• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 7/14/2018

  RE: Using Masks and the Mask Generator FX in MEP 2018
  Well that worked! I think the thing I'm missing is a better understanding of what a mask is (seldom used them in the past). It appears I'm working backwards - as this has me applying the effect to the clip FIRST, then adding the mask. I was adding
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 7/14/2018

  RE: Using Masks and the Mask Generator FX in MEP 2018
  Hi . . . . nothing works. Am I missing a step? . . . . May be, watch this clip to see if it helps Note: I am using my own mask because some of the MEP mask effects are subtle. The Mask Generator does work, however you do need a fairly contrasty
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 7/14/2018

  Using Masks and the Mask Generator FX in MEP 2018
  I'm not having any luck using masks in MEP 2018. I've watched the videos, followed documentation, but still can't get masks to work for me. Highlight the video clip > select the effect (in this case color correction) > load a mask (it's placed
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 6/30/2018

  VPX export speed tests - strange results
  Using Surface Pro 4, i5-6300U @ 2.4 GHz 8GB RAM, HD is SSD OS Windows 1803 17134.112 VPX 16.0.1.255 I did some export tests to try to understand what takes time and what doesn't. Test 3-2 below was what annoyed me greatly. Something is drastically
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 6/14/2018

  RE: Looking to add background rain to a clip?
  I'm wanting to add some background RAIN effect. If you green screen the rain it will be in the foreground using John's technique. You would need to green screen or mask your subject in front of the rain for the rain to be in the background.
• Video Pro X

  32 answers, most recent on 6/20/2018

  RE: [Closed] [Feedback] How do you like version 16.0.1.242 ?
  Hi Mathias, Good of you to ask. Below is the list of problems that I put in my thread about the new version and it contains those mentioned by Jon and more. I have also included some problems that have been outstanding. VPX 16.0.1.242 Bugs (1 to 7
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 6/4/2018

  RE: How to achieve the "infinite zoom effect" with MEP 17?
  Hi, I presume that you have Plus or Premium. To do this, you need to understand keyframing, mask creation and Chromakey alpha. I used VPX, but you can use MEP for everything but the zoom blur at the end. I created a mask of the window using Xara
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 6/4/2018

  RE: How to achieve the "infinite zoom effect" with MEP 17?
  @johnebaker Hi, Below you can see better. I used the zoom blur effect under Sharpness with Level going from 0 to 50. I didn't play much with this. I think a Pixelan blur from BlurBender Pro would have been more effective. One other thing, I used a
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 6/4/2018

  RE: How to achieve the "infinite zoom effect" with MEP 17?
  Hi, I presume that you have Plus or Premium. To do this, you need to understand keyframing, mask creation and Chromakey alpha. I used VPX, but you can use MEP for everything but the zoom blur at the end. I created a mask of the window using Xara
• Movie Studio

  33 answers, most recent on 12/3/2024

  RE: After Effects Rotobrush Effect
  Hi, No, it just means more work. In Xara, as you advance the animation, the underlying video changes and you have to stretch and move the mask around to follow. The default is 0.5 seconds and the intervening frames will be created by tweening in
• Movie Studio

  33 answers, most recent on 12/3/2024

  RE: After Effects Rotobrush Effect
  Hi, No. Is this from a video clip or a photo? There is a big difference. Doing it with a photo is relatively easy. Doing it with a video is harder, especially if the subject moves much. In this case, you need to do rotoscoping which you can do
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 4/5/2018

  RE: X3D , How do I export them?
  Hi @joserobles1941 . . . . I feel kind of dumb asking these basic questions. . . . . To paraphrase @gandjcarr signature - The only dumb question is the one that never gets asked. @browj2 Thanks for the correction on Xara 3Ds file extension. As far
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 3/19/2018

  RE: Chroma Key, how to do it?
  Hi, Just to clarify a couple of points in Xara, the Magnetic lasso only works on an image, not a video. So when making a mask for a video with the video in the Animation screen, the magnetic lasso does not work. This is what I think that I showed in
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 3/19/2018

  RE: Chroma Key, how to do it?
  Hi José, As you have seen, it is not easy if you want to key out the background of people who are moving if you don't have them against a green or blue screen, or some other colour. I did one with my wife where we stood in front of a wall that had a
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 3/19/2018

  RE: Chroma Key, how to do it?
  Hi, One thind led to another. I started a post on if there were any Logo Animations and after purchasing an aplication which will let me do it, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it also included Chroma Key Effect. No. It's MEP that has
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 3/19/2018

  Chroma Key, how to do it?
  Hi, One thind led to another. I started a post on if there were any Logo Animations and after purchasing an aplication which will let me do it, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it also included Chroma Key Effect. Chroma Key is of special
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 3/9/2018

  RE: Video monitor alignment grid
  Hi, On the section screen, open the pop down and you will see things like: "Like movie," "Keep proportions," "Free proportions." Select the latter so that you can shape the box however you want. Then go to Size/Position. There, your cropped section
• MAGIX

  No answers, created on 2/27/2018

  [Closed] Patch for Video deluxe Premium (2018) - Version 17.0.2.166
  Important changes in version 17.0.2.166: NEW: Store special offers display Fixed error that impaired playback performance and export times for photo source material with dynamic zooms and collages Fixed error that prevented some effects (e.g.
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 2/24/2018

  Menus and Chroma Key messed up
  It started when I set sharpness for all tracks. The mask track with chroma key stopped working and all was black. I had to delete the "blue box" and reset the chroma key plus delete the sharpness box for the mask track. Now when I try to edit the
• Movie Studio

  26 answers, most recent on 3/12/2018

  RE: Logo Animations with MEP 2017, are there any?
  Hi Terry, Bernadette doesn't ski. Yes, I filmed that in the back yard. I added some trees. I wanted to hide the fence more, but it was too much effort masking my movements in Xara. I should have used the green screen. That reminds me, I still
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 1/26/2018

  RE: Blue Sky
  Hi, Try using Color Correction. See the images. Before: After: In VPX, as Jeff mentioned, there is more flexibility. If you happen to have New Blue Gradient Tint, you can possibly get a better effect: You can also use Xara to do some masking to
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 12/26/2017

  RE: Annotating / adding shapes to clips in Movie Edit Pro
  Hi, The Humble Bundle offer ends in 23 hours, so if you didn't get it, you don't have much time. If all you want are some rudimentary shapes, then almost any drawing program works. However, none of them can do what Xara does with MEP/VPX. The video
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 12/26/2017

  RE: Annotating / adding shapes to clips in Movie Edit Pro
  Hi Randy, Good point and one that I have made to Magix and Xara more than once, including to a marketing person. It seems that I am the only one on the English side of the forum using Xara and talking about it. There are some good tutorials on the
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 12/18/2017

  RE: VPX9 - No audio after using Solo
  Hi John EB, Thanks for taking a look. The movie was corrupt and copy/paste to a new movie solved this particular problem. However, I had other problems, like the one that I mentioned about exporting with masks not working properly and then I had two