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@LeCanadien Hi See my signature for my PC spec - the NVidia graphics card is not necessary for MEP - it cannot use it, and is in my system for a different program. I edit 4K video without playback issues in MEP with the system I have. I would add to

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 3/19/2020

RE: Adjusting alpha masks within the movie editing suite?

@Former user @Scenestealer @johnebaker Here is the tutorial for creating masks using Xara Designer Pro X or Xara Photo & Graphics Designer. You can make multiple, moving, resizable masks, with changing transparency, but not feather-edging. Yes,

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 3/19/2020

RE: Adjusting alpha masks within the movie editing suite?

@Former user Hi There is an exchange function that uses Xara Designer Pro in conjunction VPX (and MEP?) to transfer a movie sequence from the timeline to the graphics program and create a dynamic moving mask to match and then return this to the

Xara Designer Pro

2 answers, most recent on 3/16/2020

RE: Xara Designer Pro X: Extra margin added when export as EMF file

Hi Johnebaker, Unfortunately I am stuck with using EMF files. I want to use Vector Graphics and can not use SVG in my application. One way forward might be to edit SVG files and then convert them to EMF. o InkScape (version .0.92.4 and

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 3/9/2020

RE: trying to update the 2019 to 2020 but get error code 57

@Richard-Schmitter Hi I concur with @Scenestealer's comment MEP and VPX come with their own h.265 codecs. The activation of the encoder is fee based for MEP. VPX 10 and VPX 11 it is installed and activation is included - I assume these are what you

Web Designer

No answers, created on 3/8/2020

How Do I solve my computer err to installing website builder

Hello Guys! I am getting an error during the installation with one one the software product offered by Magix (Xara Web Designer) and CoffeeCup ( Site Designer software. Unfortunately, was getting an error duriig the time of installation and I have

Movie Studio

26 answers, most recent on 3/10/2020

RE: Where did the key frames go for Title Templates?

@pmikep Please reread what I wrote and look at the tutorial. Xara 3D Maker is not Xara Designer Pro X or Photo & Graphics Designer. John CB

Other products

3 answers, most recent on 3/7/2020

RE: Xara Xtreme

@Donald-Anderson Hi and welcome to the forum . . . . Will these programs operate with Windows 10? . . . . Assuming you were running the Linux or Mac OS X version then they will not run on Windows. Extreme has been replaced with Photo and Graphics

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 2/28/2020

RE: Licensing after a Win10 update?

Just a precision, if you reinstall after the Update Service period has expired, you get the version with any updates (new features) that were available when you last paid. I can't say for the bug patches, but I think that you would get them for that

Photo & Graphic Designer

No answers, created on 2/19/2020

Red RAW (CR2) Pictures

Hi there, I have researched online for solutions to having red saturated RAW pictures in contrast to the same picture in JPEG form, but I haven't found any viable solutions or even satisfactory explanations. I have seen videos of people editing the

Video Pro X

2 answers, most recent on 9/1/2020

VPX and Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium - Plugins

Some users have asked about plugins and some other useful programs available for use with Magix VPX11 and Movie Edit Pro Plus/Premium 2020. Below are listings, Video, then Audio, then linked and third party software, of those that I am aware of.

Photo & Graphic Designer

No answers, created on 2/13/2020

Renew Update Service fails to Install

My Update Service is linked to my program, but automatic updates has now expired. However, everytime I start Photo & Graphic Designer, the "Renew the Update Service" window appears and states: "Installs the latest version of the Update Service

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 1/26/2020

RE: New PC Specification

@jonnypb Hi Movie Edit pro is designed to use Intel processors and integrated GPU for Hardware acceleration (HWA), the spec you have put together will not give you HWA and you will be disappointed in the performance of the AMD based system. See the

Web Designer

12 answers, most recent on 1/25/2020

RE: Slideshow widget can only work with 500 MB

Hi Barry Thanks for the additional information. A couple of potential causes are: The amount of RAM in your system, at 4GB you may well be close to running out of RAM. Windows will take between 1.5 and 2GB straight away, the amount of memory in your

Web Designer

12 answers, most recent on 1/25/2020

RE: Slideshow widget can only work with 500 MB

Hi John, Thanks for the fast response: the message from Support simply said 'the slideshow widget can only work with 500MB' no other information. I have not found any reference to this in the Web Designer Premium manual. I have been using the Fade

Movie Studio

67 answers, most recent on 2/11/2020

RE: Movie Edit Pro :.: 19.0.2.49

@CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . Earlier you showed me an image with this. . . . . The image above is the 3DMaker Help file not the one I posted ie this In the location you referred to ie . . . . You need to look in c: \ Program Files \ MAGIX \ Movie Edit

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: [Closed] Not happy with Magix

@johnebaker I'm using Xara Designer Pro X 16. Graphics part should be the same as P&G. In the first case, how did you create the new document? I used New Photo. When I drag and drop or import a transparent png, I get no white part, so I'm

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: [Closed] Not happy with Magix

@browj2 Hi John Photo and Graphic Designer appears to be capable of displaying transparency in png files, however:- Added I have just seen your post about saving as Template, however if it can display the transparency as seen above why cannot it do

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: [Closed] Not happy with Magix

@browj2 Hi John Thanks for the correction. @Andrew-Constant Apologies for the wrong program. . . . . I suppose you're right, but we wouldn't do that . . . . You may not, however there are some who would unfortunately. The EULA for Xara Photo and

Off topic

5 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: Happy Holidays!

@Andrew-Constant You have also posted about your problems with Photo and Graphic Designer in the correct forum. There is absolutely no point in duplicating your post in another forum area, hence I have hidden it. As pointed out to you in your other

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: [Closed] Not happy with Magix

@johnebaker Hi John, I believe that Andrew means Xara Photo & Graphic Designer, not Photo Manager. @Andrew-Constant Normally, there is a 14 day return period, I believe. However, the problem with Xara may be that, as soon as you register, you

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

RE: [Closed] Not happy with Magix

@Andrew-Constant Hi . . . . so I purchased Photo and Graphic Designer . . . . Did you test using the trial version of the software? . . . . Unfortunately it doesn't work in a conventional way, so it's not much use to us . . . . What do you mean by

Photo & Graphic Designer

28 answers, most recent on 12/11/2019

[Closed] Not happy with Magix

I've use several other Magix products for many years now, so I purchased Photo and Graphic Designer. Unfortunately it doesn't work in a conventional way, so it's not much use to us. Within 2 hours of purchasing, we asked Magix for a refund. They

Movie Studio

30 answers, most recent on 11/30/2019

RE: No hardware encoding with Intel HD 530

@johnebaker Thanks John. 1) As I said earlier my HD530 was nearly maxed out at 90 - 100%. Was there any activity at all on your Nvidia? 2) Very similar to my results. @CubeAce That activate video output should be deselected as this is designed to