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@johnebaker @Marc-Goder @AAProds @CubeAce @Gid Hi Guys,I think I have determined how/why some of you can play these XAVC files with audio and others can't. While you profess that you have never installed K-lite (and I believe you) you have installed

SOUND FORGE

31 answers, most recent on 4/17/2026

Sound Forge alternatives

I've been using Sound Forge since 1995 (Sonic Foundry - Sound Forge 3). Its been a fantastic workhorse for editing and managing stereo files (I use Cubase for multi-track as well as various Izotope products). They went through Sony and now Magix. I

Music Maker

9 answers, most recent on 7/12/2023

[Solved] Oh why did I press the update button...

I had a fully working older Music Maker version 2021 with windows 11. Few days ago I did a mistake of my life and pressed update button. Result: -VST icons gone-cannot open VST instruments interface -any midi driver won't work I logged out and in

Music Maker

17 answers, most recent on 10/1/2024

RE: [Closed] Why can't I start Music Maker?

You don't know what you are writing!! hehe...and where does Magix say that Music Maker is a program for creating background music for videos and streaming podcasts? Huh? On the Magic website they write and falsely state that it is a program even for

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 6/17/2024

RE: Movie Studio 2025 Platinum - Text To Speech - Perpetual Licence?

Further information re AI Tools yesterday, as John states they are included but seemingly with only a "limited" amount of useable life I don't think this is mentioned in the Magix blurb. Apparently I can manage the quota in "My Profile". From what

ACID

3 answers, most recent on 1/1/2026

RE: Missing ExpressFX Reverb DLL in ACID Pro 8.0.12 on Windows 11 Home

@Andrew-Goode Thank you for the additional information. Every little detail helps! First, there is no phone number for Magix Support, sorry! Many years ago there used to be but it has long been discontinued, presumably because it was felt to be not

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 6/27/2025

Trying to sync some audio

I am trying to put together of some game play from a friend and myself. we were both recording, and I'd like to put both videos together. I can not for the life of me get them to sync together properly. I understand that a video frame can't be

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 6/17/2024

RE: Movie Studio 2025 Platinum - Text To Speech - Perpetual Licence?

@me_again Hi Andy . . . . AI Tools yesterday, as John states they are included but seemingly with only a "limited" amount of useable life . . . . Not quite - only the items in your image are limited - see here, the AI Styletransfer and AI Colorize

Movie Studio

29 answers, most recent on 7/6/2024

RE: Magix Movie suite 2024 changes

@terrerad Hi. There was a time when Magix would offer different bundles of third party plugin effects at various intervals during that product's lifespan. I got Mercalli V5 as a free third party plugin with limited two year life span with MMS 2024

ACID

9 answers, most recent on 6/14/2023

[Solved] ACID Pro 10 vs 11... vs ACID Music Studio 11?

Hello all, Back from a very mixed experience of going Apple Mac for a handful of years...Now back to Windows 10 with new SSD upgrade to buy time until life affords me ability to get a newer Windows machine. I own and have reinstalled ACID Pro 10 and

SOUND FORGE

7 answers, most recent on 5/13/2024

Denon x1800 mixer

I am trying to record a mix from my Denon x1800 to my Sound Forge 18 application and for the life of me I cant get it to meter in any way. I have made sure the sample rate is the same but I just can get it to record. Its so weird as I can get it

Photo & Graphic Designer

5 answers, most recent on 5/9/2024

RE: patch to v18

Hi, I was using version 18. I went to look for an update. I saw that you separated from Magix. I purchased version 20 for life and at a discount! But before, I had uninstalled version 18. 2 things I did wrong! I was disappointed with version 20

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

The other point for @Gid about Vegas numbering, track numbers exist. If Vegas were to change the numbering from bottom to top, then it would make more sense. As a VMS user for eight years I've never used or referred to the track numbers. I consider

Photostory

11 answers, most recent on 1/7/2024

RE: SOS!!!!

I gave up with both the 2023 and the 2024 versions. Too many new features that make life more difficult and other things not working properly or as you would expect. The 2022 Photostory is more stable and so much easier to use.

SOUND FORGE

16 answers, most recent on 3/28/2025

RE: slow down on exported music

Hi Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512 GDDR5 Desktop-DJB9FOH, Gigabyte WP45T-UD3P Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Monitor: Hewlett-Packard S2031, 1024 x 768 (Analog) SOUND FORGE Audio Studio 16 (x64) Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 I have to say when

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 9/15/2023

RE: MMS/MEP will not import this MP2 Audio

OK, thanks all, I'll put it down to dodgy encoding in a previous life. I'll redo it with AAC.

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 8/12/2024

RE: SPEED video effect not working properly with key frames

@johnebaker, You are a life saver! I couldn't figure out how to "turn on" the Speed keyframes until I watched your video. I never noticed this bug before since I usually have more than one effect on a clip and would naturally click on each effect in

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 12/9/2024

RE: How to not hear myself while recording.

@Lambc Welcome to the Magix users forums. Although you've not specified exactly what hardware you are using to hear yourself, headphones or speakers etc., I think you need to consider eliminating the delay, known as latency, rather than turning off

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 6/6/2024

RE: Is Movie Studio 2025 Platinum a stand alone program or an upgrade?

@Eric-Elliott Hi. It's unlikely that Movie Studio 2024 will be discontinued any time soon as it was designed to work on both Win10 and Win 11 but I suppose it is not currently still under development and all programs have limited life spans which

Music Maker

17 answers, most recent on 10/1/2024

RE: [Closed] Why can't I start Music Maker?

I restarted my PC at least 10 times :-) and uninstalled Music Maker and reinstalled it 3 times and still can't start the program. I also tried your advice and removed musicmaker.ini and also no success :-) but thank you. You gave me an idea and I

ACID

6 answers, most recent on 12/18/2022

[Solved] How to restore the "Recorded Files" dialog box in ACID Music Studio 10

By default, every time you hit the "Stop" button while recording an audio file, a small window/box pops up and asks which files you want to keep and which to delete. There's a checkbox in the lower left corner that says "Show after every recording

Rescue Your Videotapes!

20 answers, most recent on 9/9/2023

RE: Driver besides the default Win 11 (messed)

I agree, not an acceptable solution using an third-party audio route. Besides networking, recording computer audio is the greatest curse of Windows, IMO. Having the audio routed through the digitiser/dongle makes life so much easier.

SOUND FORGE

19 answers, most recent on 2/22/2024

RE: Soundforge 17 Trial just won't launch. Windows 10.

Thanks so much - I have done the reset and that doesn't work. To be honest, if moving my VSTs (2500 of them) is required then there is something severely wrong with SF17 - I have never in my life had to do that to get a DAW to work. Magix has to fix

Movie Studio

33 answers, most recent on 3/6/2025

RE: Odd Autosave Behavious with MS 2025 version 239

@me_again, @browj2 Hi . . . . convinced there's a pronlem with autosave . . . . Assuming your computer Power Management plans have not been altered, leaving the project open and not doing anything on the computer will result in Windows Power