• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  6 answers, most recent on 8/2/2022

  RE: Program not recognising my VHS player
  @Brad-Wilders Hi and welcome to the forum. Assuming you have installed the latest drivers for the USB capture device, the latest drivers are here, check the following: Windows settings, Privacy & Security, Camera and Microphone that the option
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

  RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect
  @CubeAce @CubeAce When you record the video you must get the interleaving correct at the recording stage or it will never show correctly as the interleave is 'baked' into the recording and altering the field order after in playback will only make
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  6 answers, most recent on 8/2/2022

  RE: Program not recognising my VHS player
  @Brad-Wilders Hi Try restarting the computer - Windows button, Power Button, Restart and see if the USB device appears when plugged in and the program then started. If not, then open Device Manager and check the USB capture device is listed in the
• Music Maker

  15 answers, most recent on 10/7/2022

  RE: [Closed] Cannot read loop names after upgrade to 31.0.1.13
  Hi, There is something definitely wrong with the Loops windows MMM2023 - 31.0.1.13. I dragged the window to the bottom and went through various problems, first with the formatting of the windows, then with adding optional rows. The Instruments and
• Video Pro X

  44 answers, most recent on 7/29/2022

  RE: How to do an overlay similar to this sample
  @CubeAce Hi, yep reducing resolution of the clip would help although i would like to be able to zoom in on individual boxes, but i shouldn't have any problem with the 1 track + a couple of masks, what if i had a timeline with a few dozen clips n
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon Regarding files sizes for digital capture of the VHS analog signal. To my mind I would want to use a non lossy codec that would give each individual pixel when digitized it's own set of values and not be grouped with its nearest neighbors
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon My VCR does not have an S-Video output socket. I just used a SCART adapter with an S-Video output cable attached, Would an RCA - S-Video cable help? I don't think a Composite to S-video cable will work because the luma
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  VHS capture quality is very poor
  VHS capture quality is very poor: There are bands of colour flicker or interference in the videos that come and go. Please find link to sample video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wo67UXo-zJ24ssrjcL3MlzSHOU4IxyJP/view?usp=sharing I use USB
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 7/5/2022

  [Closed] Capturing video to vegas pro16
  When attempting to capture HD tapes to vegas pro 16 I receive message Preview is turned off, how do I correct this? I am using Canon camera XAH1
• Movie Studio

  64 answers, most recent on 11/3/2022

  RE: Anyone uploading the 2023 Movie Studio ?
    Bugs are more or less fixed. Good.  Nope. The backup-stealing-the-mouse-bug is still there; try doing some colour adjustments when an autobackup runs! While the Section effect no longer disappears when you change objects, MMS's handling of VHS
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @CubeAce Is it possible that because in theory, a file could be used for upload to a file sharing site at a higher quality than possible for normal DVD / Blu-ray playback that is why Magix has included export to MP4? I don't think so. The only
• Music Maker

  15 answers, most recent on 10/7/2022

  RE: [Closed] Cannot read loop names after upgrade to 31.0.1.13
  Hi, There is something definitely wrong with the Loops windows MMM2023 - 31.0.1.13. I dragged the window to the bottom and went through various problems, first with the formatting of the windows, then with adding optional rows. The Instruments and
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon The dreaded VHS capture. 😂 A few comments: - The colour flicker, interference and wavy edges at the top are classic symptoms of a lack of some sort of Time Base Correction. TBCs steady the video signal with a new timebase and will fix
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 8/12/2022

  RE: Screen recording with sound issue
  @Zaza_from_Johor Might be something is this topic too: https://www.magix.info/us/forum/unable-to-capture-videos-images-with-record-videos-images--1293847/#ca1754153
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon Great stuff. MXV is not such a bad option; I think I mentioned it seems to be a lossless-type of format which will give you better quality for editing than MPEG 2. The only downside with MXV is that it cannot be read by external programs,
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 7/19/2022

  RE: MEP 2016 Plus - Appearance Of Thumbnail Link?
  @CarpentersMate Hi, I create my own 1280x720 thumbnails for my YT vids, quite often a captured frame from the video then edited with text etc. in GIMP saved as a png/jpg, but as mentioned there's the option to pick one of a couple of random pics
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon Hi. I don't think any of us use RYVT so we don't know first hand but in Movie Edit Pro / Magix Movie Studio / Video Pro X, there is normally a drop down menu somewhere just before recording that allows choice of file type for
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  I record in MXV then export in MPEG2. Funny I tried exporting in MPEG4 but the quality is considerably worse. There are no AV inputs on my camera, unfortunately. My VCR does not have an S-Video output socket. I just used a SCART adapter with an
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @AAProds @johnebaker @cmclernon Hi Guys. I'm sorry to be such a pain but I now have a few additional observations and questions. They have come about because of the second topic also covering this issue where Al thankfully correct one of me mistakes
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 8/13/2022

  RE: Editing now completely unusable
  The default setting for GOP length in VirtualDub is 250 frames, at 30 fps that theoretically means there is one I frame very 8.33 seconds. Persoanally I use Handbrake to convert videos when necessary, it produces correctly formatted h.264/h.265
• Movie Studio

  81 answers, most recent on 7/25/2022

  RE: HEVC/H.265 files in Magix 2021 premium
  @fergie Hi. I notice the drone is capturing the file in 10 bit. Are you using the DJI 'D' CineLike Profile? If so you may need to do some additional contrast and colour grading to it or it may look rather flat colour wise. Ray.  
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  No answers, created on 7/5/2022

  Magix video saver Flickering on Windows 10 PC.
  Magix video saver flickering. I have tried 3 different Windows 10 pc. One worked before it managed to capture an update.
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @AAProds Hi Alwyn . . . . I don't know why Magix persists with providing the field order option for export.. . . . The most likely answer is because not all MPEG 2 are BFF, My first Sony camera was TFF - recorded direct to hard drive. . . . .
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

  RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect
  @AAProds, @CubeAce, @Ove5868 Hi . . . .  Bottom field first . . . . Most analogue VHS captures are Top Field First  . . . . Both you are correct with qualification, VHS and most interlaced video are TFF, however, DV video is BFF. The big question is