• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @Hansy  My only small wish to add to your comprehensive list is adding a program setting option to place the overlay tracks over the main video track rather than under (similar to Vegas)  Hi, as in the comment above made by @Can-Dive that
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 5/8/2024

  RE: Which Movie Studio or Video Pro X version has these features?
  @fbal, @browj2, @Gid HI . . . . CC are literally the words spoken in the video written in the same language, Subtitles are a translation of the spoken words into another language. But yes both terms are used for added text often at the bottom of the
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  Hi Everyone, Thanks for all the feedback, it has allowed me to consider hurdles regarding the implementation of the Centre-out approach. I don't like to call it "Bottom-up" because I believe it gives the wrong impression in that editing is initiated
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @Former user It took me a while to figure out what you were on about. By description, I mean typing in Overlay x + a description - in the spreadsheet, not some other description like a title in the video. An overlay is result of the
• Movie Studio

  90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

  RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track
  @Gid @CubeAce Gid, what you showed is what I mentioned way back. Using Change photo length on objects on tracks other than track 1 has a different behaviour - it does not move objects on other tracks, only on its track and this has advantages, but
• Movie Studio

  26 answers, most recent on 1/27/2024

  RE: An Error occured during Export
  @fishycomics Hi . . . . I tried that and its not the best . . . . Are you referring to the 'Motion Tracking', the Using masks to blur out multiple objects or both? 'Motion tracking', ie Attach to picture position in the video in MEP/MMS/VPX, gives
• Movie Studio

  90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

  RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track
  @browj2 My second audio file is supposed to start with a particular image/video. If that image/video on track 1 moves, my audio/narration, text, and overlays had better move by the same amount, or I would be very unhappy. John, I'm not talking about
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 1/26/2023

  [Solved] Saving-Using Overlays MEP2016 Plus
  Thank you John and Ray on the last question concerning Plug In's ... I decided to download a few free overlays regarding 'Aged Film' which I saved to a desktop folder. Should I move/add the contents to the folder 'Movie looks' within MEP? Then drag
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @browj2 Please see my two screen shots below. The first is the current Top-down approach and the second is the proposed option. I don't like to refer to it as Bottom-up because the term gives the wrong impression. Note the difference in my example
• Samplitude

  No answers, created on 12/6/2023

  Midi Editor pencil now a 'red line'
  I'm back recording a song after a hiatus and can't seem to edit my Midi tracks. When selecting pencil to manually 'paint in' a VST note - the line denoting the note is now bright red (as opposed to its usual blue) and doesn't actually add a note,
• Movie Studio

  90 answers, most recent on 1/13/2025

  RE: Slideshow-Reducing photo length merges Audio track
  @johnebaker Thank you for sharing your shortcut tips - they will be useful. You also introduced me to some new functionality - Movie Master Effects (H). I wondered why I never saw it before then found it under the Effects menu. I never use the
• SOUND FORGE

  One answer, on 7/14/2023

  SF17 after overlaying vox to music, SF puts a thump in the track
  I was creating a watermark sample track, trying out SF17 and it created an audible thump after the watermark was overlayed on the track. Am I missing a setting?
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 11/4/2024

  RE: movie studio 2025 suite - sound missing on clips
  John,   its still checked...and they were there before its only when i did a test export i noticed the silence i also usually have video and audio on same track so its ticked unless i am adding music from another source and want to separate the
• Movie Studio

  33 answers, most recent on 12/3/2024

  RE: After Effects Rotobrush Effect
  @Gid I am not nitpicking, just pointing out that what you said was incorrect as it leads users to think that compositing cannot be done in MMS. You can do compositing in MMS and as defined by the Vegas manual. Even if you add the word "custom," you
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 2/2/2023

  [Solved] Does proDad Mercalli have an Aged Film Plug In?
  Hi Gang I noticed a 'Pop Up for' proDad at reduced price? Does proDad have a genuine 'Old Age Plug In' (not an overlay)? Is it possible to purchase/install a 'proDad Plug In' package and use it in MEP2016, or do proDad Mercalli plug ins only work in
• Photostory

  30 answers, most recent on 2/25/2025

  RE: How To Add Audio To Photostory Deluxe 2021 Slideshow
  @Robert-Madison Hi, Again, it took the first image and the last image and put them in the slideshow, with NONE of the images in between. I don't know what you are doing wrong. Post a screen shot of what you see just before you import. Watch the
• Video Pro X

  165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

  RE: [Closed] Website Observation
  @CubeAce @Reyfox @johnebaker @Gid @Betovalle  I'm a little more optimistic about VPX. In terms of market segment, I see it sitting between MMS and Vegas Pro. Coming from Video Studio and Pinnacle studio, last year I purchased MMS2024, VPX16 and
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 8/11/2024

  RE: Timecode + Speed
  @big_guitar I don't think so. While you can split the timecode object and apply the speed control to it, if you split it (so you can go back to normal speed, the rest of the timecode is in the wrong position. You also can't use the object-stretch
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @Can-Dive  Track down, Track up, Track centre out.. do the Hockey Cokey, this thread can be confusing, I've mentioned my preference, I'm with the Vegas approach, that is now the program I open & despite having MS for 20yrs I hardly open it
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @Can-Dive, @CubeAce, @emmrecs Hi . . . . a program setting option to place the overlay tracks over the main video track rather than under . . . . That would certainly help users moving to MMS/VPX. Personally, having used many different video editors
• Video Pro X

  15 answers, most recent on 2/14/2024

  RE: Blur Rectangular Selection
  I am getting closer to my expected result. My new PNG file I created in PhotoShop is 1920x1080 image size. The white image is an exact overlay over the image that I want to mask from my frame export. When I use Effects|Load effects mask.. and select
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  Hi John I've been using the method you described above (inserting the black object behind my overlay photo) for years with MEP, and it's worked nicely. But with Movie Studio I can't find a way to Free Proportions in order to resize the black object.
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 8/12/2024

  RE: Insanely stupid question - Graphic overlay
  @Richard-DeVito Hi . . . . I did the red box trick and it worked. . . . Assuming you mean the method @browj2 gave you, this is the simplest method for what you are trying to achieve. . . . . I am still concerned as to why transparent png files
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @browj2  This is how MS feels to me, it has always has & it's bugged me from day one, It's a long time ago but I faintly remember when initially playing with masks it wasn't easy when the camera is pointing up the tracks as apposed to looking