• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  nothing would beat Uncompressed or Lossless Lagarith if you could stick the enormous amounts of storage it would chew up to capture 3x 2hour tapes. @Scenestealer Gday Peter, Lagarith Lossless is 30gb her hour, so not a tall ask, storage-wise, these
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @browj2 @hdrechsel18 @CubeAce Hi John I'll give the old DV camera a try. However, what is the advantage of that over capturing using the USB convertor directly to the computer? It gives you a cheap easy way of capturing to a lowly compressed non
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @hdrechsel18 @emmrecs @browj2 @Scenestealer @CubeAce Go the USB stick. Everything I have read says DV is inferior. For example, it's an old thread but read this on
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @hdrechsel18 @emmrecs seriously consider whether it would be worth you investing in something like one of the Canopus (Grass Valley) range of hardware analogue to digital video convertors. This will allow you to convert the analogue footage from the
• Movie Studio

  23 answers, most recent on 7/6/2020

  RE: VHS Transfer and Editing Inquiry
  @hdrechsel18 OK, I will immediately "declare an interest" in this thread, since I do this sort of work "professionally", i.e. clients pay me to transfer VHS (and other types of analogue and digital footage) to DVD. To me, the most "critical" part of
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/27/2020

  RE: Exactly what kind of .mkv matroska file will Movie Edit Pro Plus MX handle?
  ...If I use MMEP I never use it for color grading, the grading in the program is not the greatest, they do have some movie looks but they are not that great either most of them are not good at all, you can't adjust them once applied as well. It
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 6/27/2020

  RE: Exactly what kind of .mkv matroska file will Movie Edit Pro Plus MX handle?
  Magix has always been a problem when it comes to mkv's and it seems Magix does not make it a priority in or care about fixing the problem since its been years. As an editor I do get a fair share of mkv's because it does a better job at compressing a
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

  RE: Can add custom Transition effects?
  @Basheer What is the format of the transition video? AVI or MOV? Here is a screenshot of what to try. Make the glide transition on track 1. Open the transition settings and adjust to go in the direction of your leaf video. Put the leaf vide on
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

  RE: Can add custom Transition effects?
  @Basheer Hi What format are the leaf transition files in? AFAICS they are a video file format that supports Alpha channel - probably AVI files. If they are you can use these directly in MEP however you would have to use a Wipe transition between the
• Video Pro X

  One answer, on 6/16/2020

  gapture problem
  Has this problem been solved https://www.magix.info/us/forum/can-t-capture-vhs-to-4-3--1221061/ this was the result of capture a 4:3 file mp4 the nearest would be 720*576 but thats Pal and the sound ould work as the movies ntsc it wont excep avi as
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @johnebaker Hi John, Your link goes to BluffTitler, not Boris. BT definitely has avi with transparency as I showed in my examples. John CB
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John . . . . I didn't check Boris Titler. Does the standalone have export to AVI with transparency? . . . . I think it may- see here comment 5. HTH John EB
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John. I have never used AVI files for such things. I haven't used AVI within MEP with one exception. Within Borris you can apply settings similar to Photoshop with different blending options and you can save the work you have done as Blu
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, The question is about how to handle transparency. The only way is to export to an AVI file with transparency. MEP does not do this. I didn't check Boris Titler. Does the standalone have export to AVI with transparency? BluffTitler
• Movie Studio

  18 answers, most recent on 6/14/2020

  RE: Magix Bug with Gopro Hero 7 videos filmed upside down
  @AAProds @johnebaker @ovisopa Hi AA. Yes he did it deliberately, read his post. Hi Ovisopa. Yes I've exported as HEVC, MPEG-4 and AVI. All were OK. Longest conversion took 17 secs. I wonder if you have other video codecs on your machine other than
• Video Pro X

  133 answers, most recent on 8/18/2020

  RE: VPX12 New Version now out - New Features - Old bugs?
  @browj2 Hi John. Can someone check right-click on the audio part of a non-proxy video clip and check if the "Edit wave externally" command shows up?  It doesn't, using either an .avi or an .mts file and changing the editor fails to "awaken" it also.
• Other products

  4 answers, most recent on 1/20/2024

  RE: Xara will not export animations
  Hello - thanks for the replies and moderation.I didn't know which forum to use.I'm using XARA 3d maker 7.I have it on another computer and it works fine.I've deleted, rebooted and reinstalled with the same problem.Yup I use "save". I tried avi and
• Other products

  4 answers, most recent on 1/20/2024

  RE: Xara will not export animations
  @mikelockey First, you will see I have moved your post to the correct, 3D Maker, area of the forum. I have not opened Xara 3D Maker on my computer for some time, so just did, created a very simple animation and exported it as .avi, with no
• Other products

  4 answers, most recent on 1/20/2024

  Xara will not export animations
  I've used Xara for several years and suddenly I cant export X3D or AVI - any ideas please?
• Video Pro X

  22 answers, most recent on 6/3/2020

  RE: Video Pro X export speed tests
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . what the developers aims are but suspect the speed increase is down to them getting ready for more mainstream 8K output . . . . Both MEP and VPX already support 8K (7680 x 4320) in the project settings, import and export -
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 6/11/2020

  RE: Trying to Export a Movie in 21:9 Format
  @AAProds Greetings , I assume you're trying to export to MP4. As you've found MEP won't let you export MP4 to other than the 3 common ratios however try to export to AVI, Quicktime or even (I'm afraid to say it) WMV then MEP will use whatever ratio
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John Nice work especially the use of AVI with Alpha channel. @CubeAce AVI with transparency is a standard RGB AVI with an Alpha channel - commonly known as RGBA - as John CB has said this is the video equvalent of a PNG image. The only
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, Both VPX and MEP handle avi files with transparency, just like png files with transparency. Neither can export files with transparency. BluffTitler does exactly that - logos and text - amongst many other things. Look at the
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John. I have not heard of transparent avi files. That is interesting if only for text work or possibly logos but is there a specific setting for that? Is it something MEP can doas opposed to VP-X? Would this be a solution for another