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Hi. I think this only works with Xara Designer Pro. Is this the "version" you have, or are you talking about a different "lesser" version? I see from the VPX4 manual that it states the option to "create effects masks..." "will appear only

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 2/5/2013

RE: Movie Edit Pro MX Plus 2013 two-parter

Thanks, again, John, just one other thing, I'm planning to put the slideshow(s) on our web site (using Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 2013). So I'm guessing, I can just put it on the page and upload it to the web server, right? Thanks so very

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 2/5/2013

Movie Edit Pro MX Plus 2013 two-parter

This was touched upon briefly here but I'm still kind of stymied. I wish there was more thorough documentation for some of these functions. Going thru the same thing with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer as a web design tool. But I

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 1/31/2013

RE: Menus - How Can I Use A Plain Background?

TheArtfulDoger, Wow! Two answers come in while I type. @John, I tried your suggestion and it changes the color of the entire background, not just the button/text area. :-( This is my contribution to the discussion (with late

Photo & Graphic Designer

3 answers, most recent on 2/3/2013

RE: Missing PDF Manual for Photo & Graphic Designer 2013

Hi, Are you looking for the Xara Photo and Graphic Designer manual or are you looking for something called Photo & Amp (which I have never heard of). I can tell you where the Xara manual is but not where the "Photo & Amp" manual is

Photo & Graphic Designer

3 answers, most recent on 2/3/2013

Missing PDF Manual for Photo & Graphic Designer 2013

My Instruction manual says that the PDF should appear in C\User\Public\Public Documents\Magix etc, etc, but it does not. I tried looking for it on the disk, but did not find it. Any

Web Designer

One answer, on 12/29/2012

RE: Adding brushes to Web designer MX Premium

Ok I found a way how to do it... 1. Create a brush in Photo & Graphic Designer 2. Draw a line with the desired brush 3. Paste it in Web designer 4. From here on, the brush will appear in your library.

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 11/27/2012

RE: MEP MX 18 Prim - a world of problems ....

Hey John I have changed the CPU to a quad core 2.66, just to test it - no diffrence at all - heaven benchmark indicates a drop in FPS useing the quad core vs the dual core 3.0 - that and the CPU doesnt max out indicates that its not a CPU

Photostory

One answer, on 11/25/2012

RE: How can I get more than six slideshows on one menu page?

Hi I do not have Photostory installed however reading the pdf manual section titled: Edit DVD menus with MAGIX Photo & Graphic Designer 7, I get the impression that the templates installed have a maximum of 5 items per menu page. The

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 11/15/2012

RE: Mep Pro MX, Is there a way to apply a cookie cutter effect

Thanks for that info Terry, very helpful. I was that busy trying to work with the special effects masks I never thought of masking the next track with a normal mask. I've now copied the masks from the folder in program data & put them into the

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 11/15/2012

RE: Mep Pro MX, Is there a way to apply a cookie cutter effect

Hi Terry, thanks for the reply. I would like to use it both to be able to cut out & show a particular part of an image & also to be able to use it as a mask to overlay and let other tracks show through.( As used with both Sony Vegas and

MAGIX

6 answers, most recent on 2/8/2017

Picture Your Creativity – The new MAGIX Photo Contest!

What is creativity to you? How would you be willing to show it in a picture? If you feel like accepting the challenge, this is your call!! MAGIX is looking for the best picture or graphic representing the concept of creativity, in its

Other products

One answer, on 10/2/2012

I have uninstalled Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 5 (Silver) and now have leftover registry entries that cannot be deleted

Hello, I have uninstalled Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 5 (Silver) and now have leftover registry entries that cannot be deleted. They are labeled as follows: LEGACY_FIREBIRDSERVERMAGIXINSTANCE There are three or four of them and I

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 9/26/2012

RE: Anyone using 2013 yet?

Hi All Thanks for the further testing which confirms that the D-click behaviour is very random and probably a bug that goes back to MX as Terry has reported. Old Sepia and Solarize seem consistent on my system but I suspect that the change in

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 9/7/2012

How do I run or use the relevant sequence from movie for chapters, apart from the menu?

I created a Movie or home video footage for an hour with 4 different chapters. When I am trying to burn a DVD or prepare a DVD, under Disc Options.. Design page.. I can click video button (at the right side of the software windows), I can select

Video Pro X

One answer, on 8/8/2012

Video Pro X4/X3: Program interface will not load properly: keep losing Xara title fx

I have a problem with my Video Pro X4 program: when I open it, the program interface has no monitors, media pool or fx tab. Its only the timeline which takes up the whole screen. I've re-set the program to no avail. I deleted the program and

Photo & Graphic Designer

One answer, on 8/1/2012

How does a person use the magic wand and artistic distortion in Photo Graphic Designer 7? Like for example, making a photo look like a oil painting.

Help with software.

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 8/21/2012

RE: Editing DVD menus with alternative image editors

Hallo John and Terry I see and understand the point. This still does not solve the problem. Photo Designer is Horrible. Why Magix went to the extent of actually writing it is beyond me... Most people that do video editing are proficient in

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 8/21/2012

RE: Editing DVD menus with alternative image editors

Hi John, Yes, you're right, I hadn't registered that distinction between calling and returning. Still seems unnecessarily complicated design IMO, for MEP to rely on DDE 'returning' in that way. In several other of my apps (IrfanView is an

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 8/21/2012

RE: Editing DVD menus with alternative image editors

Hallo Terry I would like to make use of a different editor also because Photo Designer is horrible to say the utmost best of it. I spent at least an hour trying to figure out how to erase something in Photo Designer and replace it with

Video Pro X

38 answers, most recent on 6/29/2012

RE: High CPU Usage..when using effects. Preview window lags

Some effects will cause skipping regardless because they are not designed to use GPU acceleration. If you go to Nvidia's site there is a white paper about the Optimus Technology from which I have taken the following: "Another keystone of

Photo & Graphic Designer

5 answers, most recent on 6/13/2012

How do I import photos as they are seen on other softwares?

I'm using Photo & Graphic Designer 7, and when I import RAW files from either my Sony or Pentax camera, the images automatically get re-coloured as if the conditions are really sunny- for example, a picture taken on a cloudy day will show the

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 5/26/2012

Where are the 3500 Sounds and Samples the box claims?

I recently purchased Magix Music Maker MX via download. The box claims 3500 Sounds and samples....where are they? And how many sound spools are you suppose to have with the basic Music Maker MX program? Any help would greatly be appreciated. I

Rescue Your Videotapes!

2 answers, most recent on 5/15/2012

RE: why does 30 seconds of analog VHS recording reduce to 5 secs

Hi John, I was posing both questions really. With a bit of stripping down of superfluous tasks I got a bit more power from my platform which suggested that the output of 5 secs was probably caused by some conflict which had brought the