• Other products

  2 answers, most recent on 6/10/2014

  RE: Capture of still picture from a video
  Hi, John is absolutely right, photo editing software is not really designed to handle video.  Most of the common applications that are out there handle pretty much still images exclusively.  Having said that and having used pretty much every
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 5/1/2014

  RE: Smartsound
  Hi again, Further to my last posting, I looked at the differences in music between SlideShow Maker and Soundtrack Maker (SM). I learned something new. In SM, the ogg files are mostly soundpools with different instruments, which allows SM to
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 4/5/2014

  RE: More MEP DVD menu bugs
  Hi Terry, Last night before I posted, I went out foraging for firewood. Good King Dave across the street was kind enough to give me some. This morning the house is warm, the sun is shining, the snow is starting to melt in the sun, and it's -2C
• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 2/24/2014

  RE: Vasco da Gama - Travel Route Animation - example & questions
  Hi Terry, You are right, this gets long, but interesting. Q: Was v5 a bundled promotion of some sort? A: I looked back at the invoices and I received VdG5 as part of a special deal for  PhotoStory2013 with which I also which I got Photo
• Other products

  10 answers, most recent on 11/14/2013

  RE: Just the bottom line folks
  OK, here is the way I read the EULA at the following page... http://www.magix.com/us/eula/consumer/ "The music, video and photo files included with MAGIX products may only be used within the scope of producing personally created works to be
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 9/20/2013

  RE: MEP 2013/2014 add-ons; 24 GB?
  Hi Terry, Sorry about the length, but I have been trying to sort out all of the versions, files, plugins, installatons, etc., and you opened the door with your query. Starting with version MX (18), there is a whole series of install/uninstall
• Other products

  2 answers, most recent on 9/7/2013

  RE: Effects on Photo Manager 12
  Anirban, John is abolutely right, Photo Manager is really an image management program and not a great one at that.  Picasa is a much better image management application which has better facial recognition and more adjustments available, but no
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 3/17/2013

  RE: Is Xara Designer Pro compatible with MEP2013?
  Hi David I do not have personal experience with Xara Designer ProX but there is a very good description of it's use to design (animated) masks and objects, directly from within MEP by rt. clicking on the object in the timeline, if you read the
• Video Pro X

  2 answers, most recent on 2/22/2013

  RE: Post-Crash problem
  Jeff,         My apologies for not getting back to you sooner. It seems my problem was specific to the project which crashed. The introduction of fresh material to a new project freshly opened produced no problems. Accordingly, athough my
• Other products

  2 answers, most recent on 2/10/2013

  RE: How can I focus the logiteck webcam?
  To add to John's comments, photo manager is really just a picture file management application, and not a very good one at that, which is probably why it is free.   Try something like Photo Designer (which is also free), use the "sharpen" control
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 1/16/2013

  RE: how do i align a series of still images and turn them into a time lapse
  Mozleron, Not likely to be easy! First, are you OK with getting a time lapse from your shots? You can drag a group of photos to the timeline rather than one at a time but be aware the order will be the current sort order in the media pool /
• Other products

  2 answers, most recent on 1/7/2013

  RE: I have photoplus 9.0 how does it compare with photo designer 7?
  Hi, First, you question says your question refers to Photo Manager.  Are you looking to manage your photos or are you looking to edit photos?  I personally have no use for the Magix photo manager product, nor is the Adobe elements organizer any
• Movie Studio

  29 answers, most recent on 1/5/2013

  RE: New to Magix
  Hi, Actually I do use Avid but that is on a dedicated system.  I do this for a living but my focus is on the average person who has way more photos and videos than they know what to do with and want a nice video that they can show friends and
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 12/13/2012

  RE: Green screen results: Magix v PaintShop Pro
  Hi John, OK, I think I'm beginning to get some of it, albeit murkily! But I don't think this is relevant to the distinction I've raised. Because I've just done the same exercise on one of the original photos. No moving parts! That gave the same
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 12/13/2012

  Green screen results: Magix v PaintShop Pro
  I bought myself an inexpensive green screen with the vague intention of trying to amuse my grandsons at Christmas with some special effects. Grandad On The Moon, etc... I was impatient to try it although I didn't expect good results as it was
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 11/19/2012

  RE: Which version of Magix Movie Edit Pro I buy that would eliminate unwanted popping and scratching noise?
  Hi, I did not notice that MEP 2013 comes with Video Sound Cleaning Lab but when checking the web site, the basic version does seem to come with Video Sound Cleaning Lab while the Plus and Premium versions come with Photomanager MX Deluxe as part
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 10/22/2012

  RE: Where do you really need a video editing software ?
  Hi, This is a really good discussion on the topic of editing in general.  I do this for a living and a hobby.  As a hobby, I tend to go for either straigh cuts or dissolves (used to be called A B roll) for transitions and size/position, zoom,
• Photostory

  6 answers, most recent on 10/3/2012

  RE: who else has negative experiences with the Magix Photo Story
  Hi, You know, new applications take a little while to get used to.  The free windows applications are OK for people who just want to do basic things, and if that is you, then you really probably should have stayed with the basic applications. 
• Off topic

  No answers, created on 9/25/2012

  Free photo organizer
  I have been looking for a sophisticated photo organizer that has really good face recognition and have been trying virtually everything on the market.  I used to use Adobe Photoshop for editing photographs, but switched over to Xara Designer Pro X
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 9/10/2012

  RE: Jumping and Transparent Texts
  Hi Anirban, I can think of a couple of different ways that this may have been done by using a professional title application, or possibly a good photo application to create a mask that runs on top of the background video.  If you were to use a
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 9/8/2012

  Video noise: isolating cause
  In several recent projects I've had video 'noise' in my MP4 exports. Here's a very short example: Although most of the material was rather low quality (old photos like that in the example), I made the project at 1920x1080 because of a few
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 11/27/2011

  RE: Deliberate, or design flaw?
  Many thanks Peter, much appreciate those detailed recommendations. Some of those numbers made my eyes water - out of my league! The default that I see for my current project (set to 1280 x 720) is like
• Photostory

  4 answers, most recent on 1/11/2012

  RE: How to improve slide resolution for DVD slide show
  did you try to correct the pictures under the 'effects' then 'image optimization' section?  You can removed red eyed, improve brightness, contrast, white balance, color, etc....  Once one picture is corrected, you can copy this effect for all
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 5/6/2013

  RE: Is travel route animation really this limited?
  I am not sure how the travel route animation is limited, it does work as it is advertised to me, maybe it could use some new maps, it would have been great it they used Google maps with the terrain and all, but again, I think this is licensed for