Drag to increase imported video file

Mark-Woodson wrote on 12/23/2024, 4:03 PM

Up until now I have been using Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 15.0 and have LOVED its simplicity but felt it was time for an update so I puchased Magix Studio 2025 Platinum Version 24.0.1.221 (UDP3) and so far I truly hate it.

Among other things, I make simple music videos with the lyrics as text on the screen and a licence # on the bottom of the screen.

To accomplish this in Vegas all I had to do was import a video file as the background to the music.
Then I simply dragged the end of the video file to match the length of the music file.

Walla done!

Now, unless I am missing something, it appears I have to loop the video over and over and over manually which is bad enough, but then if the music ends BEFORE the end of the last video loop I have no idea how to shorten it.

You cannot drag the end of the video to the left to simply shorten it which I find amazing. Also, I cannot simply use my mouse to highlight the extra portion of the video and simply click delete that extra part to shorten it either as I could in Vegas.

This literally should be insanely simple and yet I cannot figure it out and I've had zero success Googling it.

Can anyone help me here?

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Gid wrote on 12/23/2024, 4:18 PM

@Mark-Woodson Hi, you should be able to drag the end of a video to shorten it, keyboard Z trims the start of a clip, T cuts the clip & U trims the end of the clip, There's a button at the top of the timeline.

..... but felt it was time for an update

You haven't updated, you've bought a completely different program, have a look at my comment in this post -

https://www.magix.info/us/forum/where-d-the-track-options-go--1342723/

AAProds wrote on 12/23/2024, 6:58 PM

@Mark-Woodson

You cannot drag the end of the video to the left to simply shorten it which I find amazing.

Yes you can: click on the video object, drag the end (either end, as desired) using the bottom corner handles.

Now, unless I am missing something, it appears I have to loop the video over and over and over manually which is bad enough,

Sounds like your video is shorter than the audio.

if the music ends BEFORE the end of the last video loop I have no idea how to shorten it.

As I described above. Simply drag either end to the length you want. Fade handles are at the top of each end. If you can't see the handles in the corners, zoom in a bit.