Activating the "Extra" (included) effects packages in Movie Studio 202

Clifford-Bowman wrote on 2/18/2026, 12:02 PM

I have tried contacting NewBlue, proDAD, and Magix for support (the latter cannot even create a support ticket - "The support request could not be saved.").

I bought Magix Movie Studio 2024 Suite on 29 December 2025. I have today (18th Feb 2026) attempted to install and activate:
NewBlue ColorFast 2
NewBlue Elements 3 Overlay

and

ProDAD VitaScene V5 Pro

from within Movie Studio.

After restarting Movie Studio having installed NewBlue ColorFast 2 I was met with a window telling me to connect to NewBlue. I attempted this, got an error message, logged in via a web browser and changed my password (to be sure) and tried to activate/register it again, to no effect. the same error kept showing.

Installing NewBlue Elements 3 Overlay has made that prompt go away, but has not activated either plugin.

I have emailed them for support, but have only received the standard auto-reply email telling me they are aware of my call, and that I am important to them. I attach the error as "20260218CannotWriteToAccount.png".

ProDAD have sent me a human response making it clear that I am not their customer and I am not important to them. Indeed, so incensed was the posted that they were unable to spell "proDAD" correctly.

I had reported my issue thus:

On trying to activate I am prompted for an activation code, but when I enter the code from Magix (in the format G3-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxGNJ) the window does not activate the activation button, leaving me somewhat stranded.

I have since found that there is a different key visible within Movie Studio, so I tried installing again and it failed due to already being installed. So I uninstalled it via Windows' Control Panel and then reloaded Movie Studio to try and install it again. Using the code from within Movie Studio I was seemingly able to activate the plugin... except that when I try to add VitaScene to my annual Christmas charity video it is apparently still not activated (see "proDAD (or porDAD) still needs activating.png")

Please help,

 

Cheers,

Cliff


PS apologies if I come across as frantic. This is my annual for charity video and I am running way behind as usual (this year's excuse being a death in the family, among other issues). For anyone who has helped me in previous years - my surgery has finally healed up so I struggle to blame it for any serious delays.

 

PC: Alienware Aurora R7
CPU: i7-800K @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 32 GB
OS: Video Pro X12 installed on Windows 10 Pro, 22H2, on Samsung SSD 980 (800+GB partition)
OS: Also available, Windows 11, on Samsung SM961 NVMe  SSD (240+ GB partition)
OS : For gaming, Windows 10 on an OCS-AGILITY3 SATA SSD (450GB partition)
Shared Data Storage: Local storage is on a Samsung SSD 870 EVO (3.5TB partition)
Partition sizes approximate.
Display adapters : Intel UHD Graphics on M/B, basically unused
Twin NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB RAM each, SLI linked for "Maximum 3D performance") ). Drivers up-to-date using GeForce Experience. No change except slowing down and more crashes from disabling SLI
Video ProX12 video modes:
Preview in arranger:
Standard mode (Direct3D, hardware acceleration) - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (changing this to Intel UHD causes majopr crashes)
or
Compatability mode (VideoForWindows))
Preview and playback on analog recording:
Standard Renderer
or
Alternate mode 2 (Video Mixing Renderer9)
Screen: 256 x 1080 @ 60Hz, RGB, SDR (LG)

 

 

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Clifford-Bowman wrote on 2/18/2026, 12:08 PM

Mental meltdown - it looks like I bought the "2025" version last Julty, so I'll see if upgrading to that will help.

 

Cheers,

 

Cliff

 

Edit for PS.

 

"Upgrading" to 2025 seems to have fixed my NewBlue woes. Howevere, proDAD seems to be anything but "Pro".

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PC: Alienware Aurora R7
CPU: i7-800K @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 32 GB
OS: Video Pro X12 installed on Windows 10 Pro, 22H2, on Samsung SSD 980 (800+GB partition)
OS: Also available, Windows 11, on Samsung SM961 NVMe  SSD (240+ GB partition)
OS : For gaming, Windows 10 on an OCS-AGILITY3 SATA SSD (450GB partition)
Shared Data Storage: Local storage is on a Samsung SSD 870 EVO (3.5TB partition)
Partition sizes approximate.
Display adapters : Intel UHD Graphics on M/B, basically unused
Twin NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB RAM each, SLI linked for "Maximum 3D performance") ). Drivers up-to-date using GeForce Experience. No change except slowing down and more crashes from disabling SLI
Video ProX12 video modes:
Preview in arranger:
Standard mode (Direct3D, hardware acceleration) - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (changing this to Intel UHD causes majopr crashes)
or
Compatability mode (VideoForWindows))
Preview and playback on analog recording:
Standard Renderer
or
Alternate mode 2 (Video Mixing Renderer9)
Screen: 256 x 1080 @ 60Hz, RGB, SDR (LG)