23/2025

RE: Sound Forge Pro 14 Multichannel FLAC Support

@Timbre4 FLAC files are popular, this doesn't strike me as an unreasonable request to provide a multi-channel FLAC save option Although not affected by this at all, I think you are correct; it is not, in my opinion, an unreasonable request, though

Movie Studio

35 answers, most recent on 11/12/2024

RE: What Apple format: Apple ProRes or HEVC codecs can Movie Studio run?

@Gid Yup my iPhone files will at times send my Magix into a weird, spastic save bar when I save a project. I hate to have to rely on anything Apple as I was around when the Macintosh made graphic design a whole lot better, but everything was too

Movie Studio

47 answers, most recent on 8/24/2025

RE: "Takes" functionality

@Pete-Lowland Hi I rarely use Takes or In/Out points, ie set a Range as I find they are tedious and increase my editing time My method is to put all the videos, and images if also part of the project, in the order required and use any combination of

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 10/8/2024

RE: Sound Forge Minimal Video tools; what do I need next?

I thought I'd attempt a Save As operation but didn't get that far when I saw the Trial Version was limited to 2 minute duration. That is a "Render as" limitation. 'Save' or 'Save as', creates the <.veg> timeline project file. No limitations

Rescue Your Videotapes!

2 answers, most recent on 4/3/2024

RE: New computer, Rescue your videotapes version 4

Thank you John. It was saved in MXV so hopefully will open in Video saver.

Xara Designer Pro

15 answers, most recent on 2/9/2025

RE: Error when publishing website

I saved the file under another name then deleted the top of one file and bottom of the other.

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 2/3/2025

RE: Edited video length

Ok, Good to know. If I saved it to the thumb drive after it's finished editing and then transfer it to a DVD would it be okay that way. I've never edited something that big before. I wanted to have it as one continuous video but I know 8 hours of

Music Maker

7 answers, most recent on 6/14/2026

RE: Magix Music Maker 2026 Premium – Software Becomes Unresponsive

Hi SP, Thank you for your response. To clarify, I am not using OneDrive, Google Drive, or any other cloud-based backup or synchronization service on either of my computers. I am also not saving projects to any cloud storage location that could be

SOUND FORGE

11 answers, most recent on 5/26/2025

RE: Volume automation - Sound Forge 18 Pro

@Paul-Fegan Excellent! Yeah, SF18 seems to be somewhat sensitive. I also got an error message pop-up after changing EffectOptions.DialogFirst back to EffectOptions.EffectOnly and running the script the first time. The only problem is, if you want to

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 10/28/2025

RE: error manager installer

@Mikhail-Novoselov Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. First, can you explain where you downloaded the trial version of VdL 22 Plus from? The latest release is VdL 2026, version 25, and I know of nowhere where one may legitimately still

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 11/16/2024

Edit pro 17 rotation/mirror effect

When I import portrait video from my iPhone it goes on its side. I have tried using the rotation/mirror effect I can set it upright. However when closing and reopening the program it reverts on to its side, not saving the effect. Am I doing

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 1/26/2023

[Solved] Saving-Using Overlays MEP2016 Plus

Thank you John and Ray on the last question concerning Plug In's ... I decided to download a few free overlays regarding 'Aged Film' which I saved to a desktop folder. Should I move/add the contents to the folder 'Movie looks' within MEP? Then drag

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 5/10/2024

MMS2024 - save as take!

Hi, I cut an interval from a video and commanded "save as take" (shift + k). When I used it in another project, simply after adding it to the timeline the sound was not displayed. Is this correct?Repeating the operation with the original video and

SOUND FORGE

38 answers, most recent on 10/8/2024

RE: Sound Forge Minimal Video tools; what do I need next?

Saving as .MOV in SF15 as the only output format that 'looks' like a 'modern' video (sorry, format or container; don't know proper term) prompts that Quicktime is missing. Link to install QT v. 7.7.9 fails on its own criteria because something is

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 1/17/2023

[Solved] a bug decoding 220kbp mp3

a bug on sound forge pro 16 suite - when i open an mp3 with a 220kbps, the sound gets all distorted some chunks of the song are not played, I own Sound forge pro 11.(build 299), and the same file opens with no problems. If i save the file without

Video Pro X

33 answers, most recent on 9/25/2024

RE: Under Effects, using "Auto-exposure" doesn't tell you what it has done

@CubeAce, @simmiv, @AAProds, @johnebaker, @browj2, Dear all, I myself have not yet really delved into the Automatic Exposure. I usually adjust my colours manually with all other attributes. Sometimes I save the video effect setting (colours), so

Rescue Your Videotapes!

10 answers, most recent on 2/7/2023

[Solved] Program crashes when 100% saved - result video not playable

I was able to create one recording from VHS tape succesfully, but then all my subsequent attemps are failing. I can record the mpg just fine. Then when saving the movie (with hardware acceleration) to disk, it goes all the way to 100%. But then the

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 7/5/2024

RE: Splitting Bug?

@Gid Thanks for that, I've worked out what I am doing wrong. I'm saving the fade as a Video Effect and then loading it on another clip, but only the video is being faded. Understandable, I suppose, since it's not technically an audio effect, even

SOUND FORGE

13 answers, most recent on 11/4/2024

RE: Last used preset for Effects and Processes

@Marius-Itimovici @john_barr What shall I do to have the last presset selected next time when I want to use an EFX or Process? Have you tried to simply save it as a new user preset? This is workaround, not definitive solution. Old sound forge

Video Pro X

25 answers, most recent on 2/11/2026

RE: Cannot start VPX17 by double-clicking on MVP file

@browj2 Hi John, I can't reproduce your first problem: "I cannot start VPX17 by double-clicking on the MVP file." I'll try to make a video. Your second problem: "If I put an audio file, .mxcogg, purchased from the Magix Store, that shows up under

Video Pro X

13 answers, most recent on 4/16/2025

RE: Saving Custom Window Arrangement - saving main and sub navigation?

@johnebaker No navigation options - the same as "My view", the current open tab and subsection stays open. Confirmed Main navigation only - "My templates", the My Templates tab opens, the subsection is the last used. Confirmed Main + Sub navigation