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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

9 answers, most recent on 7/22/2024

RE: Outboard Photo edits not updating

@hdrechsel18 Hi, You can add PaintShop Pro to MMS as the external image editor. Then right-click on an image, and it will open the image in PaintShop Pro straight from the timeline. Upon exiting PaintShop, it will ask if you want to save, yes

Movie Studio

33 answers, most recent on 3/6/2025

RE: Odd Autosave Behavious with MS 2025 version 239

@me_again Hi Andy With patch .239, Autosave is working fine for me, with a new project and re-opening a pre .239 project (so far !). . . . . If I open an existing pre-v239, there are no autosaves even after an hour or so . . . If I save the project

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 1/4/2024

RE: Artifacts appear when exporting from Movie Studio Platinum 2024

@johnebaker Fare enough comment John. I have tried lowering the bit rate to absurd levels and it only results in a more blurry and blocky image. Then again we don't also know the quality of the original files either and that is negated somewhat by

Movie Studio

51 answers, most recent on 12/14/2024

RE: How to burn files to BD with menus but without having to re-encode?

@jak.willis Because if I’m encoding in 720x576 then it will be throwing away some pixels - am I right? Surely the answer to that largely depends on your original files. If the source of those files was anything above 1024x576 then pixels surely

Movie Studio

One answer, on 9/21/2023

RE: HEVC codec keeps wanting to be activated again. Version 21.0.2.138

@mikecompetillo I believe that the original activation key (numbers) you were given are intended for one-time use only so if you are needing to reactivate for any reason you cannot use the same key, sorry. What you need to do is email

Movie Studio

61 answers, most recent on 7/25/2024

RE: My MAGIX software will not cut a DVD to Disc

@rickduley, @AAProds Hi Rick. Al . . . . you can further reduce the eventual file size by removing the end of "Shane", at the start, and the start of "Jackal", at the end . . . I repeated the tests with the original mts file, removing the above and

Movie Studio

51 answers, most recent on 11/17/2023

RE: MAGIX Movie Studio 2024 Platinum problems

@AAProds Hi Al. I don't confess to even guess as to what is going on and I think in the past (and correct me if I am wrong) You said that AVIDemux does not re-encode the video files but I also see a not too considerable size difference in the

Movie Studio

43 answers, most recent on 7/18/2024

RE: Can not trim or delete portions of audio

@Eric-Elliott Hi Eric. All video and most audio editors use what is called 'non linear editing'. Meaning what you see on the timeline is a representation of the file. A note like in a notepad. When you add any file to a project you are saying to

SOUND FORGE

One answer, on 1/2/2024

trying to save a music file and getting error - Soundforge Pro 16

error - "an error occurred while opening a codec. I am totally unfamiliar with any type of software so any help is appreciated I have no idea what a codec is. Is that something that should be included in the original software or something else I

Video Pro X

58 answers, most recent on 1/21/2024

RE: Poor result on still image travelling

@Former user 50fps. I see the forum posted it as 30fps. Here's the original: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13bXLVaWGhCF2J6Q3UwnI-cm40hUbwlmn/view?usp=drive_link

SOUND FORGE

16 answers, most recent on 11/1/2023

RE: SF7 will not open WAV files

That's what it was - the original file was corrupted somehow. I opened it in Audacity and exported it as WAV. Now SF7 can open it. Thanks for the help! BTW, any idea exactly what the issue could have been?

Video Pro X

2 answers, most recent on 3/3/2024

[Closed] Had to reformat my computer, can't activate my product

I recently had an issue that required that I reformat my computer and install new hardware. I've got everything installed again already, but after downloading Vegas Pro 15 and use my serial number, it says it's already in use. I didn't originally

Video Pro X

29 answers, most recent on 9/13/2025

RE: Kodak C330 audio

@nicolesharp100 Of note is that Video Deluxe won't export MP4 ie H264 below 24fps; I don't know if VPX does. VPX will add duplicate frames as necessary to "fill up" the frame rate to 24 (or whatever you set) for export. Best to set the desired

Samplitude

13 answers, most recent on 3/8/2024

Samplitude Pro X Suites: Reinstallations Issues?

Last year I finally replaced my old PC which had Samplitude Pro X Suite installed, c. 2014. I had originally downloaded it from https://dl03.magix.com/samplitudeproxsuite_int_dlm.exe and activated it with the serial #. But that will that old version

SOUND FORGE

8 answers, most recent on 7/19/2024

RE: [Wrong length] troubleshooting for Sound forge 17 suite.

@byeongho-Cho I speculate that this might have something to do with the MP3 decoder/encoder. Because of the way MP3 works internally, it will add silence add the beginning and the end of the file. Usually this are only milliseconds, so I don't think

Samplitude

2 answers, most recent on 12/31/2024

RE: I broken a DVD of samplitude pro X,I can't install .

@atsunobu-horai Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. Exactly which version of Samplitude Pro X do you have? The DVD label would suggest this might be version 1? The current latest is 8 so yours is likely to be a very old version, I

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 4/24/2024

RE: can't access previous saved projects Movie edit pro 2019

@Paul-Fox Hi and welcome to the user to user forums. An MVP file is not a video file but an instruction set to tell the Magix program how to put the video files together that you edited ready for exporting to a rendered video file type like MP4 of

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 8/29/2024

RE: [Closed] Playback Marker/Red Line not moving/working

@Terri-Julians Welcome to the Magix users forum. Unfortunately, in your first post here you have resurrected a thread which is very nearly seven years old with a question which is similar but not the same as the one originally asked. Please do not

Music Maker

15 answers, most recent on 5/22/2024

RE: Mic sound distorted

I bought an M audio duo audio interface. I originally had two trs cables plugged in from keyboard to the two line in ports on this interface but then had another trs plugged into the headphone port on interface and then to keyboard speaker port. I

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 4/22/2024

RE: Persistent Export Bug

I went into advanced settings under Audio/MIDI and changed the buffer size from 1024 to 2048. Still having the issue same as before during export.Thankfully, in the time since I made my original post, I've discovered that the issue only appears in

Off topic

2 answers, most recent on 2/8/2024

Best Solution for sharpen/enhance VHS export

Hi-, New here... We are trying to clean up and enhance some MP4's that have been exported from VHS by someone else (I don't have access to the original tapes). Which of Magix's products might be best to use, to clean up the MP4? We are a group of

Video Easy

11 answers, most recent on 2/26/2024

RE: Registering a Downloaded copy

I think the moderators are over thinking my issue. I have software and a dongle that currently works and allows me to transfer video to the computer. My issue is that the software is a trial version with its limitations and I can't find a way to get

Video Pro X

58 answers, most recent on 1/21/2024

RE: Poor result on still image travelling

@MME007 Hi Marc Is this the 5 536 x 2 160 image in the MediaInfo analysis above ? If so it has been shrunk uploading it to the forum, the size now is 3840x1498. You need to upload to Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or other file sharing site, and