Yes, I was using Video Pro X2 with Windows 10 and in fact made some very nice videos with it. In fact, here's the link to the Pine Barons God Bless America video I made in June this year for July 4:

Like I said, when I started Video Pro X2 a few days ago it said version 2.5 was available and asked me to download and install it, which I did. Now it won't start at all. So are you telling me that Video Pro is discontinued? And I do have both Movie Edit Pro 2021 as well as Movie Edit Pro Premium 2021 (which I purchased this year only because of the added functions and was disappointed that the add ons mostly didn't work), but, as I said, I have used Video Pro X2 successfully for a number of projects for the last year.

This is very confusing. I would suspect that the one of the recent Windows 10 automatic updates may have caused problems with Video Pro X2, but, as I said, I also have Video Pro X1.3 on my computer...and that started and seems to work with the files (such as the one for the video I provide the link for above).

Does this mean that I need to abandon Video Edit Pro and just use Movie Edit Pro 2021?

Bob

@BSMan

I think there is some level of confusion here!

As @CubeAce (Ray) says, VPX 2 was released more than 10 years ago and is highly likely to NOT run under Windows 10.

I honestly can't remember there being a VPX 1.3, version 1 is at least one full year older than version 2.

So, I wonder if you actually have VPX 12 (aka VPX 2021) and VPX 13 (aka VPX 2022)? Can you check under Help>About and tell us the exact version and build numbers you actually have? The latest version of VPX 13 (released earlier today) is 19.0.1.107.

And no, you certainly should not need to abandon Video Pro X.

Jeff

@BSMan

Hi Bob.

I'm just amazed you got VPX 2 to work on a Windows 10 machine at all.

It is possible a Windows 10 update may have caused problems or it could have been the program update. Again I'm surprised you got a notification for an update.

The current version of VPX is now 13 but up till recently had quite a few bugs with VPX 12 being the most up to date stable version of it.

If you run Movie Edit Pro 2012 and it's stable then any version written for Windows 10 or 8.1 should work but increasingly changes are being made by Microsoft so it's hard to tell.

As I posted earlier, VPX 2 was written for Windows XP up to Vista, not Windows 8.1 and above. If your hardware was running it that would have been a bonus. It's possible the update changed some settings within VPX although your copy is earlier than anything I have used so don't know what that could be, or the program update included something that is now Window 10 incompatible. Too many variables to give you an accurate answer as to what went wrong.

Sorry.

Ray.

@BSMan

Version 2.5?

Jeff,

I looked at help for my VPX13 and found that the version is 19.0.1.98. (Yes, the title screen shows VPX13). No build was listed, although I looked at the help pretty thoroughly for it. When I started VPX13 it did let me know that an update to the version you mention was available, so I did not update before checking the current version I had. After getting that information I'm now doing the update as I write this.

I'm wondering why the numbering scheme was changed and there is/was a VPX2, yet the newer version was not numbered, say, VPX 3. Confusing, to say the least, although I realize that 13 is a higher number than 2. And I've now also removed VPX2 from my computer.

Also, I previously had Windows XP because there were too many reported problems with Vista and Windows 8. So when I updated I went directly to Windows 10.

Since Microsoft is about to release Windows 11 it would be appreciated if you would email registered users to let them know when it would be safe to upgrade to Windows 11 as far as avoiding any conflict with Magix software.

Did you and/or Ray get a chance to check out the video I provided a link to? Would appreciate any comments (both positive and negative and suggestions) you might have.

Bob

@BSMan

Hi Bob.

You would have only been offered VPX 13 if your previous version was VPX 12 so one bit of confusion cleared up.

VPX 13 is still quite buggy hence your possible problems. If you are still experiencing problems with your projects you should uninstall VPX 13 and go back to VPX 12 until all the major bugs are fixed. You should still be able to go back to the newer version at a later date.

This is mentioned in the 'Sticky' topics at the top of the forum page.

The topic in question can be found here.

You have a good group of fine vocalists 😀.

Ray.

@BSMan

Hi

. . . . I'm wondering why the numbering scheme was changed and there is/was a VPX2, yet the newer version was not numbered, say, VPX 3. Confusing, to say the least, although I realize that 13 is a higher number than 2. And I've now also removed VPX2 from my computer. . . . .

There is still some confusion here

There have been numbered versions of VPX for every year from 2 through to 13 - a new version every year.

Therefore as you say you have version 13 yet your previous version was 2 and are asking why the next version is not numbered 3 suggests, as @CubeAce has commented, that you were on version 12.

Given that you upgraded to Windows 10 from XP, what is your computer specification - see this topic for details required and please quote the processor and graphic card make/model in full.

John EB
Forum Moderator

I'm wondering about VPX13. Just tried using it and tried to export a file, but the actual export never started. The output window showing the progress never appeared. In checking the folder the new file was created in name only but with no contents. Tried the same thing with Magix Edit Pro Premium and the output file window appeared and showed progress (I didn't let it finish creating the output file, just wanted to see if the progress window would appear). Is this one of the bugs in VPX13? Maybe I should go back to VPX12?

Bob

@BSMan @johnebaker @emmrecs @browj2

Hi Bob.

Not necessarily.

You could have the program settings set up incorrectly. VPX 13 is different to VPX12 but I don't have a copy to show you and I don't know your computer components to tell you what should be showing up in the playback and export settings. Perhaps someone running VPX 13 can help with that.

Also on rare occasions it has been known for an information box such as the export progress box to appear behind the main program on the screen.

However, progress of the export can also be seen in the program icon in the Task bar of Windows if an export is occurring.

Ray.

@BSMan

Hi

To enable us to advise on the correct Display options for VPX13, and some of the export settings, we do need your computer specification as I asked for in my previous post.

John EB

John,

Here's the info:

Toshiba Satellite laptop S875

Core I7 processor 2.3 GHz 8Gig ram

Hard drive upgraded to 2TB SSD

Windows 10, 64 bit version, which is up to date

Built in display

Bob

@BSMan

Hi Bob.

Is it this Laptop?

Ray.

Hi Ray,

Yes, that's the laptop with the upgraded hard drive to a 2TB SSD as I mentioned.

Bob

@BSMan @johnebaker

Hi Bob.

I think maybe John EB may be able to help out with settings tomorrow as now the specs are tracked down but I'm not on VPX 13 yet to help you out and the set up is somewhat different to previous versions.

Ray.

John & Ray,

Is there a way for me to download VPX12 at this point? I just see VPX listed as my most recent version (with a date in 2020), but I suspect that if I download that I will end up with the same VPX13 that I have right now. I'm thinking that it would probably be good for me to have both VPX12 and VPX13 right now since I notice some less than favorable comments about VPX13 that it may have been released prematurely.

Bob

@BSMan

Hi Bob.

The download link for VPX 12 can be found in this topic thread.

I think you should read the topic first.

Ray.

@BSMan

Just to emphasise an important point from the thread that @CubeAce linked you to: in order to reinstall VPX 12 you must first uninstall VPX 13, you cannot have both on your computer simultaneously.

Jeff