• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 6/26/2016

  RE: Unusual quote for my high end PC
  Peter, Could you say a bit more about what files you place on your Samsung 850 EVO 512GB SSD system disc and your WD Black 4TB HDD Video Storage please? By 'system' do you mean the three folders \Windows, \Documents and Settings and \Program
• 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
• 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
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 1/2/2016

  RE: Lost identities!
  Hi Terry and John, I was going to start a new thread for my questions, but got lazy, as my wife was trying to hurry me out the door. The results of my OT were wonderful! Thank you, John, for the poem and the Feuerzangenbowle, which I will
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 1/2/2016

  RE: Lost identities!
  Hi John, Happy New Year to you too from a wet and windy West Sussex. What prompted my odd question was getting a reply recently addressed to me as 'Online'! Which seemed a natural mistake. Then I looked at a few pages of the site and found
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 12/20/2015

  Possibly OT: Mute All somehow being enabled unexpectedly
  I'm regularly finding the Mute All option in the Playback Volume window enabled: The reason I'm posting here is because this has arisen during the last week or two, a period during which I've been using MEP 2014 intensively for 8-10 hours a
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 7/2/2015

  Files converted with VLC fail in MEP
  I've raised this in one of the general video forums, but does anyone here use the handy conversion tool in VLC? If so ( a big if!) I'd appreciate discussing the following please. I capture tour videos from Google Earth using FRAPS. The
• Photostory

  4 answers, most recent on 2/13/2023

  RE: How does Photostory decide whether to create MTS or M2TS files?
  Weird.  (But that's what my wife says about me, too.)   It's all from the same MPH.  The stuff in it is a mixture of JPGs - primarily from a Canon SX10, with a few from an IPhone, a few panoramas created using Canon's Photo Stictch, and a couple
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 1/23/2015

  RE: MEP 'Quick function'?
  After much experimenting I still can't get my head around the way this Quick thingie works. Take this example. None of the 'smooth playback' elements are enabled and not surprisingly I get a jerky playback of this AVI file (a FRAPS capture of a
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 12/8/2014

  RE: proDAD - Sizing query
  Video readers are being reinitialized.... I don't know why it happens at that stage but I wouldn't worry about it. The  message 'Video readers are being initialized....' appears when MEP first loads too. I know exactly what you mean about your
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 9/3/2014

  RE: Auto exposure puzzle
  Thanks Peter, that's it! Quite a revelation. I'd never thought about it before and suppose I'd always tacitly assumed that, for a video object, Auto exposure did base its operation on some sort of 'average'. But now that you have made me think
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 8/13/2014

  Using 25 fps mxv screen capture file in 29.97 fps project "shimmer" problem
  Hi, I am trying to use my screen capture mxv 25 fps file within my 29.97 fps project I am burning to DVD and BluRay.  I have tried using Video Effect Speed to change the frame rate of the mxv file to 50 fps, 29.97 fps and 59.94 fps to see if I can
• Movie Studio

  No answers, created on 6/17/2014

  Long tome user of all Magix products. I bought off e-bay movie edit pro 12, says download AVI codec free?
  Man I have been using Magix since they have been around. Mostly music programs.I wanted a cheap movie maker, I found it on e-bay Movie Edit Pro 12. The manual says go to Magix, download the AVI video codec free, I do not see it anywhere, no
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  RE: Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  Terry, A1: The built-in map in VdG is worse. There is only limited resolution as the map is within the program, thus the reason to import maps. See the images below to see what happened to my Angel Woods walk. The image at 95% shows the island
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  RE: Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  John, The first walk I animated using the GPX import facility that you alerted me to just happened to be in a widerness area of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California. Just my luck that the TRA map shows it largely full of 'NR' symbols,
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  RE: Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  Hi Terry, You are right, this gets long, but interesting. Q: Was v5 a bundled promotion of some sort? A: I looked back at the invoices and I received VdG5 as part of a special deal for  PhotoStory2013 with which I also which I got Photo
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  RE: Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  Hi John, A very interesting topic for me, assuming we broaden it a bit, and I suspect it could get quite long! I received Vasco da Gama 5 (VdG) with one of the earlier versions of MEP and have since upgraded to version 8. This is an
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  I received Vasco da Gama 5 (VdG) with one of the earlier versions of MEP and have since upgraded to version 8. This is an alternative to using the Travel Route Animation in MEP and contains many more features. However, Travel Route uses
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 11/27/2013

  MEP 2014 export settings for MP4
  I'd appreciate some help with my export settings in MEP 2014 Premium Plus please. I've just been trying to render a project in MEP 2014 and it consistently crashed. FWIW (not much I fear) I got these messages (same after reboot and
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 9/18/2013

  RE: MEP 2014 Will not load previous projects
  Hi George, I bit the bullet and installed MEP 2014 Premium (full version). I've only been using it for a couple of days but FWIW I've had no problems loading and playing projects from my previous version, MEP 2013. I tried several over 4 mins
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 4/11/2015

  2014 MP4 export slower than 2013?
  I just exported my first project with MEP 2014 and it took about 20% longer than MEP 2013. It was a small project, 3:49 in length. Or for better quality: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4019461/MEP2014-Project-TimedExport.jpg Source
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 2/18/2013

  RE: Rendering Problems
  Hi Kami, I get a further complication with MEP 2013 Premium, definitely in your aptly named Twilight category. I've had inconsistent results with the same project at the same stage of development. Not what you want to hear when trying to isolate
• Movie Studio

  25 answers, most recent on 11/20/2012

  RE: MEP 2013 Preloading - slow? ineffective?
  Hi Peter, I haven't yet been able to study John's folder structure thoroughly. Even when I have, experience tells me I'm going to find it hard going without seeing the CONTENTS of each folder and subfolder, because that's ultimately the only way
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 11/19/2012

  RE: Travel Route Animation does not cross International Date LIne
  Thank you both for your answers.  It really is appreciated.  As a third party product, I would have thought that they would have put their moniker on the program like other third party apps do.  Ah well.   Because if they did I would have gone to