• Video Pro X

  21 answers, most recent on 7/8/2020

  RE: Wishlist for future VPX versions (beyond VPX10)
  @johnebaker Hi John. As the default setting yes. A lot are still customisable beyond that and don't suffer the low contrast problems. There are people out there whose eyesight is challenged is various ways but still do photography and videography. I
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 6/24/2020

  RE: Looking to buy a decent Video Cam for £200 - £300 -SUGGESTIONS
  @johnebaker@johnebaker There seems little point in doing a camcorder comparison test if you are going to do post production on the output of them. He's mainly a photographer doing video to show his photography on YouTube. He has other photographic
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 6/24/2020

  RE: Looking to buy a decent Video Cam for £200 - £300 -SUGGESTIONS
  @browj2 Hi John. Judging from looking at some of his other videos and the fact he lives in Las Vegas I think it's possible but on the cheaper units I wouldn't have thought he would need it until he got to the higher end of the price range. A lot of
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  Hi Terry. Yes sure, my pleasure. I normally use Wetransfer so if you pm me an email address I'll send it back to you. I can't say I spent much time on it if I'm honest. I would normally do much more tidying up of the files but got a bit pressed for
• Movie Studio

  118 answers, most recent on 6/12/2020

  RE: Masks and the use of the Chroma Key Enquiry.
  @browj2 Hi John. You can if you wish 😉. John EB's solution above helps me a lot but I have plans to take this effect up a few notches in other directions yet. There's a lot that can be done in stills photography editing I'm trying to figure out how
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 5/10/2020

  RE: Question about zooming in Movie Edit Pro
  @jak.willis Hi Jak. It depends on how good your eyesight is 😂. More seriously, it also depends on how it's filmed and whether the video comes from the same source or not and whether they were all shot under the same lighting conditions using the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/3/2020

  RE: Still have Phantom audio playing in the middle of nowhere
  @CubeAce Hi Ray . . . . Smooth filter is a blur effect . . . . Smooth filter is an audio effect and the question mark referred to the colour of the curve - it was very difficult to see as shown below. . . . . but over sharpening produces what we
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/3/2020

  RE: Still have Phantom audio playing in the middle of nowhere
  @johnebaker Smooth filter is a blur effect John. It is a part of the sharpness effect. I don't really know about video, but over sharpening produces what we refer to as 'worms' or white spots appear in still photography and I guess this would help
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 4/27/2020

  RE: [Closed] When exporting to YouTube the color changed
  @RA-Cha@RA-Cha Hi. Not all web browsers are colour correct when viewing from the web. Stills photographers complain about this all the time. It's possibly your web browser. This has been proven on a few photography forums for stills viewing. Having
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/21/2020

  RE: Connecting DSLR Camera
  @Christopher-Sliter Hi . . . . stop motion animation, i.e. Lego, brickfilm, etc. . . . . The process importing into Movie Edit Pro is a technique I use for time lapse photography, however you must use jpg images and import them from the camera to
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/21/2020

  RE: Connecting DSLR Camera
  @Christopher-Sliter Hi Christopher. There is a little free program I use, to put jpg frames together form either Time-lapse photography or motion capture and produces a film that can be used in MEP or just played back in Windows. It's meant for
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 3/30/2020

  RE: Horizontal rolling bands due to LED lighting
  Hi Yes, rolling shutter is a different issue. A good explanation of what I was referring to here: https://www.fullexposure.photography/how-to-stop-camera-light-video-flicker/ but as Ray has mentioned the flicker rate is sometimes controlled by an
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 3/30/2020

  RE: Horizontal rolling bands due to LED lighting
  @Scenestealer @jonboy834 Hi Peter. I have one camera I can program to cope with different types of lights and mains frequencies but can only cope with one type of lighting at a time. It will not work well in a mixed lighting environment. Normally
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 3/28/2020

  RE: Moving/slotting images and transitions in Timeline Mode
  @FF22 I am by comparison to most here, relatively new to using any Video editing software, coming mainly from photography into video as my upgraded cameras gained decent video quality output. I personally only consider upgrading software if it no
• Photostory

  5 answers, most recent on 2/23/2020

  RE: Too Complicated
    Hi Jeff,😀 The only hobby that still is with me since my childhood is photography and I take a lot of photos and videos. I like to combine the still photos, videos and be able to create a videos create a beautiful shows. I would like to thank you
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 1/31/2020

  RE: Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus won't open
  Glad it helped. Sometimes any video editing program will need up to four or more times the size of all the video files used to move them around on the primary C: drive while processing or even running the program. Especially if the computer isn't
• Video Pro X

  22 answers, most recent on 1/15/2020

  RE: VPX11 - Color Space, Color Space Correction, Instruments Meter Setting
  @johnebaker Hi John EB Yes the Zebra stripes in video is very useful and again depends a lot upon the bit depth some cameras shoot at. Some cameras that did video in the past have been very low in bit depth but didn't advertise it. For stills I
• Video Pro X

  22 answers, most recent on 1/15/2020

  RE: VPX11 - Color Space, Color Space Correction, Instruments Meter Setting
  @browj2 Hi John . . . . turning on Color Space Correction limits (or reduces?) the saturation to somewhere between 75 and 100%, so it would seem that the maximum permitted is more than 75%, less than 100% . . . I have noticed this as well, since
• Video Pro X

  22 answers, most recent on 1/15/2020

  RE: VPX11 - Color Space, Color Space Correction, Instruments Meter Setting
  @browj2 @johnebaker I am reading this with some interest as it is very similar to problems regarding processing raw files in photographic terms. If I can make a few observations. None of this matters if the in camera footage is not exposed correctly
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @terrypin@terrypin@terrypin Hi all. I think John CB's first news desk is the closest to what I'd hoped for. I think what I would be after is something similar to what I can do with my stills photography where I can make it look like a convincing
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @johnebaker Hi John. I don't disagree that larger fans are quieter and my fans are only 3" but they are very quiet and running on a monitored speed controller. If I'm working with no sound on in my room I can hear my smartphone text 'microwave ping'
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @browj2 Hi John. First I'm surprised there would have been a difference in colour unless your HDMI and DVI outputs had different specifications for video. (Not impossible to happen but may be unlikely) I don't think that would have been at the card
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  @johnebaker Thanks for responding John. 1: Both identical monitors bought at the same time from the same batch. 2: using HDMI ports on both at both ends. 3: Always done that in the past for stills editing. 4: Same, but once every six weeks when
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  For anyone interested. I don't know if anyone bothers to try to set up their monitors for colour as some do for still photography processing but I've found one thing odd using Windows 10 and having to use the Intel graphics chip alongside my NVIDIA