(Magix Movie 17 Pro) Dark overlay on preview and rendered video??

mrmikemccall wrote on 6/5/2011, 7:19 AM

MMEP17 has started dimming the video brightness a lot on both the preview window and the final rendered project! By dimming I mean browns are now burned dark brown and shadows are black. All video prior to about a month ago look alright, and my Windows 7 is playing videos as usual.  :(

 

All video effects are at their defaults (50) and have not been touched since the program was installed.

 

- Mike

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john-auvil wrote on 6/6/2011, 9:15 AM

Has anything new been added to the system... even as insignificant as it might seem.

 

Do you have Movie Edit Pro 17 HD or Movie Edit Pro 17 HD Plus?

 

Is this with all video; meaning if you started a new project, does it affect the new added video or is this just from a previous project?

 

Do new videos appear darker when played outside of Movie Edit Pro?

 

Something had to have altered the program, it's not able to alter itself...  any updates, new hardware, anything...

mrmikemccall wrote on 6/6/2011, 12:31 PM

Pro HD

 

It affects every project new or loaded.

 

Videos saved appear darker when played outside of the editor, they look just as they do in the editor.

 

I only recall trying to install drivers for my lexmark printer. Before that there's some dosbox games, and I don't remember what else. My most recent installed file was drivers and capture software for Roxio Gamecap, but that was just last week and this happened before that.

 

I really can't say what I've installed since it began and I'm not about to roll back my hard drive for a color correction.

mrmikemccall wrote on 6/6/2011, 12:33 PM

And by videos saved I mean editited in the editor first. When I record them with Fraps they play normally.

john-auvil wrote on 6/7/2011, 10:14 AM

The only thing I can suggest is reinstalling the software.


I have been looking in the software for anything that might pertain to image control and I have not found anything. I have also not heard of this before.


I am not a technical support guy, but from what I have learned is that certain drivers and something call DLL protocols can be affected by other program that manipulate Windows files. I know that Magix uses Windows protocols where available through DirectX. If there was another program that altered the protocols in DirectX then this would of course affect the Magix software but not necessarily affect other software installed on the system as they may not use the Windows protocols... I hope that came out clear enough to understand.


Other things that you could have changed are things like the file type on the capture (ratio and resolution), using NTSC versus PAL, and so on.


Maybe it would be enough to reinstall or update the DirectX through the Microsoft page. If that doesn't help then I would assume it could be the things that were installed.
 

mrmikemccall wrote on 6/14/2011, 9:23 AM

Well I tried to reinstall the software and now the installer is broken and the software cannot be removed!

http://www.magix.info/us/cannot-uninstall-repair-movie-edit-pro-17.knowledge.492372.html