• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  @johnebaker Hi John. I am fairly new to digital video, less than two years but I've been taking digital stills with higher end cameras since about 2009 and doing voluntary work for charitable trusts and local councils for about five years. Video
• Video Pro X

  7 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Add effects to whole track or whole output
  HI, Actually, I have trouble trying to think of a time when I would want to apply a video effect to all video/image clips on a track or in a movie. I believe that it can be done in Vegas, but then the work around needed would be to put "events" that
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  @jak.willis, @johnebaker Hi John, what you have described is the job for the quality slider, ie, the movement side of things in the compression used within the encoding algorithm. The bit rate compression happens from the sensor readings and
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  @jak.willis, @CubeAce . . . .each individual source file, direct from the camera, having a different bitrate? . . . . Without knowing the camera make/model, I would suspect that if you look at the various files, those that have a higher bitrate
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  Hi Jak. Pretty much, but because we don't see individual frames with our eyes, some blur in the individual frames around a moving subject within a video can actually give a more natural looking effect that trying to make it look sharper or have
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 11/25/2018

  RE: Bitrate vs Quality sliders for encoding video
  Hi Jak. Pretty much, but because we don't see individual frames with our eyes, some blur in the individual frames around a moving subject within a video can actually give a more natural looking effect that trying to make it look sharper or have less
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 11/9/2018

  RE: sync 3 separate tracks precisely by eyeballing objects audio wav
  @mintintegral33 We normally tell people to purchase at least the Plus version as one will quickly run into limitations somewhere with the basic (classic) version. The difference between the Plus and Premium versions is only with third party add-ons,
• Movie Studio

  14 answers, most recent on 9/28/2018

  RE: what are the best export definition settings to export projects?
  Hi Good advice there from the others, but I think you will find with the GoPros that the shutter speeds are dynamic (ie can not be fixed) and vary depending on lighting conditions to give the right exposure. On a bright scene this will push the
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 8/7/2018

  RE: VPX Mercalli V4 plugin - how to stabilize GoPro video - chest harness
  @johnebaker Hi John, Thanks for trying this out and the details. I get a very slight improvement using your values over what I had, but still have some bouncing up and down from walking. I tried a few more test, adjusting up both Pan and Roll and
• Video Pro X

  4 answers, most recent on 8/7/2018

  RE: VPX Mercalli V4 plugin - how to stabilize GoPro video - chest harness
  Hi John Try these settings: Camera: Sports cam Keep camera dynamic - off Avoid border - on set to 70% Movement tab Pan shot smoothing 22% Roll compensate - on set to 76% Border tab Best border Scale 71% Dynamic scale 85% Perspective tab Zoom
• Video Pro X

  25 answers, most recent on 6/17/2019

  RE: [Closed] Transition Plugins
    @Colorz Once again, you're showing stuff that is either done using the camera, manually, or someone made some of his own transitions templates using the tools available in the program, and saved them for reuse. In the case of your video link, the
• Video Pro X

  25 answers, most recent on 7/19/2018

  RE: 25p from digicam to export 50p or 50i ??
  Hi Just to be clear Paul, your issue is with jerking when you play the DVD on a DVD player, once you have burned it - yes? If so then the suggestions made by John about hardware acceleration probably wont help. I do not think there is any chance of
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 7/4/2018

  RE: Strange video artifacts when using pro DAD Mercalli
  Hi and welcome Is this some kind of a bug? No. Mercalli V2 and V4 work superbly in MEP. The jello effect is the CMOS rolling shutter effect caused by the camera moving while the CMOS sensor, used in most modern digital cameras, is exposing
• Movie Studio

  25 answers, most recent on 6/26/2018

  RE: Using the 'Auto Lighting' feature ~ I've got a few basic questions...
  I film around 50 weddings per year, and frequently have lighting problems during the speeches when the head table is in front of a very bright outside window. As subjects move during the speeches, the unmanned cameras frequently under or overexpose
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 5/31/2018

  RE: New Patch announced for MEP Premium
  Hi KamiI presume your screenshot is a magnification of a portion of an exported frame (SD? HD?) and it looks like compression artifacts caused by too low bitrate export settings rather than moire or jaggies. As you mentioned slow motion, I imagine
• Movie Studio

  30 answers, most recent on 5/31/2018

  RE: New Patch announced for MEP Premium
  Hi John The J/L cut feature does not ungroup the audio from the video. Holding down Alt just allows separately moving the ends of each separately. Once done, you can still move the ends without holding down the Alt key, but moving by dragging either
• Video Pro X

  20 answers, most recent on 3/21/2018

  RE: Does Video Pro X still Smart Render?
  If smart render worked properly, then it would have the advantages of fast renders and minimal loss of quality, but it must be very difficult to implement reliably in video that uses interframe compression such as the various flavours of MPEG. It
• Video Pro X

  7 answers, most recent on 2/27/2018

  RE: VPX Create panorama crashes is any exposure effects on images
  Hi John CB No problem here with either VPX or MEP 2018, the interface functions correctly with or without adding camera panning movements. This is a function in MEP and VPX I have never used - until now! I have two dedicated panorama stitching
• Movie Studio

  26 answers, most recent on 3/12/2018

  RE: Logo Animations with MEP 2017, are there any?
  Hi Terry, Bernadette doesn't ski. Yes, I filmed that in the back yard. I added some trees. I wanted to hide the fence more, but it was too much effort masking my movements in Xara. I should have used the green screen. That reminds me, I still
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 2/1/2018

  RE: V.disappointing import quality of HD footage. What am I doing wrong?
  Hi . . . . Then tried importing the HD footage recorded through the NTSC HD camera . . . . I suspect part of the problem is because of mixing NTSC and PAL video formats. Is there a reason why you are recording in NTSC 29fps? The PJ340E is capable of
• Video Pro X

  5 answers, most recent on 11/24/2017

  RE: rendered video stuttering - backward and forward, not skipping
  Hi We need more information: Windows version and is it up to date?  Press and hold down the Windows key and the R key - in the dialog that opens type in winver and press enter.  Software full name and version number - as found under Help, About . .
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 11/7/2017

  RE: Where is my Movement Effects Menu?
  Hi . . . . Movie Edit Pro Premium . . . . Please include the version number as found under Help, About . . . so we know which version you have. . . . . I am trying to apply some movement effects, but that menu simply isn't on my screen! . . .
• Movie Studio

  One answer, on 10/19/2017

  RE: Can I edit videos with two different frame rates?
  Hi . . . . Can I edit videos with two different frame rates from two different cameras in one timeline? . . . You can, however depending on the difference in the frame rates and the project settings, you may experience some jerkiness in exported
• Video Pro X

  13 answers, most recent on 9/30/2017

  RE: deinterlace my video clips does not work?
  It would be interesting what Media Info reports on the attributes of the file as John has suggested but I don't think it can identify that individual scenes are de-interlaced correctly. My suggestion would be to open a new project and drag the