• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  18 answers, most recent on 9/9/2022

  RE: No Composite or S Video Connection on my Pc / Graphics Card
  @NickDerrickson The Scart output, not input on your VHS player is the "composite" one, i.e., the one you need to use. If you have a Scart plug which can be switched between "Input" and "Output" it is the latter you need to select. You need to ensure
• Video Pro X

  148 answers, most recent on 4/18/2023

  RE: General discussion on add-ons
  @Reyfox Hi, Thanks for the video about Normalizing in Vegas. It proves my point - in Vegas it's a Switch and you don't know by how much the gain was adjusted. In VPX/MMS, you do. However, in VPX, you cannot adjust the ceiling which is a
• Video Pro X

  46 answers, most recent on 5/14/2025

  RE: VPX16 plays Sony XAVC with no sound
  @Can-Dive , @AAProds I hope this is the right list. Audio:   0x0000    unknown    -0x0001    PCM    Microsoft0x0002    ADPCM    Microsoft0x0003    IEEE FLOAT    Microsoft IEEE7540x0004    VSELP    Compaq Computer Corp.0x0005    IBM CVSD    IBM
• Video Pro X

  46 answers, most recent on 12/8/2022

  RE: HEVC compression artifacts
  @nicolesharp100 Hi Nicole. Anything to do with digital is basically black or white. Ones and zeros. Smoothness is an illusion of enough bits reduced to the point the eye can't differentiate. If you are seeing differences between an AVC file and an
• Music Maker

  7 answers, most recent on 12/5/2022

  RE: Music Maker update 31.0.2.21
  Here's some bugs I've encountered while fighting (yes! I'm frustrated:) with Music Maker. I hope there would be some fixes at some point. Below the bugs are some of my suggestions which no one asked to possibly make the software better. - MMM
• Video Pro X

  41 answers, most recent on 10/16/2022

  RE: Cant edit 4k videos nicely.
  @macarrao Hi. Thanks for the file data. As partially suspected, it is an HEVC file with variable frame rate. These can cause problems because Video editors at present deal with constant frame rate exporting. This means that when the frame rate
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @CubeAce I've just noticed that the video capture file used is indeed MP4 when I'm capturing from VHS using a composite input. When I'm capturing from a Hi8 tape using an S-Video input, the capture file is MXV and there is no crosshatching in the
• Movie Studio

  8 answers, most recent on 7/31/2022

  RE: how to curve a track line when fading
  @browj2 Yes, on the crossfade transitions when the two curves make a low point in the middle like a U the track below will show, if no track it'll almost appear as fade through black, if there is a track/object below that will show, yep the curve
• Movie Studio

  19 answers, most recent on 10/10/2022

  RE: No Video preview when transferring VHS tape to windows harddrive
  @Moose The dark and mysterious world of analogue video capture beckons! Analogue capture is a non-binary thing: it depends entirely on the time, effort and money you want to throw at it. There are the perfectionists and then there are the rest of
• Other products

  One answer, on 8/1/2022

  RE: Pad sound libraries for Independence 32-bit?
  @Christopher-Burke The best new age pads samples are probably in Nada https://www.bestservice.com/nada.html This product also uses a special version of Independence called "Engine 2" as a player. There is a free version available here
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  VHS capture quality is very poor
  VHS capture quality is very poor: There are bands of colour flicker or interference in the videos that come and go. Please find link to sample video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wo67UXo-zJ24ssrjcL3MlzSHOU4IxyJP/view?usp=sharing I use USB
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon The dreaded VHS capture. 😂 A few comments: - The colour flicker, interference and wavy edges at the top are classic symptoms of a lack of some sort of Time Base Correction. TBCs steady the video signal with a new timebase and will fix
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  16 answers, most recent on 3/15/2023

  captured video very poor quality while playback on TV is perfect
  I live in the US and I am trying to digitize some old German family VHS Tapes with "Rescue your ... ". I am using the latest version of the SW and AD Converter, just bought it. Tapes are in PAL B recorded with German VHS Camera, VCR is also a German
• MAGIX

  No answers, created on 7/13/2022

  [Closed] MUSIC MAKER 2023 - MAKE THE MUSIC YOU LOVE
  Dear Community, we are happy to announce that our legendary software comes with a new update! MUSIC MAKER 2023 is now available! It's more powerful, more versatile and more fun! With our new features you can now produce great songs even easier and
• Rescue Your Videotapes!

  33 answers, most recent on 7/28/2022

  RE: VHS capture quality is very poor
  @cmclernon My VCR does not have an S-Video output socket. I just used a SCART adapter with an S-Video output cable attached, Would an RCA - S-Video cable help? I don't think a Composite to S-video cable will work because the luma
• Video Pro X

  26 answers, most recent on 7/26/2022

  RE: VPX vs Vegas
  @1940 @CubeAce Hi, i didn't get a notification of this, basically Vegas will do more than VPX, you have more control over the finer points, the Boris third party plugins i have partly work in MEP (I don't have VPX) but work fully in Vegas, there's
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 7/3/2022

  RE: MEP2016 Plus 'Download Components'
  Hi There John CB - Thanx for the tutorial - "u can limit the fades & make the titles" Yes fer sure ... I've worked with FCP since 2007 and of course MEP for as long. Most of my work is 'editing' (not so much DVD creation), just wanted to make
• Video Pro X

  26 answers, most recent on 7/26/2022

  RE: VPX vs Vegas
  @1940 Hi Oz, I don't have a lot of time, but... There is no such thing as "Pro" software or a "Pro" video editing program. A program cannot be professional. I am a Professional Engineer; the software that I use is not the professional, I am. Here is
• ACID

  10 answers, most recent on 6/23/2022

  RE: ACID 10.5 to 11 free upgrade grace period?
  Just to add to Evelyn-Flowers's post, I had Acid v.4, mainly drawn to it because of Soundforge which was great for messing up in-the-field recordings. I left Acid at 4 and only just came back to Acid last month, because Magix seemed to be working
• Video Pro X

  18 answers, most recent on 6/12/2022

  RE: Blend Modes in VPX?
  @CubeAce Hi forgive me if you know this but blend/composite modes are similar to masks but also a bit different,   @johnebaker You're the first one to mention Chromakey & i've already pretty much said - Blending modes take each corresponding
• Video Pro X

  18 answers, most recent on 6/12/2022

  RE: Blend Modes in VPX?
  @Scott-Maas Hi. . . .  It isn't any difference to the blending modes in Photoshop . . . . Blending and Chromakey are two very different effects. Blending modes take each corresponding pixel Hue (colour) and/or Luminance (Brightness) and/or
• Video Pro X

  18 answers, most recent on 6/12/2022

  RE: Blend Modes in VPX?
  @CubeAce Hi, bit hard to select an option but i'll see what I can do, a lot of Boris effects seem to have Screen as their default blend option, most are like you say like a mask, they remove/add white or black in different levels, but some composite
• Video Pro X

  18 answers, most recent on 6/12/2022

  RE: Blend Modes in VPX?
  @CubeAce Hi forgive me if you know this but blend/composite modes are similar to masks but also a bit different, B/W masks work with maths, black = 0 & white = 1, so if you put a Black on top of a colour its 0 x the colour no' = 0 & so you
• Movie Studio

  15 answers, most recent on 8/10/2022

  RE: I currently Have ver 16 of movie studio would like to get the 2022 ver
  @Bill-the-repair-guy Hi, As has been indicated, Magix Movie Studio (MMS) is not at all the same programs as Vegas Movie Studio (VMS). I suggest that you download the trial of Magix Movie Studio Platinum or Suite (same program) and try it out. MMS is