Search the MAGIX Community for tutorials, questions and solutions as well as for forum members

@NickDerrickson Hi Did you not get a USB video converter with Rescue your Video tapes ? The manual available under Help in the program has detailed instructions on how to connect the Player or Camera and capture video. If capturing from a DV camera

Video Pro X

46 answers, most recent on 12/8/2022

RE: HEVC compression artifacts

Hi . . . . Simply loading the video into Video Pro X14 and then exporting it as HEVC with the best possible settings (for a 60 MBd video) will reproduce the compression artifacts. . . . . Why are you still exporting at 60Mb/s? As @Marc-Goder has

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@Ove5868 @johnebaker @CubeAce AFAICS you are doing nothing wrong, you do not see the 'wavy edges' on a TV playing 'analog' video because there is up to 5% of the image being cropped from the sides - If you look closely, you will see that any "edge"

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 7/31/2022

RE: How to import new transitions, presets and templates for VHS effects

Hi Ray Yes I do remember those 'transitions', I have used some of the old TV transitions in a spoof advert I did a few years ago. @johny_lovin_it Hi Most of the animations etc in the article you linked to can be emulated in MEP/VPX. Here is a quick

Video Pro X

25 answers, most recent on 8/3/2022

RE: DVD edit page very small text

@sjmackinder Hi Simon Can you post a screenshot of the page you are editing so we can see what the issue is. . . . . burn a DVD in 1080p instead of 1080i please . . . . DVD is 480i maximum and the video must be interlaced to conform with the TV

Movie Studio

28 answers, most recent on 8/10/2022

RE: Suddenly Movie S is not decoding Lagarith or Huffy encoding correctly

V5 of Neat Video has a number of additional functions including intensity leveling. V4 as I recall introduced spot removal, but as I say it removes fast moving objects too often. In one frame of a pioneer lady chopping wood the Ax handle and all

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 8/1/2022

RE: Fail to adjust the frame rate for blue-ray disk (BD)

@ericlnz But remember bitrate is measured as bits per second. The image size and number of frames per second don't come into it. That wasn't my point. My point was that that same bitrate is now spread over double the number of frames, which would

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@Ove5868 Hi . . . . Any idea what i am doing wrong ? . . . . AFAICS you are doing nothing wrong, you do not see the 'wavy edges' on a TV playing 'analog' video because there is up to 5% of the image being cropped from the sides - this was necessary

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 8/18/2022

RE: How come Magix won't allow me to record video from my video camera?

@Dave-Benziger Dave, I assume that you have recorded some video on your camera and are trying to get it into MEP to edit. If that is the case, I make the following comments. Your camera is basically a computer disk. It records it's videos into

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 8/18/2022

RE: How come Magix won't allow me to record video from my video camera?

@Dave-Benziger Hi Dave and welcome. As John and Jeff says, a lot of cameras will only ever show up as a 'mass storage device'. However some cameras can be accessed to record from using two or more free programs. I use DigiCamControl to capture a

Movie Studio

34 answers, most recent on 4/24/2023

RE: stability creates confidence in the product

@browj2 @Betovalle This is all I have on MEP. Version 2022 NEW FEATURES IN MOVIE EDIT PRO 2022! INFUSION Engine 3 MAGIX Travel Maps New controls Ultra-fast export with the INFUSION Engine 3 – 5x faster than real time Movie Edit Pro now runs using an

Video Pro X

46 answers, most recent on 5/14/2025

RE: VPX16 plays Sony XAVC with no sound

@Can-Dive , @AAProds I hope this is the right list. Audio: 0x0000 unknown -0x0001 PCM Microsoft0x0002 ADPCM Microsoft0x0003 IEEE FLOAT Microsoft IEEE7540x0004 VSELP Compaq Computer Corp.0x0005 IBM CVSD IBM

Movie Studio

44 answers, most recent on 1/17/2025

RE: Making Blu-rays

@MikaS @johnebaker Hi . . . . the video was slighty jerky in places where the camera was moving or where people were moving fast . . . . Unfortunately this appears to be an issue with progressive source video in combination with changing to

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@AAProds HI Alwyn, . . . . My LG 55" (2020 model) has no overscan at all: I see all of the ugly VHS headswitching noise at the bottom as well fuzzy sides. . . . Does the TV not have a setting for changing the overscan setting? . . . . don't know

Rescue Your Videotapes!

33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

RE: VHS capture quality is very poor

@AAProds Hi Al. In the UK isopropyl alcohol is never sold as 100% proof as unless the container is glass, (as used to be sold to the film industry) some container material can leach into the fluid over time. When I had to work with isopropyl alcohol

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 7/31/2022

RE: How to import new transitions, presets and templates for VHS effects

@johnebaker Hi John. There certainly is such a thing as vintage transitions. I worked at Presbury's Screen Publicity and they invented the rotating star burst between commercials for ITV (remember those?) among other transitions and also later when

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@Ove5868 Hi and Welcome to the user to user forums. I am surprised Al (AAProds) has not already jumped in with answers (it's more his thing than mine) but is probably waiting for me to give some inaccurate answer to correct 😂 but in the meantime to

Movie Studio

81 answers, most recent on 7/25/2022

RE: HEVC/H.265 files in Magix 2021 premium

@fergie Hi. Can you now see proper thumbnails of the images of the files in Windows Explorer? If you can and also play the file now using Windows Film and TV please give us your system specs as I requested in my last post. Ray.

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

I live in the US and I am trying to digitize some old German family VHS Tapes with "Rescue your ... ". I am using the latest version of the SW and AD Converter, just bought it. Tapes are in PAL B recorded with German VHS Camera, VCR is also a German

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@Ove5868 Hi and Welcome to the user to user forums. I am surprised Al (AAProds) has not already jumped in with answers (it's more his thing than mine) but is probably waiting for me to give some inaccurate answer to correct 😂 but in the meantime to

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 7/18/2022

Blu-ray burned with MEP-13 does not play on new Blu-ray players

I burned Blu-Ray discs of an adventure using MEP13. At the time, I checked that the discs would play on my two Bluray players (BR/DVD player and PS-2 or 3(?) both connected to my TV) before I sent them to my family. A few days ago I check that disc.

Video Pro X

3 answers, most recent on 7/17/2022

RE: VPX 14 HDR Export

@KaWai-Lau Hi . . . . more information on chroma subsampling 420 . . . . See the section below the Test results, in this article for the best description of chroma subsampling. . . . . Where is the hdr I recorded gone . . . . Do you mean Exported

Rescue Your Videotapes!

33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

VHS capture quality is very poor

VHS capture quality is very poor: There are bands of colour flicker or interference in the videos that come and go. Please find link to sample video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wo67UXo-zJ24ssrjcL3MlzSHOU4IxyJP/view?usp=sharing I use USB

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 7/10/2022

RE: New Project BUT what Movie Settings should I select?

@Xenofex2 Hi George, For me, it depends on what I want as a final result, with due consideration given to the source format(s). If I want to watch this on a full screen, like a telly, then I'll use 16;9 (1920X1080). I am not going to turn the telly