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@Dave-Benziger Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. The HDV, DV and AVCHD input options are to enable the downloading of already-recorded files from those different cameras, they are not for the purpose of taking a live feed from the camera to

Movie Studio

19 answers, most recent on 10/10/2022

No Video preview when transferring VHS tape to windows harddrive

I have been transferring movies from a mini-DV camcorder to my desktop Windows 10 computer internal hard-drive using a FireWire connection and Movie Studio Platinum 2022 and everything has been working great. Now, I want to transfer VHS tape movies

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@AAProds, @CubeAce, @Ove5868 Hi . . . . Bottom field first . . . . Most analogue VHS captures are Top Field First . . . . Both you are correct with qualification, VHS and most interlaced video are TFF, however, DV video is BFF. The big question is

Rescue Your Videotapes!

18 answers, most recent on 9/9/2022

RE: No Composite or S Video Connection on my Pc / Graphics Card

@NickDerrickson Hi Did you not get a USB video converter with Rescue your Video tapes ? The manual available under Help in the program has detailed instructions on how to connect the Player or Camera and capture video. If capturing from a DV camera

Movie Studio

19 answers, most recent on 10/10/2022

RE: No Video preview when transferring VHS tape to windows harddrive

@Moose The dark and mysterious world of analogue video capture beckons! Analogue capture is a non-binary thing: it depends entirely on the time, effort and money you want to throw at it. There are the perfectionists and then there are the rest of

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@CubeAce @CubeAce When you record the video you must get the interleaving correct at the recording stage or it will never show correctly as the interleave is 'baked' into the recording and altering the field order after in playback will only make

Rescue Your Videotapes!

16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

RE: captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect

@Ove5868 To answer the question what TV I used : A Samsung 55" ... 3 years old. The picture, as expected, was grainy but it didn't have the "flagging" or waviness to it, nor was the "pink noise" showing on the screen. It also looked like the two

Rescue Your Videotapes!

33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

RE: VHS capture quality is very poor

@CubeAce Is it possible that because in theory, a file could be used for upload to a file sharing site at a higher quality than possible for normal DVD / Blu-ray playback that is why Magix has included export to MP4? I don't think so. The only

Movie Studio

34 answers, most recent on 4/24/2023

RE: stability creates confidence in the product

@browj2 @Betovalle This is all I have on MEP. Version 2022 NEW FEATURES IN MOVIE EDIT PRO 2022! INFUSION Engine 3 MAGIX Travel Maps New controls Ultra-fast export with the INFUSION Engine 3 – 5x faster than real time Movie Edit Pro now runs using an

Rescue Your Videotapes!

3 answers, most recent on 6/18/2022

RE: already registeret, cant register

Thanks. I came to the software, to choose from video camera, from files, or from video machines . At push botton to dv camera, program shows i need firewire cable.. My new pc dont have this possible. And cable is not included. So I think it might

Rescue Your Videotapes!

3 answers, most recent on 6/18/2022

RE: already registeret, cant register

@Kim-HansenHi Hi Did you get a USB video converter with the program like this , and does your DV camera have a DV to Yellow/Red/White connectors cable like this If so you can use these to capture the video from the camera. HTH John EB

Movie Studio

42 answers, most recent on 5/10/2022

RE: Freezes

@HomeMovieMaker Hi. Glad to see you are making some progress. You may not be completely out of trouble yet as Sony cameras can record in various formats such as X-OCN, XDCAM SD and HD, XDCAM EX, XAVC-Intra, XAVC Long-GOP, XAVC S, NXCAM, Sony RAW,

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 5/2/2022

RE: Capture/Record mini DV via FireWire

@Thord-Hyllander Good oh! Yes, I like that Startech procedure. Nice and simple. Good luck with your DV editing. MEP loves DV; it was the first video format the program dealt with. I have fond memories of using DV with MEP.

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 5/2/2022

Capture/Record mini DV via FireWire

Hi , I have a test version of Movie Studio 2022 and Windows 10 Home Are there limitation in the test trail version of Movie Studio 2022 to record och capture videos from my Sony DCR-PC350E miniDV via iLink/firewire . The SW Movie Studio just say

Video Pro X

One answer, on 4/27/2022

[Closed] Import clips from DV Camera in Vegas Pro 19

How do I import video from a DV camera (Sony HVR-HD1000) in Vegas Pro 19? The tools I used in previous versions of Vegas do not seem to be available..

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

Wow, Jeff, where did that come from? Defensive, rude? Certainly off topic and done over the top of John, also a Forum Moderator. To say I was surprised was an understatement. Firstly, my original post briefly outlined that VE had worked in providing

Other products

One answer, on 4/19/2022

RE: Do you have a product to convert video tapes do video files like MP4.

@Leonor-Lobo Welcome to the Magix user to user forums, so not a contact for any Magix staff and your video convertor product is not ours! I assume you have an old copy of Video Easy, or Rescue Your Videotapes, or similar? Does this transfer the VHS

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

@stephen-l1837 I am not @johnebaker but first, please remember these are user to user forums, so no-one here is employed by Magix and this is not our company. However, as John says, Video Easy would normally have been supplied with the USB dongle;

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

Hi John The smoke is slowly clearing. Firstly, I got my copy of Video easy from your partner company, Ashampoo and it came with no hardware. Secondly, the software is Version 7.0.1.145 (UDP3), UG Code 8141 KA2. Yes, the camera did come with software

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

@stephen-l1837 Hi . . . . the first being about Firewire; it seems you are implying there is another method to transfer the video . . . . Video Easy should have come with an analog to USB video converter - the camera is connected to this using the

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

Same camera (a JVC GR-DV900), same computer and using a Belkin Firewire cable. I was having the problem before I reinstalled Video Easy. Thanks John

Video Easy

9 answers, most recent on 4/20/2022

RE: Recording has no sound

@stephen-l1837 Hi . . . . . My first 5 captured video .avi files had audio but of the last few miniDV tapes I have captured, have not. . . . . Are these from the same camera? How are you connecting/capturing from the DV camera to the computer - via

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 3/24/2022

RE: How to turn off "Play after Export"

Severe thread drift warning! Salivate over this lot of AVI codecs (and there's double that number lower down the list): I've never heard or read of anybody using Microsoft Video 1. Either uncompressed, LAGS, HUFF and some others (UT, Magic) are the

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 3/24/2022

RE: How to turn off "Play after Export"

Hi, i just exported in all formats, none played out after, Automatically preview exported clips is unticked & the one in export shows as Don't play, on some it's greyed out If i try to render as AVI i get this msg export as DV AVI won't let me