• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 3/20/2024

  RE: Bokeh Effect
    @Ian-Schwartz I don't think Bokeh is quite the right word to use, Google has various explanations around 'Out of focus' & 'Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape'. I have an fx called S_RackFocus, the Bokeh effect doesn't work
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
  Hi all. I've been away camping (boondocking) for the last week with little electricity and intermittent cell phone access and attending and filming a wedding. @Can-Dive Currently, the main difference between VPX and Vegas is that Vegas has a team
• Video Pro X

  80 answers, most recent on 6/3/2023

  RE: Video Pro X and Vegas Pro exports
  you don't need composite tracks to do it. There is very little that I have seen done with composite tracks in Vegas that cannot be done simply on the timeline the way we do it in VPX/MEP/MMS. We're getting away from Doug's original question but
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 8/14/2023

  RE: MS2023: area outside of the viewable screen; change color
  @browj2  I think the OP is just using the wrong terms, This is a 16:9 project but I've stretched my window to show the grey that's on either side (behind) ----------- How did you get the green background? That video in the comment above is just a
• Video Pro X

  3 answers, most recent on 1/24/2024

  highlighted VPX items missing in the MOVIE STUDIO version
  Hi, I am evaluating the VPX15 version and these items below appear in the VPX15, highlighted as if they were absent in MOVIE STUDIO, and I didn't find a tutorial or specific information to evaluate the benefits.  1-Movie objects (nested
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @browj2  This is how MS feels to me, it has always has & it's bugged me from day one, It's a long time ago but I faintly remember when initially playing with masks it wasn't easy when the camera is pointing up the tracks as apposed to looking
• Movie Studio

  2 answers, most recent on 7/10/2023

  RE: Apply effect only to certain area
  @Christian-Schwaderer Hi, As mentioned by @Former user, here is a tutorial showing one way to apply a mask to limit an effect to a specific area: There is a lot more there than just the effect. You may want to watch the second tutorial to see
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
  @CubeAce  Hi, I've used Vegas for 4yrs now & find it the other way around, like you say there's a learning curve but there's a few things I'm now used to doing in VP that I get wrong initially when coming back & using MMS, like the track
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @ericlnz I right click - copied your blue/white image off screen - pasted in GIMP - removed blue (which bled into the feathered edges of the white, so there more than likely was some degradation, the little circle mask areas seemed quite a bit
• Movie Studio

  66 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

  RE: The output formats are messed up in Movie Studio 2024
  These are a continuation about ongoing problems for many years plus some bad ones as of the last update. 1.  When exporting a standard NTSC video with frame rate 24000/1001the resulting AVI has rate 23976/1000 and does not line up on the timeline
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @Former user With the bedpost image - no the camera isn't static as it was handheld.  Actually it's not a shot I'd remove the bedpost from.  I just used it as an example. If I did want to remove it then due to camera movement the mask(s) would need
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  I guess that Chrome Key of VPX/MMS can do the same thing. The Chrome Key of VPX/MMS is a bit like Vegas' mask generator. It can generate a mask for the target clips according to the Alpha channel or brightness value of your PNG image. Some more
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
    As for BorisFX Continuum Complete 2024.5 OFX plugins and VPX, since you have them installed (demo mode), I'd like to see BCC+Film Stocks accessed via the FX Editor. You should see this below. For me it's also the Pixelchooser / Mocha masking,
• Movie Studio

  5 answers, most recent on 7/7/2024

  RE: mask
  @derek-brown Yes you can do that but if you're swinging the camera you'll still need to keyframe the colour or text so it covers the plate, hard to say exactly without seeing the video, You can add a solid colour from Templates - Test Images, reduce
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 3/15/2025

  RE: Transition editing in Magix 2023
  @Tiempie-Lamprecht Hi You can create your own transitions, - see this tutorial for one method, The image below shows transitions I have created using this method. The procedure is the same in Movie Studio Note: creating the icon image and preview
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  Masking a complicated image
  As suggested by @browj2 this is a spin-off from https://www.magix.info/us/forum/video-pro-x-and-vegas-pro-exports--1324934/. Masking is a useful editing tool yet among my terrestrial video friends few use it.  But anyway masking is usually used to
• Movie Studio

  84 answers, most recent on 8/5/2024

  RE: Linking "videos" or "projects" question
  @Can-Dive Hi, Yes, patience. As far as I can tell, Eric's projects are quite limited, with 1 or more photos or video clips plus narration. Nothing fancy, no overlays, masks, collages at the beginning (or anywhere else). If he can make a transition
• Video Pro X

  15 answers, most recent on 2/14/2024

  Blur Rectangular Selection
  I have a screen recording that I captured as an MP4 video. I wish to edit this recording and blur specific portions in the timeline. I have search all over on how to accomplish this with Video Pro X15. I found a few YouTube videos, but those videos
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: MMS 2025 Suite - BCC Boris FX Chroma Key Studio
  @johnebaker Hi, yep it's a pretty good fx, I tested that first just to see what the other fxs were up against, with more testing (experience 😂) I could maybe get it a bit better. It'll be the latest version in Continuum 2024, I don't think Primatte
• Movie Studio

  13 answers, most recent on 8/26/2023

  RE: Title Text: How to make the immediate background of the text black?
  @john-x Hi, here's another option using only MMS features, Write all your text as you want, Duplicate that text event, (Ctrl+drag with the cursor) On the upper text event add Mask Generator, Then add Brightness Contrast, turn the brightness down to
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @browj2  I get that, you created some hand written text & then traced it with the TM route tracker, then i could see it was used for compositing with the other images, one at least is coloured in some way, using the text as a mask. exactly what
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
  @browj2 Off for vacation for the next couple of weeks. Heading to the mountains so internet will be spotty at best. Looking forward to your video. But if I am understanding your correctly, you are starting a blank project, and can do it several
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 9/19/2023

  RE: Privacy blur / motion tracking
  @mike_w Hi To add to @CubeAce comment For masking a single person see this Magix tutorial which is referred to in my tutorial Ray linked to, however the link no longer works. I must update that tutorial to the current version of Magix Movie Studio
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 3/18/2024

  RE: Wacom And Magix
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, Watch my tutorial. At about 4:40, I start creating a mask using the shape tool in Xara. And, I animate the mask. Please watch the tutorials this time or you won't understand what I am talking about. In this one, I create an object,