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I've been with Magix since MEP 11 on my old single core WindowsXP computer and now have MEP 17 on my new quad core, Windows7, HP Pavilion dv7 laptop. I generally like most things about the program, but one problem persists - the preview stutters.

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One answer, on 10/22/2011

RE: How do you adjust MPEG quality when importing from a dv camcorder

I have difficulties to see that you can improve the quality of an MPEG-file by changing the parameters. If your recordings come from a DV-camera (tape), I thing it is a better idea to transfer the files as DV-AVI, which is lossless. This

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One answer, on 10/22/2011

How do you adjust MPEG quality when importing from a dv camcorder

I have Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus (version 10.0.11.0(UC1) ) which I run under Windows 7. When importing from a DV camcorder and saving the video as an MPEG file how do you adjust the quality of the resulting MPEG file. On the DV Import screen I

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 10/22/2011

RE: interlacing artifacts, and importing .mov files

Hi Foregive me for being dense, but why are you uploading to an IMac? It sounds like you are capturing from the camera to the IMac and then converting for use in MEP on a PC - is this correct?. What is the source of the video

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11 answers, most recent on 10/22/2011

RE: interlacing artifacts, and importing .mov files

Hi Foregive me for being dense, but why are you uploading to an IMac? It sounds like you are capturing from the camera to the IMac and then converting for use in MEP on a PC - is this correct?. What is the source of the video files ie are

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One answer, on 10/10/2011

Error Message after capturing: "Many frames were dropped while capturing. You can avoid this by reducing capture quality. I am attempting to capture from a Sony VX2100 DV Tape using an EasyCap USB into a Toshiba Quad4 i7 Windows 7 Home Premium laptop.

Magix Edit Pro 15 Pro Plus is my editing / capturing program. I have reset to default levels(320x240 at 4:3) but the quality of the output is not satisfactory. I need 16:9 at 720X480 29.97 frames per second. Corrections I have made have resulted

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2 answers, most recent on 10/8/2011

RE: MEP17+ won't record from mini-DV camera

Hi Kami Can you post in one forum only please - otherwise your replies will not be all in one place which makes following the thread difficult for you. I have replied in this forum Cheers John

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One answer, on 10/8/2011

MEP 17+ has stopped recording from mini-DV camera

The last time I used the mini-DV was in May, and MEP's recording function worked with it fine. The only change I made is to remove MEP16+. When I first attach the camera and the Firewire, MEP doesn't appear on the Windows "what do you want

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2 answers, most recent on 10/8/2011

MEP17+ won't record from mini-DV camera

This function used to work. The last time I used the mini-DV was in May, and MEP's recording function worked with it fine. The only change I made is to remove MEP16+. When I first attach the camera and the Firewire, MEP doesn't appear on

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12 answers, most recent on 10/20/2011

RE: AVi Video Clip - End of Clip Chopped Off On Insertion / Drag and Drop To The Arranger In Edit Mode - Advice

Hello Terry Sorry I did not get back to you sooner. I just tried your suggestion... thanks. I forgot to mention I am using ME Pro 16 Plus. It does not seem to have an option AVI Import Module. I tried unchecking " Internal AVI

Video Pro X

2 answers, most recent on 9/26/2011

RE: active movie has different resolution as new file added

Hi John, I use 3 different cameras: Canon GL-1 / Panasonic PV-DV 953D / Panasonic NV-GS500. Best is to set all camera and editing software on 29.97 fps correct?

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7 answers, most recent on 3/30/2015

RE: How do I change the aspect ratio to something like 2:35:1?

There's a really easy way to do this, without image distortion. 1. First, we must calculate the resolution of the resulting ~2.35:1 video. Because we want to crop the video on its vertical ends and keep the full (horizontal) width, we take the

Video Pro X

One answer, on 9/12/2011

RE: Video Pro X3 Audio Cliping

Please can you review the following FAQ : http://support2.magix.net/customer/en/node/302 This will resolve the audio crackling if you have recorded DV AVI Type 1.

Video Pro X

One answer, on 9/12/2011

Video Pro X3 Audio Cliping

I captured DV with firewire and the audio clips. I imported it from my DSR-20 Sony DVPRO Deck. What can I do to fix that.

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 9/3/2011

RE: burn to dvd disrupts timing between audio and video

I would try to convert your Video to DV-AVI. DV-AVI uses minimal compression. I used to use a really good free converter by Koyote Sofware. What is nice about this converter is that it does batch processing. Here is the

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6 answers, most recent on 8/25/2011

RE: 100% CPU usage with Magix Movie Edit Pro 16

cato, I understand what you are saying but video export/processing is VERY demanding of the computer and its CPU. If there was a method which enabled you to "control" how much of your CPU capacity could be used by an particular app, the

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5 answers, most recent on 8/24/2011

RE: The active movie has a resolution of 720x490 (4:3), 29.97 fps. The File (File I'm editing) has a resolution of 1920x1080 (16:9), 59.96 fps

hi all please help me i am using magic x moviepro 14 plus and i tryed to import video from my Sony HD CAMCORDER (DV 6799es) it is not possible but when i tried to import pictures from the same device it is getting (from my camcorders sd card

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One answer, on 8/10/2011

no audio when editing with gopro cmaera

my gopro hero 960 hd uploads fine to magix. when i watch the video in the media pool there is audio. when i drag it to the timeline there is no audio. i cant figure out why? please help. im not to familiar with technical terms so simple answers

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2 answers, most recent on 8/6/2011

problem with audio when using gopro camera?

my gopro hero 960 hd uploads fine to magix. when i watch the video in the media pool there IS audio. when i drag it to the timeline there is no audio. i cant figure out why? please help. im not to familiar with technical terms so simple answers

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9 answers, most recent on 3/16/2014

RE: I AM SO SICK OF VIDEO 17 CRASHING

I think it is safe to say other Movie Edit Pro users have had crashing problems, but that is true for any software. Adobe Premiere crashes on my laptop, even their crash report system crashes on me, yet runs fine on desktop. I do not think the

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19 answers, most recent on 8/17/2011

RE: jerky playback 16 premium

I feel the only reason for jerky playback after export, assuming your playback hardware / software is OK, must be due to mismatched frame rates or interlacing field orders between the input and output format or movie settings. Check your

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2 answers, most recent on 7/17/2011

RE: Creating high quality / HD MP4 from a 50 FPS source using Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus HD

Hi. There certainly seem to be a few tricks with MPEG4 exports and I am trying to solve the riddle as well, myself. A couple of observations after a lot of fiddling around:- The 50p presets in the "file > export movie > MPEG4" are

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4 answers, most recent on 7/20/2011

Top Blu-ray disk menu missing

I am using MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus. I tried to create a Blu-ray disk. It is a number of 1080 video clips. I selected a main disk menu and a number of sub-menus. I selected burn and it told me it worked just fine. When I put the disk

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One answer, on 6/29/2011

RE: Why Magix Edit Pro 17 Download Version does not recognise Sony HDR 130XE?

Hi As your Sony records to memory cards you cannot 'Record' the video files using MEP - it is not a DV camera. Either plug the camera into the computer and use Windows Explorer to browse the camera folders - it will appear as another drive -