• Movie Studio

  34 answers, most recent on 4/16/2021

  RE: RGB Colour Identification in Raw Clip
  @CubeAce @Richard-Curtis @johnebaker I just reread the initial message and I now understand that Richard just wanted to id a part of the sky with the same colour/hue. The sky colour varies a bit but not much. The trick with replacement using another
• Movie Studio

  34 answers, most recent on 4/16/2021

  RE: RGB Colour Identification in Raw Clip
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, The question was how to identify the colour. John EB is the expert here. I suppose that once you know what it is, and the sky in Richard's photo is about RGB= 0.55=140, 0.58=148, 0.48=122, then if you know what it should actually
• Movie Studio

  150 answers, most recent on 4/12/2021

  RE: Graphics Card
  @Steve-McClelland Hi Steve. Not sure what you mean by not many. Those transitions already bought do not show up in the store content . But I have a few packs already. I'm not sure what format they would have to be in if not bought at the store but
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  150 answers, most recent on 4/12/2021

  RE: Graphics Card
  @Steve-McClelland Hi Steve What is in the Store or on Producer Planet is all there is. If you have the time you can create your own, the same goes for collages if you use them, see this tutorial for transitions and this one for Collages - both apply
• Movie Studio

  34 answers, most recent on 4/16/2021

  RE: RGB Colour Identification in Raw Clip
  @Richard-Curtis Hi Richard. Is it possible to see one frame as an example? Is the sky roughly the same throughout? Does the camera move much during the clip? Have you thought of putting the same clip directly onto a track above and moving the copy
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 3/17/2021

  RE: Mask button in effects random behavior
  @tpolakov Hi . . . . Anyone else seeing this (in MEP 2021)? . . . . I see the problem - it requires a very precise length of click to toggle the mask on/off it could be a bug, hold the mouse button down too long and it toggles back to the original
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 3/17/2021

  Mask button in effects random behavior
  Hi, anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mask button next to an effect in the keyframing window? It is supposed to turn red if the mask is enabled - what I see is it randomly either turns red or not when clicked(most of the times it just stays
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 3/7/2021

  How to use masking, scaling, effects and transitions for VHS quality
  I hired a freelancer to make me an intro and I'd like to learn on my own how to do these kinds of effects because I'll be doing different intros with different games I'll be playing. I'd just like someone to show me how to do these effects like this
• Movie Studio

  54 answers, most recent on 3/16/2021

  RE: Chromakey issues 2020 version
  @johnebaker @Karkes @Former user Hi all. I have never used a green screen for live video work and most of my limited use with backdrops are to do with stills photography and situations similar to shooting into a light-box but on a larger studio
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  54 answers, most recent on 3/16/2021

  RE: Chromakey issues 2020 version
  @Karkes I've been using Chroma key in 2021 today, I've just tried all options & there's no prob i can see. I didn't have or know of a problem in 2020 Sometimes if a mask etc. doesn't go completely transparent it's because the colour isn't a true
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @browj2 Thanks John 👍 It was one of those ones where there was a bit of trial n error adjusting masks until i got there, a very interesting task with a satisfying outcome & some new knowledge, understanding the editing/masks before in order to
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Former user Good videos! I loved the last one with the drill trick. That should keep people guessing about how this magical trick was done - and how to use masks. John CB
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Here's a few short vids all using masks, just thought I'd share 😉 A window i made & fitted looking outside, the view masked & swapped for a fish tank 😄 Wardrobe doors i made, masked the panels to add swimming pool water A
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi Larry, I'm working on a tutorial on this. Good subject! Thanks for bringing it up. In the meantime, take a look at this tutorial in which I show how I made a mask in Xara and used it in MEP/VPX. John CB
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  Hello Gid, thank-you for the video - that is what I am working. The position of the 'outline' mask is interesting to me too - it helps understanding the layers. Best regards, -Larry
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  Hello all, and thank-you for the many suggestions. I started by attempting the 'double'-mask with interleaved color-swatch; that colored the entire bubble with tint, and I tried several colors. After experimenting with several 'effects', I found
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi @Former user is correct in one way (pun intended). The Alpha effect has 'direction' ie depending on the direction the arrow circled below is pointing either the black is transparent or white is transparent HTH John EB   I
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi, the easiest thing to remember is black is see-through when Chroma key is Alpha, I've used colours here but any picture or video can be put between Alpha masks
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  Hello John CB, that post this morning gave me a note to start a new thread since the topic was different; that is why it appears in two threads. I'm somewhat new to forums. Thank-you for helping me understand masking multiple images. The alpha-mask
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Glad you got the hang of it Larry. It can become the base to many varying effects once you get into it. Masks are a very powerful tool once you let your imagination go. Ray.  
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  That fixed it! The key was moving the mask 'above' the video-clip; then, size/position, distortion, color/brightness and chroma/key tweaks. Magix and your coaching enable accessibility to enjoyable creation that I did not envision when I purchased
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  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi Larry, Whew! I was sure that I saw something about this thought bubble this morning and an answer from Ray. I thought that I was losing it, getting inverse dementia or something. Here is the link to what Ray mentioned - in
• Movie Studio

  14 answers, most recent on 11/15/2021

  RE: MOVIE EDIT PRO PLUS 2016: ANIMATED GIF?
  Thanks John, I export as sequence of frames & GIMP exports GIFs the once in a blue moon i do use them, I was just curious, 😏👍 exporting a video with MEP with an Alpha transparency would be good tho, I've seen in the export list it can export as
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/25/2021

  RE: effects
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi Larry. This is a slightly different topic. In future could you start your own new thread. To do what you want to do you need to use a black and white mask. These can be easily made using Windows Paint as I have in the example