• Movie Studio

  35 answers, most recent on 12/12/2019

  RE: Possible Bug During Save Project
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, I trust that you kept your pocketbook firmly attached, what with the Artful Dodger an' that. Last Saturday night with friends, we had planned on each reading a favourite poem or a bit of prose. Since you had mentioned Dickens and
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 11/29/2019

  RE: Ethical or legal dilemas of use of MEP with T&Cs.
  Thank you John. So the first hurdle (for the want of a better term) is the word 'commercial' which would mean no moneymaking from the finished video or forward selling. No income from a YouTube video or similar for example if containing anything you
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 11/29/2019

  Ethical or legal dilemas of use of MEP with T&Cs.
  My query concerns the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement. In particular these sections. 5.2 Contents a) In principle, the Contents - with the exception of Live Sets - may only be used for non-commercial purposes. This also
• SOUND FORGE

  10 answers, most recent on 1/3/2020

  RE: Is freedb not available?
  I also use MP3Tag, but mainly album art and some info edit. The CD info is not too good in my view. Today I tested NCH Express Rip. It works very well and you can customize how the file will be identified. I ripped the CDs then imported the files
• Movie Studio

  195 answers, most recent on 2/12/2026

  RE: Any problems to expect if upgrading CPU/MB/ and operating system?
  Exporting is becoming more or a dark art than I first suspected. Using the standard MPEG-4 codec in MEP and and using software encoding only I tried a different project that was five minutes 43 seconds and forty one frames at 50fps. Consisting of a
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 10/4/2019

  Menu Buttons
  How can I change the active color of a menu button? Mine is turning black, very ugly. How do you change the behavior to the 'active' or 'hover-over' color to green or red or blue, something nice? Can one make the button invisible when it is not
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 9/13/2019

  RE: Exporting Movie To AVI - Advise Please
  @Whalebat There are a lot of requests about how to export at best quality and which codec or bitrate is better but there is no specific answer. All we can say is there will be some quality loss regardless although whether it is visible on playback
• Web Designer

  2 answers, most recent on 7/24/2019

  Database
  Hello, I want to publish a site for arts, with plenty of addresses and similar film's names. Is there any way I could use the Microsoft Access or Excel to create a database, instead of repeating the same details over and over again? If not, what
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 6/14/2019

  RE: Should ambient sounds be centred?
  There are many variations to ambient sound. Typically you would record a general non specific ambience of the area you are in as an overall background, usually in stereo to give space. You could then record sounds that are specific to the shot in
• Movie Studio

  12 answers, most recent on 6/14/2019

  RE: Should ambient sounds be centred?
  There are many variations to ambient sound. Typically you would record a general non specific ambience of the area you are in as an overall background, usually in stereo to give space. You could then record sounds that are specific to the shot in
• Movie Studio

  49 answers, most recent on 5/28/2019

  RE: How to create distance in audio?
  @FelixDunn Hi Felix. So at what level are these productions? Home / one person with friends helping out for fun? College / school / similar production for exam grades? Struggling start-up production company hoping to produce broadcast standard
• Movie Studio

  49 answers, most recent on 5/28/2019

  RE: How to create distance in audio?
  @FelixDunn Hi Felix. There is no ultimate best way. Try both and see which works best within that mix. A lot will depend on how the ambient acoustics of the track you wish to place into the soundscape blends with the ambience of the track it's
• Movie Studio

  49 answers, most recent on 5/28/2019

  RE: How to create distance in audio?
  @FelixDunn Hi Felix. There is no ultimate best way. Try both and see which works best within that mix. A lot will depend on how the ambient acoustics of the track you wish to place into the soundscape blends with the ambience of the track it's
• Audio Cleaning Lab

  5 answers, most recent on 5/28/2019

  RE: What sampling frequencies & bit depths are supported in new version?
  @steveunkles @steveunkles Hi Steve, Definitely try it out first. My 30 day trial has come and gone. I'm still debating on whether or not to upgrade. I have the same version of AML Premium as you, I believe: 22.2.0.53. Here is the list of
• Video Pro X

  One answer, on 3/13/2019

  NVidia 960M
  Hello I'm looking at a used Asus laptop that has an Nvidia 960M video card in it. I realize it's not up to the current state of the art (by a long shot) but I'm trying to find out if VProX will use hardware acceleration with it. If so, I'd consider
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 3/9/2019

  RE: Automatically adjust all clips' volume to the same perceived level
  Hi, Ditto what Jeff and CubeAce said. Audio, like video, is a science, but adjusting it is a black art. There is no automatic adjustment that will do it right. I am definitely not an expert on this, so the others may jump in here. I use VPX, so in
• Movie Studio

  4 answers, most recent on 2/27/2019

  RE: Uncompressed video file size
  @Richard-hardy All I can say is good luck with that.😃 My son, who designs mainframe computers for a living and is also a fully qualified Microsoft engineer and a keen videographer, doesn't even understand the compression codecs involved. We are all
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 2/19/2019

  RE: Can people please list their useful third party effects here?
  @browj2 Thank you so much for all those links, they are very much appreciated. I will be looking over those again and again I suspect and take weeks if not months to absorb them. I've calibrated both my monitors for stills work and not sure if I'll
• Movie Studio

  21 answers, most recent on 2/19/2019

  RE: Can people please list their useful third party effects here?
  @CubeAce Hi Ray, Colour Grading - is a black art, mastered by BlackMagix (Resolve). Here is a link to a tutorial that I am wading through: You have MEPP, I believe. In VPX, we have instruments that help, however, figuring out what you are looking
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 7/2/2019

  RE: MEP Patch Update to version 18.0.2.233
  Below is the updated list from patch 209 for 233. If anyone has noticed any new bugs, please post them. I have not gone through all of the posts. 1. Startup screen - Mostly resolved - but the proposed project is not the last one saved, so there is
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 1/28/2019

  RE: Audio Spectrum in a video
  Hi Francis, Converting the audio file to a video of its waveform is the challenging part, not possible in MEPP itself I believe. I played around for a while with a complex method using ffmpeg. I did eventually succeed but can't recommend it, so
• Movie Studio

  3 answers, most recent on 12/22/2018

  RE: exporting issue fro magix movie edit pro 2015
  The version is 14.0.0.160. The format is in mov. Under effects, there is art filter, in art filter there is an option called move and colorize. I found out exactly what wrong effects were added when my video exported. And it is colorize at 16, and
• Video Pro X

  7 answers, most recent on 12/10/2018

  RE: Mixing audio for YouTube, DVD and MP4 File Playback
  @discburn Every 3dB you reduce, you are halving your volume. A reduction of just -1dBm should be sufficient to stop clipping. Using some sort of hard limiter will stop the volume from reaching that, but audio mixing is an art in itself and relies on
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 10/21/2018

  RE: How to adjust the Graphic Equaliser
  I would say it depends on what you are altering. A voice may need a different amount of attenuation or boost at different frequencies to say that of a high hat. Do you want a natural sound or make it sound like it's coming through a mobile device?