Movie Information puzzle

terrypin wrote on 9/3/2019, 5:31 AM

As you see, the handy Movie Information window (accessed with 'E' from MEP) correctly reports that this movie contains 31 objects. And the 11 title objects are listed. But oddly only five of its 20 image objects are shown.

Having accidentally noticed that aberration, I checked a couple of other projects (it's tedious) and they were OK. So I wonder if it's a symptom of some project file corruption?

This is also the first time I've noticed that some path names shown (the title objects in this example) don't exist on my PC. Are they some sort of 'virtual' path from the original Magix development environment?

This is with my relatively ancient MEPP 2017 16.0.4.124, and also with MEPP 2016. I'm curious to know if anyone has seen similar occasional behaviour in later versions please?

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shgrude wrote on 9/3/2019, 6:28 AM

@terrypin

Not been able to check, but from your screenshot it looks like you have 5 images repeated 4 times on the timeline.
The listed files will only list unique files. If you have one file containing ie 1 hour movie and you have 6 sequences from the same file, it will only list the file once. The list will provide you with a complete list of files you need to keep in order to be able to recreate the project. All files listed must be backed up or copied to a backup location (not only the project file) if you want to restore the project with the underlying source files (as I guess you already would know).

Regarding the title objects, they strangely enough all refers to same file/object, so that actually contradict my point above. However I guess the listing is missing some kind of details.
Have you tried loading any of the title files into ie NOTEPAD?

You can run the command (copy entire line below and paste in "Run" window):
%windir%\system32\notepad.exe d:\magix-test\__start_videodelux4\titles\title.tfx
(I have used two underscores before start, it may be three and two between start and videodelux4?)

johnebaker wrote on 9/3/2019, 7:57 AM

@terrypin

Hi Terry

MEP 2020 is displaying the count and file list correctly - tested on my current project, 147 objects stated, list and actual timeline agree on objects used - 1 title, referencing the mysterious d: drive, 37 video clips and 89 images.

HTH

John EB

terrypin wrote on 9/3/2019, 12:29 PM

Thanks both, appreciate your testing.

On the numbers discrepancy, I'm embarrassed to say that I'd overlooked I had used duplicate images for that testing! Thanks @shgrude

The title paths remain a mystery. They are all using the same default MEP title file, so I'd have expected the path to be:
C:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Movie Edit Pro Premium\2017\Titles\Standard\title.tfx

In text editors it looks like this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i0hxrc1wr4rmwrz/title.tfx.txt?raw=1

... in which you can see the Magix path used.