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Here is how I did it. In BluffTitler (BT), set up the Bluff text with mask effect and picture as texture In BT, added 2020 text, keyframed movements Exported just the BT text with mask effect and picture texture as transparent avi Removed the mask

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118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.

@CubeAce Hi Ray, I have posted the problem on the BT forum. Take a look at the image below and let me know if that is what it is supposed to look like when the moving date goes into the other text with bg. I updated the video and it put it on

Movie Studio

22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

See this site for NV's gift to the video editing world. It does an amazing job, particularly on the digitized film by cleaning up the video noise You can say that again! I'm most impressed by it's noise reduction. I installed the Virtual Dub plugin

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

Intuitively I had expected it would take longer for the program to trawl through a 13GB AVI file than e.g. a 2GB MP4 file of the same clip, @Richard-Curtis To illustrate the point that size isn't related to difficulty in editing, I'm currently

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@Richard-Curtis Hi I hadn't appreciated the distinction between AVI and DV-AVI, and couldn't understand why I was getting these huge files when working with AVI clips that resulted in slowing the program down when I tacked a few of them

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@Richard-Curtis . . . . I can now see that both arrive at similarly sized MP4 files in the end as determined by the required resolution, frame rate etc. - so that's why (as you point out) they take around the same time to recode. Is that correct? .

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@Richard-Curtis Hi, When I edit my DV AVI files, I just use the imported source. This has always worked fine for me...except for being reminded that I'm so far behind in making proper videos out of all of these that I'll never catch up. I use the

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@johnebaker Hi John Thank you for your response My original question arose from two issues I had somewhat belatedly come across (I had previously been importing and editing MP4 files for the past few months so the AVI dilemma hadn't arisen until

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@Richard-Curtis Hi . . . . just a question of the right intermediate format to employ to get from AVI to MP4 via MEP. . . . . Why is it a question of using an Intermediate format at all? I agree with @CubeAce use the DV-AVI files as is. Unless MEP

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22 answers, most recent on 5/27/2020

RE: Optimum Video Format for Editing and Export...?

@yvon-robert @Scenestealer @CubeAce Hi It's not actually a file compatibility problem, just a question of the right intermediate format to employ to get from AVI to MP4 via MEP. And my Pinnacle days are over...(!) I uploaded the tapes some years

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11 answers, most recent on 5/22/2020

RE: Buzzing audio for imported AVI files

@Jim-Raines, @me_again, @emmrecs Hi Jim Thanks for the MediaInfo analysis. The issue is the FireWire Application that captured the AVI has created a Type 2 AVI file, ie it has 2 audio streams, MEP can only use one stream. Try this first - in MEP,

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 5/22/2020

RE: Buzzing audio for imported AVI files

Greetings, In older versions of MEP I've occasionally had audio problems with imported AVIs. If memory serves me well, I had some success with "curing" the audio noise by going to File-Settings-Program-Import/Export and under Import Formats

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 5/22/2020

RE: Buzzing audio for imported AVI files

8mm camcorder & FireWire Application to capture AVI. Here is Text View: GeneralComplete name : D:\Video\Raw\2020\Created MP4\10271994_03071995.aviFormat : AVIFormat/Info

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11 answers, most recent on 5/22/2020

RE: Buzzing audio for imported AVI files

@Jim-Raines Hi and welcome to the forum. . . . . captured video from a 8mm camcorder that creates AVI files . . . What device and software did you use for this? The issue you are having looks like and audio codec/bitrate/samplerate issue. Can you

Video Pro X

16 answers, most recent on 6/18/2020

RE: Firewire IEEE 1394 to USB 2 or 3

I really would just use your workhorse to capture your DV tapes onto an external drive and then transfer the DV-AVI files onto your laptop. All that very expensive box does is provide firewire access, something you will not need after you have

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 5/22/2020

Buzzing audio for imported AVI files

I captured video from a 8mm camcorder that creates AVI files. When I play them in Windows the audio is clear. When I import those AVI files into Movie Edit Pro Premium 2017, the audio has a buzzing sound over the whole track. I changed the Audio

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28 answers, most recent on 5/20/2020

RE: Title examples

@CubeAce Hi Ray, I have BluffTitler Ultimate, version 14.8.0.2. There is a 64 bit version coming out soon, so you may want to wait before buying. In the meantime, you can download the trial and try it out. You get a hundred or so example templates

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No answers, created on 5/16/2020

Frameserving from Virtual Dub to MEP

Never thought I'd be asking this after all these years but I'm getting into some more VHS tapes and am trying to use Virtual Dub filtering for pre-processing before frameserving the video to MEP. I pulled out my Frameserving tute (attached) but it

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9 answers, most recent on 6/23/2020

RE: Newly transferred video corrupted with prev video when editing - BUG

@Amanda-Hanson Welcome to the Magix forums. First, can you please read this post and give us ALL the details about your computer etc. From what you write it sounds as if you are saving each imported video file to the same directory/folder and that

Movie Studio

One answer, on 4/28/2020

RE: DV/AVI file only imports 1.23 seconds of 20 min

Scott, weird, because MEP loves DV-AVI! Fastest timeline in The West! That said, I think (it was years ago now) I rarely used MEP to actually capture; too unreliable. I would suggest you try changing the file from type 1 (or 2) to the other

Movie Studio

One answer, on 4/24/2020

codec to decode the format 'V210'"

Hi I have Maigx movie edit pro plus version 17.0.3.178. I am trying to import a *.avi file but it says i have to install a codex to decode the format v210. How do i do that? file that i try to import info Format

Video Pro X

4 answers, most recent on 4/17/2020

RE: Collaboration with Premiere Pro editors - best export/import settings

@Craigster Hi . . . . We have been exchanging files back and forth, exporting as MP4, full HD (1080i, 1920x1080, 29.97), via h.264. Is this optimal? . . . . That depends on what the edit/render cycle is - these files are a compressed format and

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7 answers, most recent on 4/21/2020

RE: need help with 2 issues

@Mark-Trahan Hi . . . . very few also allow you to sharpen a blurry picture. AVS Video Editor has it and interestingly, ConvertXtoDVD also has a very good 'sharpen' feature. . . . I don't know if any of the Magix video programs have that feature .

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7 answers, most recent on 4/21/2020

RE: need help with 2 issues

Hey Jeff, Thank you for both responding to my post as well as the nice welcome to the forums. I would have responded to your post a couple of days ago, but within hours of my original post I caught a whopper of a flu and was bed ridden for the last