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I live in the US and I am trying to digitize some old German family VHS Tapes with "Rescue your ... ". I am using the latest version of the SW and AD Converter, just bought it. Tapes are in PAL B recorded with German VHS Camera, VCR is also a German

Rescue Your Videotapes!

33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

RE: VHS capture quality is very poor

@cmclernon I'm back. 😉 Could you download the Video Easy PDF manual (for Movie Studio, it's on the Help menu>Download PDF manual) and post it on Google Drive for us. I'm assuming that the actual program you're using is Video Easy; the name of the

Rescue Your Videotapes!

33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

RE: VHS capture quality is very poor

@CubeAce @cmclernon The use of a TBC. Does it specifically deal with the cross hatch moving pattern we see in this video or does it do more? Is its job to line up the top bottom fields more precisely or have something to do with timing or

Rescue Your Videotapes!

13 answers, most recent on 5/22/2022

RE: Recording analogue video

@cmclernon Got that. I think I'll be having nightmares tonight! 🙂 The first thing of note is the wobbly right edge. This is a classic characteristic of VHS. It's fixed by using a line TBC, either in the VCR itself, or an external TBC. Those wobbles

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 9/20/2025

RE: [Closed] preview pictures unable to be seen

@Jan-Johnson This is a user based forum, you're talking to people who are helping you from their own good nature, the ones with an M on their icon are Moderators who help oversee this forum, they do that voluntarily, they're not paid Magix staff, If

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 5/12/2022

RE: cut out a portion of a picture and put it in a picture

@Former user Hi Gid. There is only ever one reason I very occasionally use a tiff file. All three of my DSLR cameras shoot tiff as a native format and the image files are a direct readout from the camera sensors and therefore are 16 bit colour

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 4/8/2022

RE: Capturing a still from video in a project

@Lilia Hi, I empathise with you, sometimes I'll search & search trying to find the solution, if i was trying to capture a picture from the screen, Export a JPG wouldn't be my first thought, a lot of programs (Vegas) have a 'Capture a snapshot'

Movie Studio

43 answers, most recent on 2/15/2022

RE: Does MEP offer the feature of adding 'boxing-arena' style light flare?

@CubeAce I've an old GoPro for when i want to look ridiculous & put it on my head when filming my work, viewing from my point of view, through my eyes sort of thing, that's basic H.264 AVC & my phone camera, Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, up to

Music Maker

157 answers, most recent on 12/30/2025

RE: Wishlist for the next Music Maker!

Lets say I want to hear track 10 (which is midi and has vst) playing some other sound (patch). When I close the vst, the name of the new patch doesn't update into that field which has the name of the patch (or sample). At the starting screen there

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 2/28/2022

RE: Cleaning up source VHS video data, noise, frame slipping etc -

@g4bee I will second Jeff's comments re noise reduction using Neat Video: it is amazing. I have experimented with denoising with Virtual Dub and seen some brilliant efforts of others using AVISynth, but for ease of use, Neat Video is the way to go.

Other products

28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110

Great information AAprods, a lot to digest and consider here. I understand your workflow better now, so thank you. I didn't know those USB capture sticks were that cheap. Maybe I should have just gone that route from the beginning, although the mini

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 12/21/2021

A query relating to slideshows

Greetings This is really a continuance of my post nearly half way down this page https://www.magix.info/us/forum/release-movie-edit-pro-2022-your-experiences-your-movies--1281607/ which is the original post about MEP 2022. I was going to post this

Other products

28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110

@Jeff-Reed When using the Panasonic ES15, are you using the Es15 as a throughput device only (post VCR output), or are you actually recording a DVD, and subsequently exporting that DVD recording to your computer? Only as throughput/passthrough. The

Other products

28 answers, most recent on 12/19/2021

RE: Windows Software to import Video with a Canopus ADVC110

AAprods, excellent info there. Good to know that the newer USB sticks are more pure/lossless. The video samples you provided show the very clear benefits of the ES15 and S video outs. 1) When using the Panasonic ES15, are you using the Es15 as a

Movie Studio

32 answers, most recent on 12/7/2021

video capture issue, program or capture device

source(s) - usually vhs PAL tape, either pre-recorded or off-air tv recording intent - transfer to DVD (form my own use) i've always had this problem with motion in scenes with movement otherwise stationary it looks fine. (both of me watching the

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 11/19/2021

RE: MEP MX cannot connect to my USB webcam, other software does. WIn 10

@NJKatwoman Hi NJ. It is true and on the forum we have seen some people with problems using USB webcams with Movie Edit Pro. Normally this has been found to be down to the drivers the webcam is using. Some webcams do work apparently but I have no

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 9/29/2021

RE: Uncompressed AVI files give very large data rate

@jak.willis Any 'codec' is an instruction set that tells the computer how to construct the data into a file that can be read by another program. In this case to show a video. Compression or not does not come into the equation. It is still an

Rescue Your Videotapes!

4 answers, most recent on 5/21/2021

RE: Interlacing

@Ricadonna Hi . . . . . does this mean that I should export to a non-progressive format for the clearest picture . . . . Assuming the source/captured video is interlaced - then neither are 'clearer' then the other - it all depends on the media

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 5/9/2021

RE: ISO created, VOB file audio identified as MP3

John the clip was for demonstration purposes of what happens, just chance I captured that image but the recording is for backup purposes for me only. To make it clear, it was recorded on Magix MEP 2021 on a laptop, and the 'copyright' is my blu-ray

Rescue Your Videotapes!

40 answers, most recent on 2/22/2021

RE: Importing NTSC VHS on PAL system

@johnebaker @CubeAce Is the camera you are using to play back the NTSC tapes the same one as was used to record them? YES I suspect the camera is outputting the NTSC video on the PAL carrier frequency, ie what is commonly called NTSC 4.43 - most

Rescue Your Videotapes!

40 answers, most recent on 2/22/2021

RE: Importing NTSC VHS on PAL system

Hi @CubeAce commented: . . . . I don't think John answered your question earlier as to which drivers you should be using either.. . . . I did not need to as @VHS-lady has already commented that other tapes (PAL) record fine, which leads to the

Movie Studio

15 answers, most recent on 2/1/2021

RE: Burn failure - videodeluxe.log shows missing 'mc_demux_mp4_ds.ax'

Hello emmrecs, Thank-you for taking time to draw me a picture – it helped! I will eventually try this method for comparison. Referring to the jagged-lines problem – please note that there are NO jagged lines when I play this rendered video (as mp4)

Rescue Your Videotapes!

3 answers, most recent on 1/25/2021

Video capturing issue

Hello, I want to convert my family video tapes but I get only black screen with white lines (screenshot 1). When video is paused I can see a single frame from my tape, also I can watch video in Rewind mode (screenshot 2). But every time when I turn

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 1/22/2021

RE: [Resolved]Align audio with video/audio track not working for me..

I've used this function a lot before.. I basically have a camera that records audio and video. I then also have a lapel mike hooked into a standalone Tascam DR-05 audio recorder. Once I'm ready to record, I start the camera and then the audio