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Hi, Titles are object just like other images, except that they are transparent except for the text. You simply drag the second title partially over the first like any other transition, and apply effects if you want. If you are in Storyboard

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 1/17/2016

Image has black border lines after export

Hey, I have a problem with Video Deluxe 16 Plus. When I export the video to any format, for images which have been shrunk there appear black border lines. I tried images with every format (JPG, PNG) with any amount of transparency and they still

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 1/15/2016

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

Hi John, I imagine a film maker would resist any distraction but I bet, given the chance, a web designer would stream adverts or news! By the way I initially used a png file but Video Pro x6 could not select the transparent area as it was not

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 1/15/2016

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

Hi, I'll take a stab at this. You can try to change the resolution of the project to close to the size. For mpeg encoding, the V and H numbers have to be evenly divisible by 8. Thus 1920 and 1080 are both divisible by 8. The size that closely

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 1/6/2016

RE: A few 'how to' questions on using the editor

Hi Nick, First, there are many things that you can do with audio in MEP. Take a look. There is also a Mixer (M). The Captions usually come with video files and in your case there are 2 video files that contain masks. Select the 4 track object

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

2 answers, most recent on 12/30/2015

RE: How can i mark a moving object?

Yes, but first you need a circle. If you don't have one, draw one with a drawing program and save it as a png file with transparent background. Import it into the timeline of MEP where you want, on to a higher numbered track. Select it and extend

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: Changing photo length: why this behaviour?

Re Slideshow wizard: it has a feature to select the length of the photos and the length of video clips. John, This could be my first Christmas present - but can you get it working? In MEP 2014 it doesn't. With 4s specified

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 12/14/2015

RE: Making the Hands of God

Hi Anirban . . . . a soul leaving the body. . . . . This is a 'Freeze and go' effect there are many ways of doing this. If you are using your digital camera - IIIRC it will allow you to take a still image while recording - use the remote

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 11/1/2015

RE: a little help required please.

I don't have the answer you want, I'm also a new user. Maybe someone else here does. But I will chime in and say I've also wondered about this sort of thing. What I've been able to do is stuff like...using your example...is use a 2nd video

Video Pro X

One answer, on 10/25/2015

i need to overlay 2 clips or trim and stich 2 clips

i have 2 clips i need to overlay my example would be i have 2 few second martial arts clips and i want to overlay the clip with a 2nd of me so they look like i am fighting with myself can this be done. if not can i trim the frames in the

Other products

2 answers, most recent on 10/12/2015

RE: Can I place a small picture logo onto the corner of the screen a Video ?

Hi, You selected Movies on DVD. Is that the program that you are using? If not, which one and which version? In Movie Edit Pro 2015 and before, you simply add your logo (as an image, I presume) to a higher numbered track where you want it to

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 10/5/2015

Chroma Key

Is there a tutorial anywhere on Chroma-key? I've used the idea on another programme but can't follow the terminology in MEP plus 2016. I can find the Chroma key effect but the options of ' Stamp, colour, mix, Green, blue, water, Alpha, black,

Music Maker

One answer, on 9/22/2015

RE: The Fix on Installing Older Products on windows 10

Strange that there is no comend from Magix support on this I have now got all my older software dating back from 2013 onwards with no issus at all the issues as i stated is the first installer program, running the install program from the

Off topic

5 answers, most recent on 8/24/2015

RE: Magic photostory DOES NOT support Asian Fonts!!

Very few people will buy the English version of a product like PhotoStory with the express intention of using asian fonts. What you are basically saying is that a software maker should indicate everything that the program doesn't do, which would

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 8/10/2015

RE: Transistioning Titles

That helps me... in germany we got a new patch - I think that is the problem. bowi2 wrote: I used a black image. Then I gave the black image a chromakey Black, which made it transparent. Exactly this is now wrong I informed the

Video Pro X

2 answers, most recent on 8/4/2015

RE: Tethering

Hi, There are a couple of ways to do this, but they get down to what John E Baker indicated. Here is another way. Create a simple white rectangle with a feathered edge. Make it quite large, like about 600 px high by 400 wide. I used Xara for

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 7/28/2015

RE: Ticker tape titles

Hi, In MEP2015 Plus/Premium there is a colour correction effect. Don't know if it's in the basic version. The blue bar is simply a file containing a semi-transparent blue bar. You can make your own bar in a drawing program like Paintshop or

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 7/27/2015

RE: Lighting for a Dull Set-Up

Hi, The easy way is to shot all scene using 3 point lighting to obtain the maximum quality video. The second step using the editing video software to create a semi transparent title to cover entirely the the frame size may 1920 x 1080 may be a

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

Photo & Graphic Designer

2 answers, most recent on 7/23/2015

Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 7 - Export feature is missing

Hello Experts! I am using Magix Xtreme Photo Designer 7. I isolated picture object using the Lasso tool. When I want to save the image as PNG format with transparency, I cannot find the "Export" function under File. I can only see Save, Save as

Movie Studio

22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015

@Peter, Thank you for the explanation. I did more testing using the new Xara Designer Pro X11 (still on trial). In Xara, I used AVI uncompressed, Transparent, quality cannot be changed. When I check the Metadata of the AVI files produced by

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,