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I had some problems with Music Maker yesterday, slightly longer loading times, audio not working, and even freezing where it couldn't play the song I was in the process of making. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but that seems to have made it

Rescue Your Videotapes!

20 answers, most recent on 11/23/2025

RE: Windows does not find drivers for the video grabber usb device

@Atte-Tahvanainen Hi Assuming the tapes play OK when a TV is connected to the SCART socket. Are the video tapes commercially produced? If so, then from your descriptions of what is happening, this sounds like Macrovision copy protection on the Video

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 10/4/2024

RE: [Solved] How do I get picture-in-picture for two videos one below the other

@RD_Jay Hi See the short video below. I have only shown the quickest way to do what you require. Note: the reference point for position in older versions was the top left corner, ie 0,0 of the preview monitor, in the new Size, Position, Rotation

Audio Cleaning Lab

3 answers, most recent on 4/23/2025

RE: Cleaning Lab 4 does not play audio files when "Play" button is clicked

I am having the same problem with Sound Forge Audio Cleaning Lab 4 on a Dell laptop running Windows 11. ACL 4 will record audio from a microphone but won't play back. I exported the test .WAV file to a USB drive, imported it into another Dell Win 11

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: 2026 Manual doesn't agree with program - Split Photostory, etc.

@doane HI . . . . the AVCHD, doesn't play back on my home BlueRay player . . . When I click to play either story it starts with the music playing and the first image, but won't advance to the next photo. I'm using the HD Static-General-Blue Grid

Samplitude

8 answers, most recent on 8/7/2024

[Solved] No Signal through Visualization

Hello -I recently figured out how to access my Realtek ASIO driver, however now there is nothing shown in Visualization when I play a file/track. Whatever i did to fix the driver somehow routed the things awy from the Visualization. WIndows 11

Video Pro X

45 answers, most recent on 6/6/2026

RE: DVDs cut don't play

@rickduley Rick, I don't have VPX 17 but what I do do these days (as burners become less plentiful and OSs advance) is burn to an ISO first, check that it plays OK in VLC Player, then burn it to disk using IMGBurn. That will help isolate where the

Video Pro X

44 answers, most recent on 2/4/2025

RE: Problem with exported DVD

Playing around I suspect The source is Interlaced LFF Whilst the output is labelled progressive my experience is that DVD players (at least old ones) always treat discs as interlaced It's being played TFF so the fields are jumping backwards and

Video Pro X

7 answers, most recent on 8/21/2025

RE: Import boosted video from Pixel-phone gives error

Sorry, I forget to mention: the boosted file is played without problems with VLC or 'FIlms and TV' or Media-player classic etc. VLC gives this info about the codec.

Movie Studio

10 answers, most recent on 12/22/2024

RE: Change Playback Speed

@Brian-Pitts Hi The easiest way is to use the J, K, L keyboard shortcuts for play reverse, stop, play forward respectively. Successive presses of the L ( J) key will increment the forward (reverse) playback speed Repeated J (L) key will

Music Maker

One answer, on 8/7/2024

My Magix Music Maker programme is faulty especially playing playback k

My Magix Music Maker programme is faulty especially playing playback : there's a loop of the introduction playing constantly over the rest of the playback

Video Pro X

15 answers, most recent on 11/13/2024

RE: VPX/MMS frame rate variable

@emmrecs In this last version (244), if possible, see: create a clip on the timeline that is longer than 1 second (important). Transfer it to the project folder. Navigate to it in the project folder and play the playback from the source monitor and

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 4/26/2026

RE: GL Transitions ?

@Reyfox Hi Tony . . . . Vegas Pro has supported GL Transitions for a few versions now . . . . Thanks for the heads up on this. A lot can be done in MMS/VDL/VPX with the available effects, this is one I was playing with in MMS/VDL back in 2021, no

Movie Studio

9 answers, most recent on 1/29/2025

RE: No sound / audio in player and export

John, Thank you for your reply. I will try to address your questions as best I can. I have used this program for a long time but would consider myself a novice. I use it for one thing, to convert VOBs to MP4. So here goes: 1) PC is an older

Photostory

15 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: 2026 Manual doesn't agree with program - Split Photostory, etc.

Tonight I burned three storylines to the DVD+RW disk using the same blue grid menu as before and it played back on my BD player this time. Extremely slow burning, but it worked. Is there anyway to use a custom menu image background or edit an

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 9/8/2025

RE: Is there any detriment in encoding everything at level 5.1?

I have recently discovered that for higher bit-rates/FPS you need to encode at minimum 4.2 level / 5.0+ for UHD & 4k. Doesn't your software automatically render at the required level? Best not to manually play around with the levels?

Movie Studio

14 answers, most recent on 3/2/2025

RE: Problems converting MXV to MP4

@RayBin The video can be played from the Import tab, hover over the thumnail #& a play/trim/import pop-up will show, so it would show in the preview window as in your pic if played, But the odd thing is - top right it says 8.00 mins, this is

Music Maker

6 answers, most recent on 8/10/2024

RE: [Solved] Question about commercial use and selling of music made with VST's

@AJenn Hi Please do not duplicate or bump posts, this is a user to user forum not Magix support and a response to your question will depend on when another users is online and can help. If you buy a commercial licence for every Soundpool you use one

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 3/24/2026

RE: proDAD VitaScene V5 PRO

@me_again Hi Andy . . . . . Frightening stuff. . . . . Magix magic??? I have a vague recollection that the appearance of Vitascene was not immediate in the Additional fades after installation, and it needed 'something', probably 'just playing within

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 2/3/2025

RE: Video ending is being clipped on rendering

@FF22 Hi. Now, might I ask: What might I have done to set that accidental range delimiter? It's not a 'delimiter', you can use the range for a couple of reasons, there's two [ ] buttons that set the Range, You can also left & right click where

ACID

No answers, created on 6/10/2026

MAGIX Acid + Amigo VST = MIDI not working

Hello, I recently bought the awesome Amigo VST (it's a sampler chopper that looks like it is from the Amiga days)https://potenzadsp.com/plugins/amigo/But I can't get it to work with Acid. It loads fine and when I use the in-app sample browser the

Samplitude

40 answers, most recent on 4/15/2025

RE: Real Time Varispeed Sound Quality in Samp & WhichSound Forge Version?

Okay, I loaded Samplitude ProX Suite and get the varispeed working. But when playing a WAV file no audio. I selected my laptop's RealTek audio (chip) and also hit Ctrl M , like it used to do in my 2008 version ProX Suite, which had the volume

Movie Studio

16 answers, most recent on 9/5/2025

Blu-ray media created playback issue. Image bounces/jitters

I made my first Blu-Ray disc with Video Deluxe 2025 Plus. It was an easy one from 3 mp4 videos with a resolution of 1920x1080p @ 25fps and I created a simple menu to browse through the three titles in the disc. I used H.264 codification and adapted

Photostory

9 answers, most recent on 2/3/2026

RE: Magix Travel Maps - OpenStreetMap issue

Yes I was wondering what was wrong I was linking it to my recent installation of Photostory 2026 but I know it was playing up before then. I have all the same issues as above but with mine it opens with Dresden near the centre and if i try to move