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Former user wrote on 1/31/2022, 7:51 PM

@philip-hunt Hi, yes it's a totally different program & should have a massive warning notice on the upgrade offer! you might get comments on here saying things about downloading the trial first, but who does that on an Upgrade, you just presume it's a modern version of the version you have, with some bug fixes & maybe some new features, but it's not 😒 Saying that it is a good program with very fast render speeds & good fast playback quality,

There's a post at the top of the forum page with video links that will help you get started https://www.magix.info/us/forum/movie-studio-18-support-videos-and-faqs--1278694/

PS there's a post on the Vegas forum about the change https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/information-movie-studio-2022-is-not-a-vegas-product--133018/

AAProds wrote on 1/31/2022, 9:40 PM

@philip-hunt

Phillip, I'll second the tutorials by JohnCB (browj2). They are an excellent introduction to Movie Studio 18 aka Movie Edit Pro. The other tutes for MEP are great too.

All my forum comments are based on or refer to my System 1.

My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.

System 1

Windows 11 v23H2 severely modified by Openshell and ExplorerPatcher

Power supply: 850W Cooler Master (should have got modular)

CPU: Intel i7 13700K running at 3400mhz, cooled by a Kraken 2x140mm All In One liquid cooler.

RAM: 64gb (2x32gb sticks) G.Skill "Ripjaws" DDR4 3200Mhz

GPU 1: iGPU UHD 770

GPU 2: NVidia RTX 3060Ti Windforce 8gb

C drive: NVME 500gb

Bluray Burner: Pioneer BDR-212D

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Magix Video Deluxe 2026 Ultimate (although it comes up as "Premium").

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 Home Version 2009

CPU: i5-750 at 2670mhz with 12gb RAM

Onboard IEEE1394 (Firewire) port

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4770 (512mb) which is ignored by MEP

Hard drives: C Drive 256gb SSD, various other HDDs.

Monitor: Dell 22"/56cm, 1680x1050, 35 pixels/cm

Movie Studio 2023

Movie Studio 2024

VPX 12

philip-hunt wrote on 1/31/2022, 11:24 PM

Version 18 won't install properly on my DELL XPS13 laptop. Tried twice. It won't show the navigation panel which is pretty much essential. Switched to my PC after posting the above. Both computers running Windows 11. Works fine. Not sure I want to learn a new UI. 17 will do me for now, I reckon.

johnebaker wrote on 2/1/2022, 4:30 AM

@philip-hunt

Hi

. . . .  DELL XPS13 laptop . . .

What is the specification of this laptop, there are 17 different models of XPS 13 available with 3 different screens resolutions - see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and graphics card make/model in full and the screen resolution.

I would suggest you put this information in your profile signature so we do not have to keep asking for it.

Are the graphics card drivers up to date?

A screen shot of the Program settings, Device options tab, may help.

John EB
Forum Moderator

VPX 16, Movie Studio 2025, and earlier versions 2015 and 2016, Music Maker Premium 2024.

PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 24H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

Sony FDR-AX53e Video camera, DJI Osmo Action 3 and Sony HDR-AS30V Sports cams.