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Hi Grazie and welcome to the Magix Community, Thank you for your insight into Vegas. I looked at the Vegas forum and also at the comparison chart on the Sony site. It looks like VPX is closest to Vegas Pro 13 Edit, same price, rather than Vegas

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 6/25/2016

RE: MAGIX is CRITICISED.

I have used many types of editing sofware. Magix sucks ass in options, operation and comunity support. i never heard a pro say" Ya i use MAGIX." Hi, Options? What do you mean by options? Third party add-ons or built-in tools? What

Movie Studio

19 answers, most recent on 6/26/2016

RE: Unusual quote for my high end PC

Hi Terry In my opinion : - Dark Rock Advanced Processor Cooler Not necessary - the case has three 120mm fans in it, plus the 120mm fan in the PSU and a fan on the AMD card and the sound suppression in the case (nice choice) - with that lot

Video Pro X

14 answers, most recent on 6/7/2016

A question for users of the new VPX (8)

This indirectly follows on from the problems outlined in http://www.magix.info/uk/anyone-else-finding-magix-support-somewhat-lacking.forum.1166106.html I think there is agreement (between MAGIX Support and myself) that "something" is causing the

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18 answers, most recent on 4/28/2016

RE: GTX 760 2GB OK?

Hi Terry . . . . What is the meaning of the 6700 in 'i7 6700K' . . . . The Intel identification / model system is based on the following: The i3, i5 or i7 refers to the particular type of processor, the main difference being features and

Movie Studio

One answer, on 1/6/2016

Snow-capped text in MEP

Hi, Here is a pdf draft of a tutorial that I intend to post once someone has reviewed and commented on it. It shows a method to use the Snowdrift font on a coloured background, but with white snow. The Snowdrift font has transparent parts for

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 12/7/2015

RE: Can I widen the background band in a caption?

Hi, Yes. Place the caption and select it on the timeline. Ungroup it. Regroup only the top 2 objects - alpha image and background. Go to Effects, Movement effects, Size/position. with the double object selected (background) uncheck Maintain

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 John That is the purpose of the link I pointed in getting MEP to use the NVidia card instead of the Intel HD Graphics chip. I understood that but does it actually work? The comments in that thread seem to indicate it was not sure fire

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6 answers, most recent on 11/14/2015

RE: Frames in "picture in picture"

Hi Pat, What kind of frame would you like? There are some under Effects, Design elements, Image objects, Border. Select one, place it on the image, resize it and move it to properly cover your image. Then have the image and border fly in

Photo & Graphic Designer

3 answers, most recent on 11/4/2015

XARA Photo & Graphic Designer 11 Trial Version wont install

Hello. I want to trial XARA Photo & Graphic Designer 11 but the 30day trial version online wont install. I can download the 30day rial exe file, but nothing happens after I double click on it. It just says wait a minute then notheing eles.

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 10/5/2015

RE: Hardware acceleration keeps turning off when restart mep.

Hi . . . . When I set video mode to standard mode and choose my Nvidia gtx 860m and restart mep it goes back to compatibility mode . . . . This would indicate that there is either a driver issue with the GTX 860M or it is not compatible with

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 9/9/2015

RE: How is MEP performance affected by computer?

Hi John, Thanks for your input. Good to know about the graphics cards and SSD drives for video. The reason for the Xeon processors is because that's what comes with the Lenovo ThinkStation I'm looking at; it's designed so hard drives and

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 9/9/2015

RE: How is MEP performance affected by computer?

Hi Kami Unless you are intending to also use the PC as a highend gaming machine I would recommend the following: Intel i5 or i7 4th or 5th generation processor with integrated HD graphics - do not need an extra graphics card with these, in my

Photo & Graphic Designer

One answer, on 9/2/2015

RE: Does it work on android tablet

Hi Have you looked at the product specification on the Magix web site - at the bottom of this page? John EB

Photo & Graphic Designer

2 answers, most recent on 7/23/2015

RE: Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 7 - Export feature is missing

Hi Are you confusing Magix Extreme Photo Designer 7, which has no Export function, with Xara Photo and Graphic Designer which does have an Export as PNG function to save images with transparency? AFAICS there is no way to save

Photo & Graphic Designer

2 answers, most recent on 7/23/2015

RE: Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 7 - Export feature is missing

Hi Are you confusing Magix Extreme Photo Designer 7, which has no Export function, with Xara Photo and Graphic Designer which does have an Export as PNG function to save images with transparency? AFAICS there is no way to save background

Movie Studio

22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015

Hi John C.B. The first example is simply the objects exported with a transparent background. This is what I assume to be a video with an alpha channel. Is this correct? Peter, is this what you mean by an avi with an alpha channel? Maybe,

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No answers, created on 7/21/2015

Older MEP versions prior to 2014 - were there PSD buttons in the Burn Edit window?

I noticed in PhotoStory on DVD 2013 Deluxe that there are buttons at the top of the Burn, Edit screen to import and export PSD files. This is not in MEP2014Plus or 2015Premium and I don't have any of the older versions on my computer anymore. Can

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22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015

@Terry, Thanks for the information. This answers some of my questions and confirms that MEP can handle alpha channel transparency on the import side but not on the export side. You should have gone for the Xara offer. It is truly

Movie Studio

22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015

@Terry, Thanks for the information. This answers some of my questions and confirms that MEP can handle alpha channel transparency on the import side but not on the export side. You should have gone for the Xara offer. It is truly amazing. If

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

RE: Transparent Button?

Hi, I just tried this with a png that I created in Xara and exported, true color&alpha, transparent. It was the first frame in the movie and was thus used for the button. In the Burn menu, to get the background black, I clicked on my image,

Video Pro X

3 answers, most recent on 7/4/2015

RE: X7 upgraders - please give your impression

@John EB, Well I'll be.....! Yes, everything was set up correctly for the languages, but I didn't actually try burning. I got as far as the parameter screen below and since there was no Dual Channel option as indicated in the manual on p388, I

Movie Studio

One answer, on 7/21/2015

Xara Photo & Graphics Designers 11 out - still does not work properly with MEP

Xara Photo & Graphics Designer 11 just came out and I tried it with MEP2015 Premium and VPX7 hoping that they had fixed the problem with the animation interface. They have not and this is most disappointing. I have raised another ticket with