• 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,
• 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 that
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 8/14/2023

  RE: MS2023: area outside of the viewable screen; change color
  @nhong-xiong Hi, sorry but no you can't change the background, as you've discovered I faked it to show what I believed you were looking for & I mentioned in my first comment "I changed it to green with magic. (Chromakey, a mask, overlayed on a
• Video Pro X

  80 answers, most recent on 6/3/2023

  RE: Video Pro X and Vegas Pro exports
  @ericlnz Hi Eric, Good question! Could you please start a new thread. I would like to see how you made the mask and for which purpose, then we can look at different ways to do it in VPX/MEP/MMS. Also, indicate if you are using a static or animated
• Video Pro X

  148 answers, most recent on 4/18/2023

  RE: General discussion on add-ons
  @Reyfox Yeah I think it was just time for me to want more, It was the need for a better masker that opened the fx door for me, In MEP I was manually moving masks around to blur my no' plate or using Attach picture to help move the mask. , I then
• Video Pro X

  175 answers, most recent on 5/27/2026

  RE: Video Pro X16 - New Features and Bug Repairs
  @Can-Dive I think the point that @browj2 was trying to make was that the highest track number would now be on the left hand side of the channel strips which would be a first for me at least to have seen on any audio mixer, virtual or real. I'm not
• Photo & Graphic Designer

  3 answers, most recent on 6/29/2023

  “Exit and Return To Document" Error
  I use "Movie Studio 2023 Platinum" to edit the video, using the Create overlay graphics/animation function. It then opened Xara Photo & Graphics Designer (19.01.65946), however, when I finished the animate mask, selecting "Exit and Return To
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 3/26/2023

  RE: Blurring Background
  @Jared-S Hi Blur modes available in the Effects tab, Video effects: Gaussian blur Dilate - under Art Filter Mosaic - under Distortion Artistic blur - under Sharpness Which you use depends on the effect you want to achieve eg see these
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @Former user Hi Gid. No, the mask produced in ProDad was purely only around the knight and horse. It looks forwards and backwards across the frames and adds the missing background from those frames where the mask is to sit while removing the masked
• Video Pro X

  80 answers, most recent on 6/3/2023

  RE: Video Pro X and Vegas Pro exports
  @Reyfox 😁👍 I think that's asking for a lot tho seeing as MMS/VPX can't create masks or gradients, I opened NB Titler earlier after reading your msg just to see how it goes, I normally open it from Vegas or as the standalone, all was fine but
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @ericlnz Hi Eric In the case of your Katydid image the rain spots are easily removed using the Mask Generator in MMS and VPX as shown below This is the result I got - the top/bottom lines are because I did not adjust the image to match the project
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  @Gid Hi Gid. I had deliberately used another video clip and shrunk the size of the clear video portion because I thought that was what you were after. The clear selection could have remained large. I am glad you have your own solution. Sorry for
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
  Ok... I am back from vacation, sort of. I see no point in continuing this "conversation". Because something can not be done exactly as it is done in VPX/MMS does not mean that it can not be done. I would not expect VPX/MMS to be able to color grade
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/13/2023

  RE: Masking a complicated image
  @ericlnz Hi Eric, Could you please make your original transparent mask image available on Dropbox or something? I'd rather not have to redo it. Thanks, John
• Photostory

  3 answers, most recent on 6/7/2023

  RE: Struggling with zooming the way I want
  @michelle-m Hi, You can also do a search of this forum for Camera/Zoom or CZS and you'll find many discussions about it with examples, as well as other ways to do things, like using masks and the cookie cutter. John CB
• Movie Studio

  16 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  RE: MMS 2025 Suite - BCC Boris FX Chroma Key Studio
  @Clinton-Peck, @Gid Hi . . . . But despite the negatives it's still a good plugin & a big step up from the default MMS chroma key option . . . IMHO Yes and 'maybe', the components like Outside mask, Matte adjustment, Light spill etc are very
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 3/26/2023

  RE: Blurring Background
  @Jared-S Hmmm 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 roto mask work to do, even with Mocha Pro (Plugin version $700, Standalone+Plugin $1500) doing most
• Video Pro X

  65 answers, most recent on 4/7/2024

  RE: VPX prices until April 9, 2024
  @Betovalle @Reyfox @browj2 @johnebaker The tools in any of the video editing programs are all similar in use. Some editors provide additional options for some of those plugins but most are if you get used to them in one program you will soon get
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 2/26/2022

  [Solved] Transparent Background help/advice
  Not sure where to look and would appreciate some advice. After using a program to first animate a couple of still image(s), I then used Unscreen Pro to provide me with a transparent image. However, the result is that I have been given two files, an
• Movie Studio

  24 answers, most recent on 12/6/2021

  RE: [Solved] Ctrl-Alt-J, Ctrl-Alt-B, Ctrl-Alt-N
  Dear Forum MembersI have 2 issues to report:1) I bow my head to John CB for his sentence "I hope that there is more to it than that". Of course my job is NOT to extend the time the photo is displayed on the timeline !!! I am doing a 26-second
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  RE: [Solved] Thought bubble video
  @Larry-Burkholder Hi Larry. As I showed earlier the mask has to be black and white. White where the video inside the bubble needs to show and black where the background main video or still needs to be. If you have audio on separate tracks then place
• Movie Studio

  27 answers, most recent on 2/27/2021

  [Solved] Thought bubble video
  I created a bubble mask to place on a jpg. I want to l display a video in the bubble and display both the jpg photo and the bubble video. I can place the bubble on the photo and display the video in the bubble. I am using distortion to 'pull' the
• Video Pro X

  16 answers, most recent on 6/29/2020

  RE: [Solved] Attach a picture/text to a position in video without jumping
  @Brynjar-Gudmundsson It's ok, I don't mind answering your questions. Of course, I misread the subject, just opened the message and read. It helps if you repeat the heading with more detail for people like me who don't pay sufficient attention to the
• Movie Studio

  28 answers, most recent on 5/7/2020

  RE: [Solved] How to load saved 'video effects / facial bluring' onto a new video??
  @Apollo89x Hi Thanks for the method detail - as I said above 'You must copy and paste the effect on like for like The effect you should be copying is off the 'Cropped circle' object however depending on how you created this the method may