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@Alan-Workman Hi I have removed superfluous information from your post above regarding the CPU. . . . . It appears this screen eventually disappears after about 30 mins and then I can use the program. . . . I have the same CPU in my PC and the start

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 12/22/2024

RE: Change Playback Speed

@Brian-Pitts Hi The easiest way is to use the J, K, L keyboard shortcuts for play reverse, stop, play forward respectively. Successive presses of the L ( J) key will increment the forward (reverse) playback speed Repeated J (L) key will

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 10/29/2025

Hardware acceleration affected by motherboard?

Recently I had to replace a faulty ASUS Z490-P motherboard with a Gigabyte H510M board, having chosen the latter due to its compatibility with my existing RAM and CPU. I had a NVidia 1660Ti GPU in the original build, which I transferred to the new

Movie Studio

12 answers, most recent on 5/1/2026

RE: Have downloaded Magix video de luxe 2026

Thanks again, John. The one I bought on 3rd March this year is designated "Video deluxe 2026 Plus" and when I tried to get help I was informed that it was out of date and I had to buy the new "Video Pro X17" which I bought on 25th of April. I can't

SOUND FORGE

3 answers, most recent on 1/1/2026

RE: sound forge 9

You cannot bypass the activation process.. except with a hacked version, which is not recommended and probably would not work in Win 11 anyway.As I recall, Sony Sound Forge 9 needs a computer ID which 'should be' added automatically in the

Movie Studio

20 answers, most recent on 2/6/2025

RE: Looking to use this OPENING in newest video.

@FF22 Hi If you do not have Bluff titler and MMS 2020 has the Dynamic titles category, the Gentle Breeze title does a similar effect. If you do not want the text to be immediately displayed trim the start to where the text is initially static. The

Video Pro X

25 answers, most recent on 10/24/2024

RE: Working with GoPro Timelapses

@Brian-Obvilion Hi. The way to slow down the motion in a time lapse video would be to extend how many frames each image is displayed on the timeline rather than set an uncommon and generally unsupported frame rate for export. I'm surprised Go-Pro do

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/11/2024

Magix deliberately slowing-down older versions of MEP?!?

I've got MEP (pro plus / 2022 version)My laptop is a high-spec editing & gaming latop, and for the previous years MEP always ran fine.Suddenly though (for the past 2-weeks) MEP opens extremely slowly... Plus lags & freezes when doing even

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 2/21/2025

RE: Bluray playback issues

Greetings. I hope someone is still following this thread. I've played with the settings and different discs, but the bottom line is; using the burn default for NTSC 1080 bluray in both Movie Edit Pro 2019 and Movie Studio 2024 Suite without changing

Movie Studio

30 answers, most recent on 7/4/2024

RE: My video is freezing when I try to export it. (MP4)

@Tony-Rapisarda I'm sure @johnebaker might know more but your PC seems quite capable, You need to inc the MediaInfo pics, upload as many as you want. & can you say where your files are stored or where you're exporting to? If they're on an

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 3/22/2026

RE: Cleaning a really poor quality video

@johnebaker Here you go, John. Very slow on my laptop so I eventually commented-out the LSFMOD sharpener and used the sharpener in Neat Video in VDL 2026 (for another version; I imported it as a MagicYUV AVI). This one just used the last video Andy

Samplitude

24 answers, most recent on 12/23/2024

RE: Extremely slow download speeds!

Something similar is happening to me. The download speed was ok but the installing is extremely slow and it keeps telling me to click on "continue"...and full of errors. This is the exact same thing that's happening to me. It's really discouraging

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 1/20/2026

RE: No output option at 100fps for 4k-100fps video

@tom_frank Hi. Exported frame rates from video editors is often not a limitation of the editor but the codec used for export does not support those frame rates. Some video editors do not use some available codecs that may do as they quite likely

ACID

2 answers, most recent on 11/17/2023

[Solved] Cannot download ACID Pro 11 Suite

This issue goes to MAGIX, as it is an issue on your end regarding your download site's performance. Fluctuates between extremely slow to non-responsive. Constantly completing CAPTCHAs (completing this once should approve my IP for at least a few

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 5/11/2026

RE: Improve video quality with AI

@Alfns I have Topaz Video AI but have not really tested it on very poor footage, sorry. (The lowest "quality" I encounter is after digitising original VHS footage). The results are "pleasing" but the processing involved absolutely demands a powerful

Video Pro X

44 answers, most recent on 2/4/2025

RE: Problem with exported DVD

@johnebaker Hi John. I suppose there are lots of possibilities but I'm sure @emmrecs is experienced enough to ffw/rw a tape before attempting to play it after storage. Another possibility is tape thickness. A long play tape as opposed to a standard

Video Pro X

9 answers, most recent on 5/10/2025

RE: Export Glitches: One Black Frame?

@Wayne-McIlvaine Although I agree a half frame will/could cause a black frame the curious part for me is that the black frame isn't on the crossfade, it's before, the video loops the final part before the transition. Here it is slowed down Maybe

Audio Cleaning Lab

14 answers, most recent on 3/4/2025

RE: saving to MPEG 4

@jamesglynn Hi SFACL 4 can supports the following video formats for import/export:- MPEG-21 - this may need online activation (free) on first use. MPEG-4 (mp4) h.264 and AVCHD encoding) 1 MOV depending on the video encoding format of the source

Music Maker

22 answers, most recent on 3/20/2025

RE: [Solved] New Install; Music Maker 2024 - Laggy and Crashes

@johnebaker, @gjonny I reached out to Magix Support and we were able to satisfactily implement a workaround until the development team implements a permanent solution. Based on the feedback I recieved from Support, I realised that this issue has

Music Maker

22 answers, most recent on 3/20/2025

[Solved] New Install; Music Maker 2024 - Laggy and Crashes

Over the last 2 days, I've been trying to install Music Maker 2024 (32.1.0.13) on my new laptop. For some reason it has been an arduous process. Downloading sound pools was slow and installing instruments led to crashes. I even started over and

SOUND FORGE

2 answers, most recent on 10/17/2023

[Solved] SF Studio 17: Channel Converter - where did it go?!?

Hi all I have recently upgraded to SF studio 17 - but it seems much more semi pro than the other version I was on. And it has lost the really useful ability to bounce down from 2 or 3 channels to mono using the snazzy Channel Converter tool. When

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

Help with Recommending PC Specs

Hello, I have been using Movie Studio Platinum V15.0 for several years. I recentlyupgraded my video camera to a 4K system (was using 1080) and now my system is slowusing the larger files. Movie Studio often freezes the video during playback(audio

Music Maker

17 answers, most recent on 5/29/2024

RE: Music Maker just locks up & becomes un-responsive

@mongoose666 An extremely slow user interface is likely caused by the text cursor indicator or another program that accesses the text cursor, for example clipboard managers or password managers. You can disable the text cursor indicator it in the

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 4/18/2023

[Solved] Very slow rendering on new win 11 gaming PC

I have installed Magix edit pro premium on my second computer (PC) this pc has 48gb ram 12 gen intel I7 processor Gforce NTX 3070 Graphics 64bit os win11 version 22h2 Here is my thought after hours of trying to get this program to work like on my