• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

  [Solved] Portrait oriented footage stretched.
  Can anyone help me with this issue and suggest a solution? I recently bought the Osmo Pocket 3 video camera, and I'm encountering a problem when importing portrait-oriented footage into Magix Movie Studio. The footage appears stretched horizontally,
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

  RE: Portrait oriented footage stretched.
  @Mauricio-flores Magix doesn't recognise 9:16 portrait clips when dragged in, ie the project stays at 16:9 landscape when media is added. The fact your video is being stretched says that your project is 16:9 landscape which doesn't match you
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 2/12/2025

  RE: Title templates
  @Gid Hi Gid. If the program doesn't detect resolution, then why it doesn't place a landscape image across the blank space either side of a portrait image but places it inside leaving the top and bottom of a portrait setting blank if you don't accept
• Photostory

  One answer, on 4/23/2026

  RE: Loss of orientation in Slideshow Maker 2
  @Peter-Widt Hi The issue you are having would suggest the images are from a mobile phone and were taken in different orientations, ie some are vertical (portrait) and others horizontal (landscape), or if from 2 different devices, one of is a mobile
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 10/10/2024

  RE: [Solved] YouTube Shorts Help
  @DarkWestern Magix is great for making YT Shorts! There are Movie Settings presets for "Social Media", being square and 9:16 (ie portrait video). It's a tradeoff between filling the phone screen or not zooming in as much using a square, or even 4:3,
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

  RE: Portrait oriented footage stretched.
  @Mauricio-flores Hi . . . .  importing portrait-oriented footage into Magix Movie Studio. The footage appears stretched horizontally, . . . . This is a common issue with several video editors, particulalrly when you are importing portrait vide into
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/16/2024

  RE: Edit pro 17 rotation/mirror effect
  @AAProds Hi, I agree with @AAProds in that some files need converting first before importing into the editor, this isn't unusual esp with phone footage but as mentioned there's other things to take into consideration, iPhones are auto set to record
• Movie Studio

  17 answers, most recent on 7/17/2024

  Drop shadow on Portrait clip.?
  Hi, either I've forgotten how to use this or ........... I've already done this in Vegas but it took 20mins to render this 13min clip & I know MMS is sometimes faster because I do still use it occasionally for simple 1 track projects or
• Photo & Graphic Designer

  One answer, on 2/14/2025

  RE: How to crop the travel map
  @arnenu2 Hi, I see that no one has replied. Is your project landscape as shown? Or are you trying to do a project in portrait mode? In landscape mode, to remove the blue bars, go to fx View & Animation, Section and crop the image. See this
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/16/2024

  Edit pro 17 rotation/mirror effect
  When I import portrait video from my iPhone it goes on its side. I have tried using the rotation/mirror effect I can set it upright. However when closing and reopening the program it reverts on to its side, not saving the effect. Am I doing
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 2/12/2025

  RE: Title templates
  @Gid, @CubeAce Hi Gid, Ray . . . . a 9:16 video being imported into 16:9 project & MMS then asking to change the resolution?, It doesn't. . . . . I can confirm that you get no message asking to change the movie setting resolution and AR when
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 3/11/2024

  RE: Video Pro X 14 - How to convert a 9:16 video to 16:9
  My problem is the former, I shot the video in portrait mode instead of landscape. Will check your link. Thanks!
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 11/16/2024

  RE: Edit pro 17 rotation/mirror effect
  @alflill Are you able to put an example video up on Google Drive or another sharing site so we can try? I have a few iphone files here but they import correctly ie upright/portrait, and after I rotate them to Landscape they stay that way after a
• Video Pro X

  58 answers, most recent on 9/12/2024

  RE: [Closed] VPX/MMS update schedule
    As for BorisFX Continuum Complete 2024.5 OFX plugins and VPX, since you have them installed (demo mode), I'd like to see BCC+Film Stocks accessed via the FX Editor. You should see this below. For me it's also the Pixelchooser / Mocha masking,
• Movie Studio

  6 answers, most recent on 4/25/2025

  RE: Portrait oriented footage stretched.
  @Mauricio-flores Yep, some media isn't recognised correctly, If you press the E key on the keyboard or go to File-Settings-Movie you can choose the correct option from the drop-down menus or type in the correct aspect ratio FHD 1080x1920 or UHD
• Video Pro X

  6 answers, most recent on 3/11/2024

  RE: Video Pro X 14 - How to convert a 9:16 video to 16:9
  @kenrocks Hi On the few occassions I have to display portrait in a landscape project, I use either: One of the progams presets in Templates, Design Elements, Image border effects basic, however many have animation backgrounds which I do not
• Movie Studio

  7 answers, most recent on 11/11/2023

  [Solved] Mediapool imports my landscape photos distorted
  Movie Studio 2024 Platinum has a Mediapool you have to use to import photos to a project. When I locate the photos there that I want to use in my video, the landscape photos appear rotated into portrait and distorted, thus unusable. I tried adding
• Movie Studio

  9 answers, most recent on 3/28/2024

  RE: this may be a silly question but i need to ask it
  folks, i have now had a go with all suggestions this is a fab learning experience for me i am just about to start the new project at weekend with portrait footage (silly me) thanks for preparing me and giving me options   Brian
• Movie Studio

  11 answers, most recent on 2/12/2025

  RE: Title templates
  @Gid Hi Gid. All programs have default settings upon opening and for MMS and VPX that appears to be the traditional landscape orientation. If you don't tick the 'use settings as presets for new movies' in the Movie Project settings section, then you
• Video Pro X

  25 answers, most recent on 8/10/2024

  RE: No Hardware Encoding 9:16 ONLY!
  @AAProds @Pawel-Rybinski @johnebaker @Liam-Roberts Hi Al. No problems at all using your correct file type. It would seem that the practice that I have seen in places like YouTube shorts that seem to be made using my original method is the cause, so
• Video Pro X

  25 answers, most recent on 8/10/2024

  RE: No Hardware Encoding 9:16 ONLY!
  @johnebaker @Liam-Roberts @AAProds I can confirm the findings of @Pawel-Rybinski for MPEP4 rendering at least using VPX 14 on Win 10. Haven't tried other wrappers or codecs yet. Something is going screwy with portrait exports when using the social
• Movie Studio

  10 answers, most recent on 10/1/2024

  RE: Customised Export but still black bars at top and bottom
  @me_again @Xenofex2 @AAProds Hi Andy. for some reason MS won't adjust after editing. That's because the program has no idea of the intended use for the exported video. In the movie settings you have told the program the final ratio to render the
• Video Pro X

  25 answers, most recent on 8/10/2024

  RE: No Hardware Encoding 9:16 ONLY!
   Hi Al. No problems at all using your correct file type. It would seem that the practice that I have seen in places like YouTube shorts that seem to be made using my original method is the cause, so try that for yourself Al to see the problem as it
• Video Pro X

  165 answers, most recent on 4/10/2025

  RE: [Closed] Website Observation
  @Gid Hi, I was going to mention that as you had brought it up. As far as I know, the programs are supposed to detect the format of the first video clip and propose a change to the project settings. For the AR, that doesn't work. I think that we