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Hi, Good catch John C.B I guess I was not really thinking because I know that most external audio editors add usually silence at the beginning of the audio clip. I mostly use audacity, and know the duration of that silence so I just zoom in and

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21 answers, most recent on 10/17/2014

RE: Deleting a cramped KF

Hi Peter and Terry, It's funny how we can look without seeing. Terry didn't notice the X to delete a keyframe. I didn't notice the left and right arrows on the screen for previous and next kf until Terry mentioned them, and we both didn't notice

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2 answers, most recent on 9/30/2014

RE: [Closed] Movie Edit Pro 2015 Plus: Vital Grey Borders Now Solid Black In This Version

Hi, No one here works for Magix and it is doubtful that anyone from Magix will see it. Maybe someone who has installed MEP2015 can reply. That is what this forum is for. Using MEP2014Plus with a video, I don't see any gray bars. The preview

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23 answers, most recent on 9/17/2014

RE: How Do I Move An Object AND All It's Keyframes? (Please Read)

Hi terry . . . .I conclude that the underlying reason for being unable to move it wholesale is that each KF specifies x and y position coordinates as well as size and rotation. . . . . Your conclusion is correct each keyframe for positioning,

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 9/10/2014

Movie Edit Pro 2015 - some issues with the trial

Well first off when I did custom install for the MEP 2015 trial, it tried to install some software called Simpliclean which has nothing to do with video editing (smells a bit like spyware). Now that I've loaded the program, once again just like

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2 answers, most recent on 9/10/2014

RE: Backgrounds for green screen

Hi Dan, Magix is basically a movie editor and the backgrounds supplied are for those who need something fast and don't want to make their own. They are just images or short video clips. Any image or video can work as a background. You can take

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8 answers, most recent on 9/1/2014

RE: How do I create a color background (matte)?

Hi, Further to Terry's explanation, you only get the downloads after purchasing the program. See the image below. Below is what will show up under Effects, Test images. Below is what will show up under Effects, Backgrounds. These

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3 answers, most recent on 8/15/2014

RE: Shaky Effect without Plugins

Hi Anirban, You can also simulate a earthquake effect by using key frames and then just moving the picture or title around. The plug ins are faster and easier to use but you can do it manually if you choose to. I personally would not bother

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One answer, on 7/18/2014

How to zoom using keyframes in Magix Movie Edit Pro

The layout seems to be a little different for zooming in on a video in earlier versions of Movie Edit Pro on You Tube. Could you please direct me to a video tutorial so I can better learn this process for Movie Edit Pro 2014? Thanks.

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3 answers, most recent on 7/17/2014

RE: music video editing

Hi Is the Video with sound track one continuous take of the whole song or is it clips (takes) from one camera with breaks in the song between changes of camera position. If the former then John's method will work but if the latter then the

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3 answers, most recent on 6/13/2014

Video disappearing in MMEP 2014 in edit and export

First of all, there is no stress as I solved this by creating a backup file. So treat this as more of a notification or oddity than anything else. In one of my projects which has mulitple different file types, framerates, and a fair amount of

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9 answers, most recent on 6/1/2014

RE: How can I shorten the transition time between slides? I have to put 300 slides into a 20 minute DVD. Thanks.

No problem, I am usually better at describing how to do it. Ok, so select all of the photos you want to shorten, then right click on your mouse. A dialogue box will come up, the third one down should say "change photo length" click on it and

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 5/29/2014

RE: How to line up original tune with my own instrument track in MM 2014

Hi, Is it possible that the tempo of each track is slightly different? To find out, you could try turning on the built in metronome and run each track as a solo. If they are off even slightly, they will not be synchronized and it will get

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19 answers, most recent on 5/21/2014

RE: MEP 2014 Design elements not displaying correctly

Hi Terry All my thumbnails appear in everything except P in P as mentioned by John C.B. Unfortunately I do not have X6 so can not copy them across . I don't either, so I've made a set from John C.B's screenshot. Here's the folder

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 5/14/2014

RE: Photo "fragments" in slideshow's timeline, can't remove

Hi, I am using 2013, so I am not sure if this works in 2014. I recently had a similar problem in Video Pro X6, which left one frame when I did a Ctrl+delete, for some reason. I can't replicate this, which is frustrating, so I understand your

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9 answers, most recent on 5/2/2014

RE: Markers For Frames Have Disappeared in Timeline!!

Hi, I see the individual frames and the timeline is in frames as are the markers. Using the left/right cursor arrows moves 1 frame at a time. In the image below, my cursor is at 54s 21 frames. See the image below to change the zoom to 1

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5 answers, most recent on 4/11/2014

RE: More odd Pixelan behaviour

Terry, I didn't think I could reproduce the problem as the images looked so close. I used a video (mts not avi) on which the ChromaWarp default effect is more obvious than yours. I gave it the default ChromaWarp and put the playback marker at

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11 answers, most recent on 4/14/2014

Copy/pasting video effect: Bug in Pixelan, MEP or neither?

To reproduce: 1. Place an object (still or video) on the MEP 2014 timeline. Call this object X. 2. Duplicate it and place it alongside. Call this object Y. 3. Select X and apply any simple MEP effect, such as a zoom. 4. Select X and apply

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One answer, on 4/4/2014

RE: Time limit on edits for sound on Magix Video Sound lab 2014?

Hi Angelo, We will need more information. 1. Are you using Movie Edit Pro (MEP) and exporting to VSCL from there? Or are you using VSCL as a stand-alone? 2. When you import the file onto the timeline do you see the entire file? 3. If not,

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 4/5/2014

RE: Is there a way to zoom out to black?

Hi NancyandBob, Below is how to use the Size & Position effect along with keyframing to zoom out. See the first image. Go to the timeline mode and click on the object (photo) that you want to zoom out; Set the playback marker at the

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2 answers, most recent on 4/10/2014

Rendered version doesn't include zoom edits

Hello, I'm new to this, so I apologise in advance if I don't make any sense! I'm using movie edit pro premium 2014 I've created a video and have used the zoom function to slowly zoom into people's faces. When I watch the video in the

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3 answers, most recent on 3/26/2014

RE: Repeated pausing at same point in playback

Hi Does the original video clip played on another player eg Media Player, VLC etc also pause at the same point? If so then there is a break or corruption in the video stream in the file. Try editting out a the frame where the pause occurs -

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4 answers, most recent on 3/17/2014

RE: Saving Effects

Anirban, Right click on your object and pick 'Video effects' >> 'Save video effects...'. You get the option to pick which of those applied to save and then need to pick a sensible file name so that you can find it again -- the default name

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6 answers, most recent on 3/9/2014

RE: MEP 2013 / 2014 - Favoured Settings

Whalebat, It's yeses -- and nos. When you choose the overall settings for a movie, [E] key sort cut, there is an option to have those settings be the default for any new project. Your effects on individual objects can be saved for future use