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@me_again Hi Andy. The use of Chroma Key is a fudge for MMS and VPX. Ideally you need a video editor that allows different blending modes on the overlaying track. Then Multiply or Overlay can work much better. Three overlapping tracks produces too

Movie Studio

90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track

Show me the logic here, you seriously think this is correct .?? Two videos, each has a png overlay positioned so they start at the beginning of each video, Change picture length & all sync is lost, on a longer project it would cause

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@Reyfox No, you miss the point. In Vegas, your background goes on the lower track, foreground or overlay on a higher track. Right? It doesn't have to be the bottom track. That should have gone without saying. In MMS/VPX, you don't have to have the

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 8/12/2024

RE: Insanely stupid question - Graphic overlay

Thanks John. Sure, that could be used too. The reality is that I wanted the overlay so that I had the exact position of the box over a complex page. Bottom line is that your text box would work. But, I should be able to drop a transparent PNG file

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

RE: MMS 2025 Suite - BCC Boris FX Chroma Key Studio

@Clinton-Peck For the green bit on his T-shirt that gets keyed out I added another copy of the clip then Sectioned just that part to use it as an overlay.

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 10/10/2025

RE: Video Deluxe 2026 Premium

@philh77 Hi Thanks for the MediaInfo, which helps in that it tells us what the video is not, ie it does not have an Alpha (Transparency) channel. From the effect clips website the only comment I can find on usage is 'change blending (composition

Video Pro X

165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

RE: [Closed] Website Observation

There was a discussion about OFX implementation in both MMS and VPX, with the blame on BorisFX. So I asked on the Boris forum about this and received an answer from their Senior Product Manager making it clear that it was a Magix issue. Even with

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@Former user I said that the timeline/tracks is like a spreadsheet. That is an analogy. You do not build your spreadsheets from the bottom up. What I show on the spreadsheet is pretty much identical to the image VPX timeline. 1 is the lowest number

Movie Studio

84 answers, most recent on 8/5/2024

RE: Linking "videos" or "projects" question

@Can-Dive Hi, Yes, patience. As far as I can tell, Eric's projects are quite limited, with 1 or more photos or video clips plus narration. Nothing fancy, no overlays, masks, collages at the beginning (or anywhere else). If he can make a transition

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@browj2 The only reason you do that in that spreadsheet is because that is how Magix works, this has nothing to do with how you would construct a spreadsheet or how one works, you can construct a spreadsheet in pretty much any order you want

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 2/19/2026

Activating the "Extra" (included) effects packages in Movie Studio 202

I have tried contacting NewBlue, proDAD, and Magix for support (the latter cannot even create a support ticket - "The support request could not be saved."). I bought Magix Movie Studio 2024 Suite on 29 December 2025. I have today (18th Feb 2026)

Video Pro X

62 answers, most recent on 5/15/2025

RE: Should I choose Video Pro X or Vegas Pro?

If you do want to export to m2ts, is there a specific reason for that? Ray. My thoughts too. @ghijohansson I would download the trial versions of both software and see which one fits your needs and the way you edit. "Intuitive" is purely

Video Pro X

58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule

Yes. And again, I can do the exact same thing in PS26. But the nomenclature is different. That's all. The difference is, I'd be creating everything within the project. Add what I want and next it, creating a new project. The results are exactly the

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

Hi Guys,I certainly didn't expect or intend my suggestion of the option of adding video overlays on top of the main video track to be so controversial. I was not suggesting current MMS/VPX users to change their editing process/preference. It was

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

RE: MMS 2025 Suite - BCC Boris FX Chroma Key Studio

@Clinton-Peck For the green bit on his T-shirt that gets keyed out I added another copy of the clip then Sectioned just that part to use it as an overlay. I was wondering how you got around that. Watching the videos now, it's quite impressive.

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 3/18/2024

RE: Wacom And Magix

@CLINT-DANBURY Hi, Unfortunately, probably not. You need to create a transparent overlay file in something, save it as a png file and import it into the video editor. You can import an image from the video, same size as the video, and draw over it

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 7/28/2024

Issues with super fast videos or delayed audios

Using Magix Movie Studio 2024 and I am a new user of the software. I've tried twice now to create projects by stringing several made mp4's together. The first project made the first mp4 in the string run super fast, the second attempt made the audio

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@browj2 You're argument doesn't hold, you're clutching at straws there, that's just left to right reading order nothing to with 'overlays' as in this thread, & actually goes against what you were saying about putting the description on the line

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 7/2/2024

RE: BCC Witness protection for blurring faces, just sharing.

@CubeAce Hi, I did suspect that & is why I showed Taskmanager, Yes you can remove unwanted masks but not in MMS, you can open Mocha where a mask can be created that excludes/includes (Inverted mask) chosen areas. In MMS you'd have to duplicate

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 11/5/2024

RE: NewBlue updates

@johnebaker the 'updates' from v3 to v5 are not accepting the serial numbers I have That's the exact problem I had with Elements Overlay 3 to 5. As I've mentioned above, I did a quick email to NewBlue support (actually not an email, it was through

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@Can-Dive was not advocating to have the track layout reversed, but that maybe it could be an option. The entire "professional" world of video editing has always had "overlays" (and that is the correct terminology) placed over a track. Someone will

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 2/16/2024

RE: [Solved] Frame around Preview Editing Screen

@Xenofex2 Hi George . . . . Effects/Movie Settings/and then tick ‘show screen in preview monitor’ that this will automatically set it to whatever ratio I am working in, in this case 5:4? . . . . This will put an overlay on the preview monitor

Movie Studio

One answer, on 5/15/2024

How to turn on 'scrubbing'?

When I move the cursor position indicator along the video - I don't hear the audio. I used to hear this - useful to position images in line with text overlay. I think this is called scrubbing. I have just updated the app. I have forgotten the

Video Pro X

175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs

@Gid welcome back! 🙂 I'm familiar with Resolve and my proposal is not trying to turn this product into Davinci Resolve although Resolve and Vegas follow the conventional overlay logic. I referred to my proposal as "Centre-out" because "Bottom-up"