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@SomeMan Hi, On the preview, Movie Studio shows (picture) but produces a normal 16:9 horizontal video. I need vertical video 9:16. What am I doing wrong? You have a 9:16 project but you filmed 16:9 - that is what you did wrong. John CB

Movie Studio

15 answers, most recent on 5/8/2024

RE: Problem when dragging clip from preview window to timeline

@Can-Dive, I am pleased to read that together you can continue putting together your films. .....My preference would be to have this option on the main UI, but at least the option is available.... But let's talk about removing the audio from a

Video Pro X

38 answers, most recent on 9/7/2023

RE: H264 Export Frame Rate of 16.67 Possible?

@CubeAce Hi Ray, I did not clean the film before digitizing which probably could have reduced the amount of dust and hair significantly. I was worried about losing emulsion from the film and adding scratches. I had decided if any of the more

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 7/5/2025

RE: Selected Aspect Ratio Not Exporting

@Peaceful-Pixel There are many historical reasons for the few mainstream frame rates used for film and video. This short video from Angus Davies explains the history of its progression quite well. He doesn't go into the financial or audio benefits

Movie Studio

41 answers, most recent on 2/6/2025

RE: How to fix or smooth de-interlaced content?

@jak.willis But if the content was broadcasted deinterlaced, how can it be fixed? As I said in post 2. Try exporting it as MPEG 2. It will be re-interlaced. Whether that will actually improve the viewing experience, only you will be able to

Movie Edit Now

8 answers, most recent on 3/25/2025

RE: Getting Firewire to work on an old laptop fitted with a FireWire socke

Thank you for your reply. My friends camera is a Sony DCR-HC30E. I have had a look at your notes on WinDV and Scenalyzer and screen grabbed quite a few pages in case she wants to try your suggestions but I am not sure if she could cope with another

Video Pro X

44 answers, most recent on 2/4/2025

RE: Problem with exported DVD

@johnebaker Hi John, Many thanks for sticking with me on this! The client left me 5 VHS tapes; 4 have transferred and exported to DVD without problem (though no discs burned yet), 3 are single-layer, 1 is dual. The two-tape set is indeed a part 1

Movie Studio

89 answers, most recent on 5/5/2025

RE: Upon importing my photos, they turn to black and white or all black

@AAProds @Gid @Iris-Willis Hi Al. I for one benefited from this delve into file formats and although downloading the HEIF Image Extention on its own did not remedy the problem of even being able to see a thumbnail of the files on my pc. The link

Movie Studio

84 answers, most recent on 8/5/2024

RE: Linking "videos" or "projects" question

John, I'm going to try what you just posted, but I can't until the main question is answered, which is what files do I work with? All I see are MVP files and everyone says those are project files, not movie files which are MVD.Are the MVP files what

Movie Studio

5 answers, most recent on 2/23/2026

RE: Incorrect frame rate on AVI output, incorrect display of frame

The standard for the US is to have a film shot at 24fps is to put it on Blu-Ray at 23.976 (24000/1001). The standard for the transmission of video is 29.97 and also for DVD, which means it has to be telecined to fit a movie onto a DVD. All you have

Movie Studio

4 answers, most recent on 9/23/2023

RE: Creating a new Film template theme

I'm looking for creating kind of like the train intro, but I'm hoping to do more film like and not have to use AE or Premiere to make them.

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 5/15/2026

RE: MMS 2025: New AI Effects

@AAProds Hi Al, This is a good example of what we're faced with, with 8mm and S8 film. I took a stab at it using VPX16 so that you can see the problems on the scopes and what happens when applying various effects. You really should upgrade to VPX. I

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 11/19/2022

[Solved] How to remove the black bars in a vertical video

Hi. I have a short question. How to remove the black bars in a vertical video (for example from a mobile phone) in Magix Movie Studio 2023. Is there any fast option (video effect, tempalte) to adjust the video to 16x9 proportions, to change the

Video Pro X

14 answers, most recent on 3/28/2025

RE: Disable resample?

@browj2 Hi John . . . . If you want no "resampling" in any video editing software, all of you have to film at the same frame rate, no variable frame rates, and use exactly the same frame rate in the program . . . This is certainly a key factor,

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 1/24/2024

Play film as an endless loop

I am trying to do a video for my aunt's 90th birthday party. Each time I ask for it to play as endless loop, it gets to the end and keeps playing for another 10 Min. with blank screen then restarts. I want it to restart as soon as it stops at the

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 3/1/2024

movie of stage show but on stage LCD screens cause movie flicker

movie studio 2023 movie of stage show but on stage LCD screens cause movie flicker on playback i filmed a stage show but they used LCD for the backgrounds now when we watch the video the screens have the bars scrolling so movie unwatchable is there

Video Pro X

7 answers, most recent on 10/30/2024

RE: Is there a way to change the timeline seconds? For syncing.

@browj2 Hello John CB, .....What @jake-h wants is to be able to adjust the audio to less than 1 frame, which can be done as @johnebaker has shown (in VPX, not in MMS)..... About the above writing, we don't need to have a discussion about that, I

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 10/29/2024

RE: MEP 2023 | 2 video files (in 1-day) have been exported with corruption

@Apollo89x Hi . . . . footage itself was filmed at around only 8k bitrate . . . . Do a MediaInfo analysis of the ~ 8k bitrate footage - if you see this line in the video section: Frame rate mode : Variable This may be the

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 8/10/2025

RE: Is MS 2026 really any better?

@Pete-Lowland and there are more features such as stock footage and music downloads that you do not get in the trial version. I don't have ClipChamp installed on my computer, so can't comment on the usage of TTS. And, I am not a fan of anything that

Movie Studio

48 answers, most recent on 9/29/2025

RE: Weird issue with using Smart Copy/Smart Render in MEP 2019 Premium

@jak.willis Hi Jak . . . . so the content itself was shot on tape. So all that’s happened is it has been scanned or upscaled to 1920x1080. So seeing as the content itself is not really HD, I am worried that any quality loss will in fact be

Movie Studio

66 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

RE: The output formats are messed up in Movie Studio 2024

@clement5 Hi John C . . . . There are 2 specs X Resolution, and Y Resolution exif tags, . . . . The X and Y resolution tags are the number of pixels per inch for the width and height of the image and have nothing to do with the AR ratio. They are,

Movie Studio

17 answers, most recent on 10/30/2023

RE: When I play the red line on the video blocks is not on the right spot

Thanks Gid, this is indeed the problem. I have made about 250 films with the older versions and have never experienced this. I use the storyboard for quick cuts and when I am done with that i use the timeline for sound, titles etc. Using Storyboard

Video Pro X

7 answers, most recent on 4/24/2025

RE: Creating your own templates?

Hi @browj2, Following your steps above I tried to edit a Film template named "Pet" (pet.msi) based on your excellent tutorial on Movie templates. Pet is a simple single project compared to "Ice Cubes" (2014_Bright.mis). Unfortunately, even with

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 10/11/2022

[Solved] Video deluxe 2021 can't export to 17 fps MP4

I am editing old 8mm film video which fps is 17 and when trying export the video to mp4 there is bug that I can't export the video with 17 fps. Only 24 fps works...Only 17 fps works when export to avi but not when trying export mp4. Software is