• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  John EB, you did it! It works. Thanks bunches. Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as follows Place the lower third clip onto the timeline, below the
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi All MEP doesn't support alpha channel video, unfortunately, only images. Not so! MEP has always worked with a 32bit RGBA (A=Alpha channel) AVI dropped on the track below the video, without having to apply any further Alpha or Chroma key
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi Jerry, Put it on a higher numbered track, select it, go to Effects, Video effects, Chroma key, and click on Black. The only problem is that the black part around the glow is black instead of transparent. See below. This can be
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @ jdycus . . . . I'd like to email you the lower third to see if you can make it work. Do you have MEP 2015? . . . . I agree with Terry can you upload a sample of the lower third you want to use for us to test, and yes I do have MEP
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Thanks for response, John. I guess I'm missing something, but can't get it to work. No problem sizing, but when I apply video effects/chroma key/alpha, no go. I've tried adjusting the thresholds & video level to no avail. I'd like to email you
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 6/26/2015

  RE: Impressive performance with Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Tablet and MEP2015
  Hi John Thanks for the feedback. I have been comparing the specs of the Pro2 with my Pro3 and the main difference is the Pro2 has a 4200U I5 with base clock of 1.6Ghz / Max 2.5Ghz against my 4300U with a 1.9 / Max 2.9Ghz clock. However MS has
• Video Pro X

  7 answers, most recent on 6/23/2015

  RE: Disc Space
  You mention not wanting to upgrade VPX to 7 because you want better chroma key settings. Could you add to this comment in the VPX forum or open a new topic in the VPX forum about this? I would like to know what you would like and what other
• Video Pro X

  7 answers, most recent on 6/23/2015

  RE: Disc Space
  Hi, Trying – I’m not sure why it reads ‘CD’ when I clearly selected the choice for DVD, and have only had DVD-R and DVD-RW’s burned. So I’m not burning a CD, but for some odd reason, Magix is calling the disc a ‘CD’. Hi, Emmrecs – I’m on VPX 5
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 6/11/2015

  RE: Green screen picture in front JPG digital camera clip
  Hi Michael Is the video camera green screen picture video or a still image? If a still image then you shoulld be able to achieve what you want in Xara 9   Make a copy of the digital camera file and open it in Xara 9   Add the green
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 6/5/2015

  RE: I have several. Collor correction with Croma Key and Cropping
  I can see from your first picture that you have used chroma key to place the man against a background of the sky and flowers.  What I don't understand is why the man in your second picture is shown as extremely "pink" nor why you need to "crop"
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/2/2015

  RE: MEP2014 help me understand masks !
  Thank you browj2, the trick was to NOT load the mask through pop down menu "LOAD MASK", but to drag and drop it like any other object, I already named the mask file with xxx_alpha.jpg and the chroma key was automatically applied, I didn't need to
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 4/2/2015

  RE: How do you make a PNG File
  Michael, You do not generally need a PNG file, any image format will do as long as: 1. The background color is one that can be set to ...'be hidden' in the Effects >>Video effects >> Chroma key menu. 2. The transparent color
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 3/7/2015

  RE: Effect on the Picture
  Hello friends,  I discoved somethig new and interesting as well. Wanted to share.  There are total SIX tracks • Track 1 and 4: Place the main background video / picture. (The file in No 1 track must be bit longer). • Track 3 and 5: Place
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 3/7/2015

  RE: Effect on the Picture
  Hi Anirban, At my point 3, I should have indicated that this is a transparent png file. This one corresponds to my point 6, and is the white text that is placed on track 2. There is no need to give it a chroma key effect, since all that shows up
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 2/13/2015

  RE: Using Chromakey and having a bad hair day! Help you Chromakey users!
  Hi If you use the "Colour" button at the top of the Chroma Key effect window instead of Blue or Green, then select an area of the Blue or Green screen, you will get additional control "Antispill" that will give you much more control over
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 2/13/2015

  RE: Using Chromakey and having a bad hair day! Help you Chromakey users!
  Hi If you use the "Colour" button at the top of the Chroma Key effect window instead of Blue or Green, then select an area of the Blue or Green screen, you will get additional control "Antispill" that will give you much more control over the
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 2/15/2015

  RE: How do I create and insert what is usually a small logo in the corner of the screen using Video Pro Plus?
  Hi Assuming you have, or can make and save, the logo as a still image using either the jpg format or if you require a transparent background a png format file. Add the still image to a lower empty track on the timeline, resize and position it
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 1/28/2015

  RE: Outputting Alpha Channel Videos for Website
  Hi, I'm curious as to what you mean. Could you post a screen shot of an example or give a link to an example? I would have thought that the person was just being filmed against a green screen and the resulting video overlaid onto the main
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 1/28/2015

  Outputting Alpha Channel Videos for Website
  I see this effect a lot and in all the iterations and releases of MAGIX over the year, I have not seen reference to outputing the video with a transparent alpha channel so a character chatting on a webpage can appear independent of the rectangle
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 1/16/2015

  RE: create curved screen smilebox effect from anamorphic video
  screwfidel, The resize and stretch are easy using 'Effects' >> 'Size/Position' as shown below. I didn't have any anamorphic clips to use so I chose a familiar circle to demonstrate the stretch. I've used values in % as it was easier.
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 12/31/2014

  RE: I would like to merge two videos to make one
  Hi, Here is another idea but more complicated. Copy the alpha effects folders in C:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro 2014 Plus\VideoEffects\EffectAlphaMasks to Documents\Magix projects and give it a name that you will remember. You will want
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 12/8/2014

  RE: proDAD - Sizing query
  Hi Terry . . . . Maybe a massive file re-sizing exercise would work? . . . . Try this Start a MEP project import the images to the timeline, resize to 1920 wide, reposition so Left -= 0, Top = -240px and set image length to 1 frame.  Export
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 4/4/2015

  RE: How to draw onto video?
  themodeller, A static arrow etc is easy. You create your drawing in any art program or find some clip art on the web -- this arrow was done in Windows Paint, : Next place it under (higher number track) your video where it is to appear and