• Off topic

  9 answers, most recent on 7/5/2013

  RE: How to insert футажи with an alpha the channel?
    ev1949, You can certainly import .png images with inbuilt alpha channels (transparency masks). They are regularly used for adding decorative borders. If your футажи (footage) is a video clip with the same type of tarnsparency mask I'd
• Off topic

  9 answers, most recent on 7/5/2013

  RE: How to insert футажи with an alpha the channel?
  ev1949, You can certainly import .png images with inbuilt alpha channels (transparency masks). They are regularly used for adding decorative borders. If your футажи (footage) is a video clip with the same type of tarnsparency mask I'd say all
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 6/22/2013

  RE: How to remove "white border" around images?
  1) On the problem of not being able to "update" or "patch" - this is a screen shot of my "help" menu. Am I missing the obvious?   2) On the border issue; Yes Andy, you're right - I want the eye to wander around etc. I've gone in to
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 6/17/2013

  RE: Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013 Chroma Key Not Working?
  Hi, Use a paint program to check the background is filling with uniform color. In near all paint programs you have an eyedropper tool or a color pick up tool. From your grab picture open in a paint program and use the eyedropper to check the
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 6/22/2013

  How to remove "white border" around images?
  Hi all, I'm new to "Movie Edit Pro"... and I'm struggling. I have created a project which is PAL 4:3/ 25 fps. In a separate programme I have created a number of still images on a transparent background, and then saved them to PNG files (to
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 6/1/2013

  RE: I can't seem to remove the white thin-line frame in my editing monitor. I keeps me from making any adjustment to titles and/or photos outside of this perminent frame.
  To make adjustments outside frame: Right-click in the videotrack and take away mark at Border cropping adjustment. To take away the frame: Click on top Effects > Movie effects settings > Tab TV cropping and take away a mark at Show
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 4/13/2013

  RE: Is it possible to crop without zooming?
  Hi John.  Thanks so much for the instructions and s-caps. Cropping, etc. .... I don't want the borders.  It took some tries, but I finally got it to your "specs."  It still looks a bit distorted when I fill the screen (with keep proportions
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 4/13/2013

  RE: Is it possible to crop without zooming?
  Hi Terry, thanks for the examples. Item 2, the one I left in this reply, is what I want, because I want the results to have the same size and aspect as the rest of the 4:3 / 720x480 videos.  After reading John's reply and trying the settings, I
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 4/13/2013

  RE: Is it possible to crop without zooming?
  Hi Kami Crop with out zooming will leave the image/video with black borders all around - is this what you want?  In which case if you look at Terry's third image you will see the Fill screen opton is unchecked - you uncheck this before
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 4/13/2013

  Is it possible to crop without zooming?
  (Movie Edit Pro MX-18, Win 7) Hi all, I started using a new camcorder and forgot about setting the aspect ratio to 4x3 till after I used it several times. All my other videos are 4x3, and MEP didn't complain when I combined one with the
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 4/4/2013

  video layers not behaving
  I have three layers of stills that I want to use to produce a moving image; the back layer is a starfield, the mid-layer is a debris field and the front layer is a driver in a vehicle. You can see through the window - I made the window white, set
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 3/7/2013

  RE: Does Magix make a program that can create annimated books opening and closing? Something similar to Adobe After Effects.
  DavidS, 'Effects' tab >> 'Design elements' >> 'Intros/Outros'. They get dropped onto a video objects on the timeline. Sorry I can't offer more specific help to such general questions as what else...? Most any image or video clip
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 2/24/2013

  RE: Border / frame around the video clip
  Good one Terry! And a few additional suggestions: As soon as you're happy with a border / PIP combination, select both and group them so they will remain aligned if you decide to place them elsewhere. If you decide to do several PIPs of the
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 2/24/2013

  RE: Border / frame around the video clip
  shubert, Two say I can think of: If you want to keep all the video image then use 'Effects' tab >> 'Movement effects. >> 'Size/position and slightly reduce the area. You would then put a background in a higher track (lower number)
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 2/24/2013

  Border / frame around the video clip
  Hi, Once again, is it possible to have a Border / frame around the video clip?
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 1/31/2013

  RE: Menus - How Can I Use A Plain Background?
  TheArtfulDoger, Wow! Two answers come in while I type. @John, I tried your suggestion and it changes the color of the entire background, not just the button/text area. :-( This is my contribution to the discussion (with late
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Terry, These are the steps I was looking for when I first asked the questions. Thanks, as I finally got the message. I had tried this step early in this learning process, but with a black border using a MP4 video segment from PowerDirector 11.
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Terry, As I stated before, I use MS PowerPoint for drawings like this mask, as I don't have another drawing program. Oh yea, the light blue border happened because white was boring at that moment. Here is the screen shot of me using the mask on
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
    Well it seems my writing style leaves data out of the details, while it is clear to me in my head. So here is what I did, as referenced in your post: I created an oval with a white border and transparent center. Then I added a rectangle
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Well it seems my writing style leaves data out of the details, while it is clear to me in my head. So here is what I did, as referenced in your post: I created an oval with a white border and transparent center. Then I added a rectangle with an
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
    Terry, Well I certainly didn't understand the transparency item fully. So thanks for that. FYI - MS PowerPoint can build transparent shapes and you can save them off as a PNG, JPG or BMP. I used your rounded edge box process to
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Terry, Well I certainly didn't understand the transparency item fully. So thanks for that. FYI - MS PowerPoint can build transparent shapes and you can save them off as a PNG, JPG or BMP. I used your rounded edge box process to create an oval
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Hi Jay, No need for Effect Masks, etc! My white-bordered rounded rectangle with transparent interior wasn't made in MEP! "... back in my image editor (PaintShop Pro 8 in my case), I increased the width of the border a tad, and then re-imported
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Terry, First, I have followed your Effects Masks PDF instructions and can get it to work on the first video track. However, when I tried a PIP I had to delete and start over almost every time. The issue is you must first add the effect and then