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Hi John and Kami All the best for the New year! Only applies to interlaced video - it suppresses flickering when interlaced video is converted to progressive, eg when exporting as MP4. I don't agree with you John but this area is quite

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32 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: Changing photo length: why this behaviour?

Hi John, Thanks a bunch, you've cracked it. Pans &/or zooms ==> duration setting doesn't work. I'm using the workaround you suggest. As mentioned in my post 20th Dec, for a large number of photos I'm applying it to all simultaneously,

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32 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: Changing photo length: why this behaviour?

Hi Terry and John, I did some more tests using MEP2014 on my wife's portable whilst watching the snow fall in Charlevoix. We skiied today,leaving tomorrow. In Slideshow Maker, as soon as you add pan or zoom effects, the default automatically

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32 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: Changing photo length: why this behaviour?

Hi John, I'm not sure I really understand your last post. I don't use templates, I just set my own. Nor do I apply the slideshow wizard to movie clips. Take the simple example of loading some JPGs, imported at 4s. Suppose I want a mixture of

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22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium

Hi John, Title window.... I don't use MEP Templates, but the titles were created with my templates in V. MX18. However, I created a few new ones, no templates, with the same issues. Thanks for the advice about changing size the last thing

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32 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

RE: Changing photo length: why this behaviour?

Thanks both. You're right, both ends are changed. So KFs placed at each end (a typical arrangement with simple pans and zooms) both vanish when the duration is reduced! But I can't see why it's 'logical' that the KF area doesn't report the

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3 answers, most recent on 11/27/2015

RE: Why won't MEP 17 burn a dvd?

Just one movie is in the project. I did not use a menu this last time thinking that maybe the menu was the problem. I don't have a Red Smoke template. for some reason I only have three templates even after downloading and installing the Video

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 11/21/2015

Trying to have a text symbol move relative to a certain video object. Calculation area maps 100% but text floats. Wonder Why?

I can't figure what I'm doing wrong, Using Movie Edit Pro Plus. Video Object is on Track 2. Text object "( )" that I want to move with an object in Video is on Track 3. I've aligned the "( )" where I want it to start. I've clicked Attach to

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 11/15/2015

Pan and zoom individual photo's in PhotoShop 2016 Deluxe

I have spent days trying to figure this out. I want to take ONE picture, Start the picture with a zoom into an individual - the zoom out to the whole picture. I have tried everything but I guess not the right thing. Without this, I can't

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No answers, created on 10/29/2015

Is there a ProDAd Mercalli V4 for Dummies?

I figured out the pan smoothing, but everything else in the dialog box is HUH. The PDF Hel file refers to V. 2. It says "Note: For this effect to work correctly, the correct field setting for the video must be used." I can't find this in the

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2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2015

RE: MEP Image stabilization doesn't seem to work well

Hi In reference to MEP's stabilizing tool - To add to John's comments:- 1.The section for analysis needs to contain distinct areas with strong contrast/colour/edges which can be locked on to. Generally the larger the area the better the

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2 answers, most recent on 10/15/2015

RE: MEP Image stabilization doesn't seem to work well

Hi Which version of MEP are you using? If MEP2016 are you using Mercalli 2 or 4? . . . . . drone footage and are having a hard time getting smooth video on windy days . . . . . Unless the drone has a sophisticated active stabilised gimbal

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10 answers, most recent on 10/3/2015

RE: MEP2016 - now available - Comments?

Hi Kami, Off the top of my head and from what I remember from VPX6 which came with Mercalli V2, V2 opened the external program, executed and then returned the result to VPX6. In VPX7, which came with V4, V4 is a plugin and works within or at

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4 answers, most recent on 9/30/2015

RE: Deinterlace?

Hi @Peter . . . . I presume you mean 1280 x 720 and not 1240 x 720? . . . You are correct - missed the typo !!! . . . . I guess their suggestion to deinterlace to 720p is based on the fact that 1080i is only half the vertical resolution

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4 answers, most recent on 9/30/2015

RE: Deinterlace?

Hi Terry I guess their suggestion to deinterlace to 720p is based on the fact that 1080i is only half the vertical resolution of 1080p so you might as well encode to 720p which would be the effective vertical resn. after deinterlacing anyway.

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4 answers, most recent on 9/30/2015

RE: Deinterlace?

Hi Terry The reason for the de-interlace is because LCD monitors are Progressive scan devices, as are LCD Tv's and as ou will have noticed they play interlaced video OK. The real advantage in using a Progressive video is for mobile

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3 answers, most recent on 9/2/2015

RE: How is this Effect achieved?

Hi Anirban Watch this video on how to set up a steady cam at the end you should then see how the shot was done and why it is smooth between movements. I cannot recommend Steady cams which do not use gimbals, ie those with a floating

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3 answers, most recent on 9/8/2015

RE: Movie Edit Pro 16 has random dots on Preview Monitor. Removed and reloaded program. Still same??

Dell 8400, 3.6 Gz Pentium 4, 76 GB hard drive, 1024 Mb memory, 32 bit(?) Windows XP. Tried Resetting the program and resetting the monitor. No chenge. Will try to send screen shot.

Photostory

16 answers, most recent on 8/25/2015

RE: In Photostory 2013 I want to zoom into particular areas of a photo

Hi Carri, Hope you had a nice hike in the mountains. Here is a quick and dirty tutorial that I made using PhotoStory 2013 showing keyframing for zooming and panning. You can type values into the boxes for more precision, and you can move the

Photostory

One answer, on 8/1/2015

RE: In the slideshow Complete_Demo that comes with Photostory, how is fun.jpg animated?

Hi, It is very simple. Switch to timeline mode. Click on the Fun object. Click on Effects, then select View&Animation, Size & Position. Look at the bottom of the Media Pool window and you will see the keyframes for this. I saw that you

Photostory

One answer, on 8/1/2015

In the slideshow Complete_Demo that comes with Photostory, how is fun.jpg animated?

Individual zooms and pans - how is it done? I'm on Windows 7 using 14.0 of Photostory 2015 deluxe.

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 7/25/2015

RE: mp4 videos come out sort of blocky

Hi . . . . All my videos are recorded at 720p, and I am currently exporting them at 1080p . . . . That is the problem - trying to make an image 1280 x 720 upto 1920 x 1080, this is called upscaling, and, in effect, making the individual

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4 answers, most recent on 7/13/2015

RE: Mixing and mastering

Hi, You didn't say which version of MMM that you are using - basic or Premium, so I will assume 2015 Premium. There are less effects in the basic version. See the tutorial on Mixing for Samplitude Music Studio on this web page which is close

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7 answers, most recent on 6/20/2015

RE: MEP 2015 - How to split audio tracks from an MP4?

Hi I am not sure I follow.....if you unlink the Video and audio and then Ctrl + Drag the Audio down to the 3rd track T3 then you have two separate audio files which you can adjust independently. Then to make one the left channel only -