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Dear John, thank you for the clarification about Rescue Your Video Tapes (RYVT). The AV2 socket on the back of the VCR says "Decoder." I have plugged the SCART cable in and tried the following: In the File icon at the

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 6/24/2016

RE: Rendering text for use as overlay in another video editor

Hi, Titles are melt in the video background this is impossible to capture only the text and remove the background but you can use your original Magix Movie Edit Pro file (mvp) open in Magix, and strip or mute (M) the video track. Now use a track

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 6/24/2016

Rendering text for use as overlay in another video editor

Hey guys, Is there a way I can render out the video tracks with text of my project as a movie file, then use that as an overlay on another video track in another video editor? Is there a setting where I can specify the background to be

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 6/3/2016

RE: video effect/rip through

Hi Mike, You need a thorough understanding as to how to use chromakey and masks, and once you understand everything, you do like me, try all of the combinations until something works. In my latest version, things are somewhat inversed because

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 5/12/2016

RE: Travel Route Animation Wizard revisited

Hi Terry, I'm still using Vasco da Gama, sometimes with StreetMaps4 (North America only), sometimes with the VdG built in world maps and sometimes with Google Earth Pro maps (for plane trips). There are plenty of ways to display the route, and a

Other products

3 answers, most recent on 5/11/2016

RE: how can i prevent anyone from uploading my media in online album?

Hi . . . . how can i prevent anyone from uploading my media in online album . . . I presume you mean downloading media from your online album? There are several methods of stopping the casual viewer downloading content - disabling the right

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 5/12/2016

Travel Route Animation Wizard revisited

To show trips and walks in my videos I most often use Google Earth (GE). For example in my current project: But as it's been a long time since I used MEP 2014's wizard I've just tried it for the same route. It's fairly easy to use in

Video Pro X

12 answers, most recent on 4/24/2016

RE: VPX8 is due "in the next weeks"

Hi Jeff, I did not receive a proper reply from Magix about Mercalli, but Bob Braun said that "The Mercalli V2 is just now internal to the program. Not sure if the extra V4 will be included as product features will be added through out the year

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 4/16/2016

RE: How can I extract objet from video

Hi José, That is an excellent question! See this message and watch the video. Also, take a look through the entire thread. Unfortunately, Magix broke the thing and it hasn't worked since Xara 9, 32 bit version. You can try it with Xara

Photostory

3 answers, most recent on 8/29/2020

Producing EXIF/IPTC image data in Photostory Deluxe?

I've been using Photostory Deluxe 2016 and it's generally quite impressive. One piece of functionality which I feel in necessary though is the ability to overlay images with data pulled from the image EXIF and/or IPTC data eg image filename and

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 3/1/2016

RE: Can you add a solid block of colour behind a title?

I edited my previous answer because I posted the wrong second image. There are also 3 free lower templates that are just simple overlays available at: http://bluefx.net/after-effects-templates/free-lower-third-template/ The problem is that

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 2/7/2016

RE: How can you make the sound on your video, play over the still photography on another track?

Hi, See this answer. It does not matter which track the audio is on, but it's best to keep only video and images on track 1, audio on track 2. If you separate audio from a video clip that is on track 1 (Ctrl+H), the audio will be placed on

Photostory

One answer, on 1/24/2016

How do I apply a transition to text only?

Photostory 2016 Deluxe Creating a slideshow with photos, audio track, and subtitles/text. GOAL: The movie will play with photos and have a text overlay that appears and disappears at different times and with different transitions than the

Movie Studio

One answer, on 1/23/2016

Insert/ Overlay picture in video

Hi. I want to KEEP the sound from the videoclip while showing a picture instead of the video, how do I do that? I have MEP 2016.

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 1/15/2016

How do create a 2.39:1 ratio on a 16:9 TV screen to create a cinema wide scree effect|?

Hello, I wish to present a video on a 16:9 TV screen which is modifed to look like a 2.39:1 ratio cinema stock. However, I wish to achieve this without distorting the image of the base video material (which will be shot in16:9 ratio). I

Movie Studio

One answer, on 1/1/2016

Conversin of video to various formats

The older versions of MEP would allow output to "non standard" formats. The big problem I have is that I do 3D videos and slides. I want to output them at full resolution, but this is not possible to MP4. I have to output them as side by side

Movie Studio

22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium

Hi Kami, It's mostly in the amount of control over the area to be sharpened (or blurred). I did find that the amount of sharpening in Pixelan was slightly greater, not necessarily better, than what is in MEP. However, if your imgage is blurry to

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 12/11/2015

RE: whole slideshow doesn't burn. only get portion of it on dvd. what's wrong?

Thank you for your input. Video is 23 min. 240 pictures with music. A little over 1 Mb no error messages. Using regular DVD setting.Will try image recorder but will that include the music and text overlays? It burns only first 6 minutes of

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 12/4/2015

RE: Potential new customer of Movie Edit Pro 2016 - a few questions about it please...

Hi Nick, I also use Pinnacle Studio Pro (18.6 presently) but only for some of the effects that I don't have with Movie Edit Pro (MEP), otherwise, it's all Magix. Get MEP 2016 Premium, not basic or Plus. Premium has the Mercalli 4 plugin, which

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 1/4/2017

RE: Is there a work around in order to get Cuda to work on MEP 2016+??

Hi @ Peter . . . it may be difficult to tell which GPU is doing the HW accel. if you have 2 GPU's in your system . . . . That is the purpose of the link I pointed in getting MEP to use the NVidia card instead of the Intel HD Graphics

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 1/4/2017

RE: Is there a work around in order to get Cuda to work on MEP 2016+??

Hi I've attempted to roll back to an older NVideia driver, and it did enable MEP2014+ to render my BDRs That surprises me as Magix maintain that the reason Cuda rendering does not work on newer Nvidia cards is because Nvidia changed the

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 11/19/2015

RE: How to save a custom caption

Hi You can save it as a take but for some reason when you drag it from Takes back into the timeline it may need a little adjustment because the text track part of the sequence get overlayed/mixed with the track above. Just ungroup the sequence

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 11/21/2015

RE: Trying to have a text symbol move relative to a certain video object. Calculation area maps 100% but text floats. Wonder Why?

Hi I've also displayed "track curves" on Track 3. Hasn't helped: Both green and white "curves" are flat -- green at top, white at middle. The Track Curves are only for automating Audio Volume and Balance so you will see nothing helpful

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 11/20/2015

How do I insert a blank slide at any point within the slideshow for the purpose of providing a stand alone title, desriptive text or credits rather than have to superimpose the text on photos or video

For educational videos I have a need to insert blank slides which can then be used to add descriptive text. Many photos and video images are unsuitable for overlaying text upon them. The slides can then be used and are much more suitable for