• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

  RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium
    Hi John CB, I looked at the links, thanks for posting them.  I'm not sure how SmartSharpen Pro is better than the Sharpen tools within MEP?  Can it do anything with a subject, like a bird on a tree branch, in which the tree is in focus and
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

  RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium
  Hi John EB, Thanks for this information.  I've never used masks even with photo editing!  I have one question.  You mention applying the mask to an *object."   Do you mean a single frame, or a full scene with said object?  And if that object
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

  RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium
  When Dragon first came out, while I was working, I saw how time consuming the "training" is.  I don't have that kind of patience.  Also, I can't see how it could possible work with video and photo editing software. Is Pixelan Film Touch an
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

  RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium
  Hi Kami A good use of John EB's method is to correct the fall off in focus or light towards the edges of some lenses especially wide angle adapters. Using a graduated circle mask to sharpen or lighten the outer parts of the lens field. Another
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 12/29/2015

  RE: I'd like to know if others are experiencing problems I'm having with MEP 2016 Premium
  Hi Kami . . . . One thing MEP doesn't do - maybe video editing software can't do - is identify a limited area to sharpen . . . . You can actually do this to many of the effects as follows: Select the object to be sharpened and sharpen
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 12/14/2015

  RE: Making the Hands of God
  Hi Anirban . . . .  a soul leaving the body. . . . . This is a 'Freeze and go' effect there are many ways of doing this. If you are using your digital camera - IIIRC it will allow you to take a still image while recording - use the remote
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 11/30/2015

  RE: using one video over another
  Hi, Which version of MEP? See some of the tutorials. This one, which is old but good. This one which uses masks but shows how to get a picture-in-picture (PIP) effect. Another recent one. There are others. Read the manual. Look up PIP and
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 11/25/2015

  RE: Field of depth
  Hi Whether this can be done depends on: Sufficient difference between the background and the subject you want to remain in focus - this determines whether it is possible to create a mask from the video. How accurate you want the background
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 11/1/2015

  RE: a little help required please.
  Hi The technique you require is more advanced and uses 'Masks' and may be Keyframes - I produced a tutorial for blurring out persons faces in a video. Starting with the tutorial, modify the timeline as below. Replace the pixellated video
• Off topic

  One answer, on 10/20/2015

  RE: does magix movie maker software allow user to hi-light, arrow or cloud (somewhere identify) a person on in the video?
  Hi Under the Effects tab, Design elements, Image objects there are several objects in the various sections which you can use to highlight / point to a person. Without knowing your skill level with MEP the basic idea is you add one of the
• Music Maker

  2 answers, most recent on 10/18/2015

  RE: i have mmm 15 premium that has multiple problems.
  Thank you for replying Version 15 Windows 7 ultimate 64bit Internal sound card i have tried to update but get errors have tried to reinstall the videos and masks are from mmm 2004 version they have worked in the past on version
• Music Maker

  2 answers, most recent on 10/18/2015

  RE: i have mmm 15 premium that has multiple problems.
  Hi, Version 15 or 2015? Please be precise. I will assume 2015. Dancers or mask - why do you want to load older versions of dancers and masks? They come with 2015. I have noticed a bug in the videos. If 2 video clips are placed at the
• Music Maker

  2 answers, most recent on 10/18/2015

  i have mmm 15 premium that has multiple problems.
  first problem can't load avi video's from an older version of magix like dancers or masks  as well as some avi files i created with magix when i was able to before? also when trying to load an mp3 file it's no longer stereo and sounds as if it
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 10/5/2015

  RE: Chroma Key
  Hi Bill, Did you look up Chroma in the manual? F1, Search, Chroma. Everything is defined, but not in detail. Try out the various ones to see what they do. Look up Chroma, Alpha, masks in this Q&A part and also in the Forum tab. There have
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 8/4/2015

  RE: Tethering
  Hi, There are a couple of ways to do this, but they get down to what John E Baker indicated. Here is another way. Create a simple white rectangle with a feathered edge. Make it quite large, like about 600 px high by 400 wide. I used Xara for
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 8/4/2015

  RE: Tethering
  Hi The technique you are referring to is called Picture in Picture (PIP). MEP has a set of PIP templates available on the Effects tab, Design elements, Picture in picture. What you want to do is not covered by these templates, however it is
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @Peter, Thank you for the explanation. I did more testing using the new Xara Designer Pro X11 (still on trial). In Xara, I used AVI uncompressed, Transparent, quality cannot be changed. When I check the Metadata of the AVI files produced by
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  How do you find time to use all your additional video-related software and still get your holiday DVDs made?! @Terry, My wife keeps asking me the same thing. I'm making a spoof on our little one-day tour outside of London. It's taking
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 7/19/2015

  RE: Crackleling sound on track in audio when bluring out faces etc...
  Hi We need more information: Which version of MEP are you using? What method are you using for blurring out faces?  Are you using my method here? Is the crackling repeatable ie if you use your method in a new project? John EB
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  John EB, you did it! It works. Thanks bunches. Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  @John EB, Well spotted! Thanks for figuring this out, and the answer was right in front of us. @John EB and Peter As for what Peter mentioned, I am still confused about alpha channels in videos. I made up this quick video using avi
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @jdycus It can be done with the clip you supplied - the mask you need is actually towards the end of the clip ie the section with the white moving bar - proceed as follows Place the lower third clip onto the timeline, below the
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
  Hi @ jdycus Apologies for being pedantic however in posting the lower thirds video file to Vimeo it has been converted and the Alpha channel lost so we are not testing like for like. Fortunately in this case the background, as I suspected
• Movie Studio

  22 answers, most recent on 7/22/2015

  RE: Applying Lower Thirds In Movie Edit Pro 2015
    @Terry and John EB, Did you find any other way than what I described? Any way to remove the black halo around the moving bright light other than using an alpha mask? Hi John, No, I got same result that you and John EB described