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@john-x If you want to put some space at the start of your movie as per my suggestion using a still image, all you need to do is to set the Mouse mode for all tracks: Then click on the very first object in your movie; all the movie objects will be

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 6/12/2025

Error "Cannot prepare WAV header"

Hi, I'm running a Windows 10 64bit. I had the Photostory 2022 and was trying to create a slideshow. I have added the pictures (JPG & JPEG files) and music (m4a) and some snippet videos (mp4 & MOV). When I try to preview the slideshow, it

Video Pro X

25 answers, most recent on 10/24/2024

RE: Working with GoPro Timelapses

Thanks for all the advice here, I really do appreciate it. Per the previous comments of some of the suggestions. Here's what I've tried before and since. Sorry for the long message/narrative :-). On the setting the frame rate to 1 and dropping in

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 9/18/2023

RE: MEP and NUC PC

@martin-brennan Assuming I have got the correct specs for your machine and the SDD presents no problems then the only problem could be one of keeping an eye on the temperatures. It is difficult to say with any certainty but if the CPU does have that

Video Pro X

31 answers, most recent on 12/13/2022

RE: PNG loss quality when I export video in MP4

@Artorias93 Make up a JPEG and place solid green/blue in the area you want to be transparent and use the Chroma Key effect to make the main area transparent. It may be the PNG format that's messing up Magix. I can't do this... The color of grey

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 1/18/2023

RE: movie studio 2023 suite questions... quality issues + other items/etc

@Not-Applicable Hi and welcome to the user to user forums. In order. A: jpeg images are not that much different on export to what I see on screen when played as a 4K video file but if you need less compression then choose bitmap which has no

Movie Studio

24 answers, most recent on 12/1/2022

RE: MP4 plays fine outside magix, but plays blank/black in magix.

@deanccino @johnebaker The only odd things I can get from that file info is the size and ratio of the captured image which is the same size as this jpeg. What is the screen ratio and resolution of the monitor you are capturing? Ray.

Video Pro X

31 answers, most recent on 12/13/2022

RE: PNG loss quality when I export video in MP4

@Artorias93 Is there a section to set the images export settings? No there isn't. The export of all objects on the timeline, be they images (stills) or video, will be exported at the movie settings or export values. Your export parameters are more

Video Pro X

31 answers, most recent on 12/13/2022

RE: PNG loss quality when I export video in MP4

Unfortunately, the images are not of the highest quality originally, but on my screen (FHD) they turn out to be well defined... And it also happens in the Magix editor...But when I export they lose a lot of quality...Here the pics:I can't use JPEG

Movie Studio

30 answers, most recent on 3/26/2023

RE: Blurring Background

@Jared-S Hi . . . . I’m looking for something on par with OK Green-Screen . . . . As @Former user commented - 'Green-Screen can be very accurate, without your vid already having a green screen background you're going to struggle or have a lot of

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 10/31/2022

RE: Import PNG sequence...PLEASE HELP!!

@fred-slocombe Hi Fred. Does not the camera manufacturer have a free program for stitching stills to video? DJI offer such a program for their time lapse footage but only deals with either their DNG files or jpegs. Nikon do a similar package for

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 10/12/2022

RE: Blur sensitive information

@LFCS Hi, Add Gaussian blur (or any effect) to your media, Top right Load Effects Mask, Use Size/Position/Rotation to resize & position that mask, If you want to blur multiple parts of the screen, Export that frame from the timeline as a jpeg

Movie Studio

19 answers, most recent on 12/30/2022

RE: Project created with MS17 Platinum Pan zoom don't work in MS2023 Plat

@Tom-Lamson Hi Thanks for the additional information that helps a great deal. From the MediaInfo data the MOV file video format is JPEG encoded - this is an encoding format not supported by MMS 2023 natively and requires Quicktime to be

Photostory

9 answers, most recent on 12/29/2023

RE: Travel Maps version 5.0.0.500 crashes

Hi Here are the specifications of the various computers I've tried version 5.0.0.500 on - first the two computers are the ones on which it crashes and the third computer is the one that still works (as it's using version 5.0.0.485). I'm deliberately

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 4/5/2023

RE: [Closed] Animated Gifs? And stop source file Deletion.

Some helped- thanks. Yes mr nice guy forum stalker. I looked, and the site is confusing- I guess on purpose so maybe you can be an extra wonderful person and show us noobs how great and extra smart and tough you are. Offer no help but fast to show

Movie Studio

27 answers, most recent on 2/14/2023

RE: This is just plain Weird.

@Former user @browj2 @me_again @AAProds @johnebaker [Update] Weirdness continues. Trying to rebuild the newer version of the project again but this time making sure all files used that were used now reside in the project folder I also copied over

Movie Studio

27 answers, most recent on 2/14/2023

RE: This is just plain Weird.

@AAProds Hi Al. My project was on an internal drive and was one first created in 2018 using that version of MEP. That project is still in tact. Other files to be added to the project were created on another two internal drives and the files kept in

Video Pro X

3 answers, most recent on 3/4/2024

Program keeps crashing every few minutes - help!

Hi all, I've been using Video Pro X for several years now with no issues. A few weeks ago, I began working on a video project, and everything was going smoothly at first. However, I am now experiencing repeated crashes every time I attempt to work

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 1/11/2023

RE: Slow rendering Movie Studio 2023

@ASty The video appears to have a cinematic screen ratio. If you have added that ratio to your clips, that is one effect that is mainly dealt with by the CPU rather than a GPU and does slow down exports. Other effects added can also slow down

Movie Studio

27 answers, most recent on 2/14/2023

RE: This is just plain Weird.

@johnebaker Hi John. Newly created jpegs, and additional video clips are still in their original places as files came from different locations and folders. The project files were supposed to be in the same folder as the copy of the original folder I

Video Pro X

31 answers, most recent on 12/13/2022

RE: PNG loss quality when I export video in MP4

@Artorias93 Hi. Where do the png files come from? Can you right click on one and select properties and show the Details tab please? For some reason again I don't seem to be able at present to upload an example jpeg. I am used to working with quite

Video Pro X

6 answers, most recent on 10/1/2022

RE: Importing .MOV files

@cmichael52, @CubeAce, @AAProds Hi MOV is a container file format which can have various encoding formats for video and audio, h.264 and h.265 have been mentioned above, however there are also other formats, 3 being JPEG, PNG and Prores encoding of

Movie Studio

37 answers, most recent on 9/5/2022

RE: Video quality very bad after export /MAGIX MOVIE EDIT PRO PREMIUM

@Steve-McClelland I don't have an option with jpegs to take them at different resolutions but mine are all 4000 x 2668 pixels and around 4.5MPs. . Ray.

Video Pro X

31 answers, most recent on 12/13/2022

RE: PNG loss quality when I export video in MP4

@Artorias93 Hi. Where do the png files come from? Can you right click on one and select properties and show the Details tab please? For some reason again I don't seem to be able at present to upload an example jpeg. I am used to working with quite