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emmrecs wrote on 5/3/2022, 1:33 PM

@Joe-Ruffatto

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

First, there is no such product as magix photoshop! Photoshop is an Adobe product.

You've posted to the Movie Studio area of the forum but I wonder whether you are actually asking about Magix Photostory, since you want to combine pictures and videos into one slide show?

The answer to your question is that either Movie Studio or Photostory will allow you to do exactly what you are asking about. Photostory is very much a cut-down version of Movie Studio (formerly known as Movie Edit Pro) but unless you need its quite sophisticated editing and exporting features, and if your intended output is to a slideshow, PS is more than capable for you.

HTH

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Win 11 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 14700, 32 GB RAM, NVidia RTX 4060 and Intel UHD770 Graphics, Audient EVO 16 audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, Vegas Pro, PhotoStory Deluxe, Xara 3D Maker 7, Samplitude Pro X7 Suite, Reaper, Adobe Audition CC, 2 x Canon HG10 cameras, 1 x Canon EOS 600D, Akaso EK7000 Pro Action Cam

johnebaker wrote on 5/3/2022, 1:49 PM

@Joe-Ruffatto

Hi

In addition to @emmrecs comment, it would also help us to advise you more fully if we have more information:

  1. Computer specification, see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and graphics card make/model in full, and also what monitor/screen resolution(s) your are working with. 

    I would suggest you put this information in your profile signature so we do not have to keep asking for it.
     
  2. Are the graphics card drivers up to date?
     
  3. The resolution and format of video files you are wanting to use - a MediaInfo analysis of one of these would help - download and install MediaInfo and analyse one of the clips and post the results, see this tutorial on how to setup MediaInfo and analyse a video clip for all the data required.     

John EB
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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.

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AAProds wrote on 5/4/2022, 1:05 AM

@Joe-Ruffatto

Joe, I don't have any experience with Photostory, but Magix Movie Studio is a very capable slideshow creator and you can indeed combine pictures and videos easily. I use it a lot for this. However, there is a major bug in the primary cropping feature (the "Section" effect); it is basically dysfunctional. At this point in time I would advise against Magix Movie Studio for this purpose.

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

Movie Studio 2025

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