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CubeAce wrote on 8/29/2022, 7:31 AM

@MAGIX_Redaktion

Hi.

One question please.

Do I have to have a 10th generation Intel CPU or higher to take advantage of the new stability improvements or improvements in either playback smoothness or improved export performance. Without a motherboard supporting Resizable Bar are there any performance improvements to be had over using MMS 2022?

Ray.

 

Windows 10 Enterprise. Version 22H2 OS build 19045.5011

Direct X 12.1 latest hardware updates for Western Digital hard drives.

Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming motherboard Rev 1.xx with Supreme FX inboard audio using the S1220A code. Driver No 6.0.8960.1 Bios version 1401

Intel i9900K Coffee Lake 3.6 to 5.1GHz CPU with Intel UHD 630 Graphics .Driver version Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2130 for 7th-10th Gen Intel® with 64GB of 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 ram.

1000 watt EVGA modular power supply.

1 x 250GB Evo 970 NVMe: drive for C: drive backup 1 x 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive for Operating System / Programs only. 1X WD BLACK 1TB internal SATA 7,200rpm hard drives.1 for internal projects, 1 for Library clips/sounds/music/stills./backup of working projects. 1x500GB SSD current project only drive, 2x WD RED 2TB drives for latest footage storage. Total 21TB of 8 external WD drives for backup.

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB. nVidia Studio driver version 560.81 - 3584xCUDA cores Direct X 12.1. Memory interface 192bit Memory bandwidth 360.05GB/s 12GB of dedicated GDDR6 video memory, shared system memory 16307MB PCi Express x8 Gen3. Two Samsung 27" LED SA350 monitors with 5000000:1 contrast ratios at 60Hz.

Running MMS 2024 Suite v 23.0.1.182 (UDP3) and VPX 14 - v20.0.3.180 (UDP3)

M Audio Axiom AIR Mini MIDI keyboard Ver 5.10.0.3507

VXP 14, MMS 2024 Suite, Vegas Studio 16, Vegas Pro 18, Cubase 4. CS6, NX Studio, Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio. Mixcraft Pro 10 Studio.

Audio System 5 x matched bi-wired 150 watt Tannoy Reveal speakers plus one Tannoy 15" 250 watt sub with 5.1 class A amplifier. Tuned to room with Tannoy audio application.

Ram Acoustic Studio speakers amplified by NAD amplifier.

Rogers LS7 speakers run from Cambridge Audio P50 amplifier

Schrodinger's Backup. "The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted."

AAProds wrote on 8/29/2022, 11:44 PM

@MAGIX_Redaktion

Trying to get the Trial version. On this page:

https://www.magix.com/gb/video-editing/movie-studio/

When I click on the Trial button, it takes me to the bottom of the webpage where I can't find a Trial option.

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

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

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

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

me_again wrote on 8/30/2022, 12:56 AM

@MAGIX_Redaktion

@AAProds says

When I click on the Trial button, it takes me to the bottom of the webpage where I can't find a Trial option.

Neither can I - AndyW

"Just when I think I've learned the workrounds of MEP/MS the bounders go and update it"

Aorus Z690 Elite DDR4 Motherboard

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K, 3600 Mhz, 12 Core(s) 20 Logical Processor(s)

64gb (4x16gb sticks) DDR4 3200Mhz

Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Eagle OC 8Gb DDR6 DLSS3 Windforce

Corsair RM750 PSU, be quiet! Pure Rock 2 cooling

System drive 500Gb 4.0NVMe M,2 SSD, dedicated video/audio drive 2Tb Gen 4 NVMe SSD, 2x 500Gb Local Fixed Disks (Music etc), USB3 expansion drive 5Tb and 2Tb

Audio Onboard ALC1220 Amp-Up, Windows 11 Home updated as and when

Movie Studio 2025 Suite, Photo Manager Deluxe 13

All Drivers updated as they become available.

AAProds wrote on 8/30/2022, 8:04 AM

@me_again

A workaround: at the bottom of that page, click on any of the links to a feature/tip and a Trial Download button will become visible.

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

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

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

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

Michael-Dean wrote on 8/30/2022, 9:05 AM

I have installed Movie Studio 2022 successfully except for the 2 NewBlue Essentials 5 Ultimate and NewBlue Stylisers 5 Ultimate effects. I start the program; it tells me that these are ready for download (individually), which I do and it then installs then successfully (?). I restart the program each time, but the download invitation has not disappeared in either case. Have I missed a step somewhere (it does not ask for any codes during the process). Any help appreciated. Thank uou.

 

Gajendra-Ratnam wrote on 9/2/2022, 7:06 PM

Unable to install Movie Studio 2023 Upgrade, getting error

An Internal error occured (E--4). Please try again later.

JCI-21 wrote on 9/3/2022, 10:00 AM

Make no sense I want to try the MS2023 trial to see if the new version solved some of the issues I have with MEP 2022 and it says is going to delete the 2022, I don want to go to the trouble of installing the 2022 all over again if the 2023 don't reach my expectation, why don't you comeback to the old days when one could have two deferent version installed at the same time?

Window 10 Pro 64 bit Desktop Version 22H2 OS build 19045.3324

Processor    AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics 3.90 GHz

Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    64.0 GB

Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6

Ssd 1tb Kingston Kc3000 Gamer M.2 Nvme Pcie 4.0

Onboard sound Realtek
 

Jack-Jones1597 wrote on 9/4/2022, 2:42 PM

I am making a comment here because I am unable to find the technical support email form to enquire about this issue. I am running Windows 11 PRO. Just upgraded to MS 2023 Suite. During the upgrade process, it did not remove any files on MS 2022 Platinum files that I was running previously. So I did a uninstall of MS 2022. But what is strange is that where the software stores its video content, there are 3 folders that contain almost the same content and each takes over 8 gigs storage. Here is where it is stored: C:/Users/Public/Public Documents/Magix/Common/Videocontent. The three folders are:

Movie Edit Pro Premium

Movie Studio Platinum VD

Movie Studio Suite

They all have the same Modification Date. Does anyone know what folder MS 2023 uses as I would like to remove folders not being used by MS 2023 because they take a lot of storage space. One would think it is the Movie Studio Suite but the files in all of them look almost the same. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

JCI-21 wrote on 9/5/2022, 11:04 AM

I am making a comment here because I am unable to find the technical support email form to enquire about this issue. I am running Windows 11 PRO. Just upgraded to MS 2023 Suite. During the upgrade process, it did not remove any files on MS 2022 Platinum files that I was running previously. So I did a uninstall of MS 2022. But what is strange is that where the software stores its video content, there are 3 folders that contain almost the same content and each takes over 8 gigs storage. Here is where it is stored: C:/Users/Public/Public Documents/Magix/Common/Videocontent. The three folders are:

Movie Edit Pro Premium

Movie Studio Platinum VD

Movie Studio Suite

They all have the same Modification Date. Does anyone know what folder MS 2023 uses as I would like to remove folders not being used by MS 2023 because they take a lot of storage space. One would think it is the Movie Studio Suite but the files in all of them look almost the same. Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

If you go to the program settings o press the Y key in the folder tab you have a list of folder addresses where the program store some data, maybe this can help you to figure out.

Window 10 Pro 64 bit Desktop Version 22H2 OS build 19045.3324

Processor    AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics 3.90 GHz

Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    64.0 GB

Graphic Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6

Ssd 1tb Kingston Kc3000 Gamer M.2 Nvme Pcie 4.0

Onboard sound Realtek
 

johnebaker wrote on 9/5/2022, 12:17 PM

@Jack-Jones1597

Hi

. . . . MS 2023 Suite . . . did not remove any files on MS 2022 Platinum files that I was running previously.. . . .

From your previous post here -  Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium 2020 

The three folders are correct. - there is nothing wrong other than the new content for each was added to each programs own folder for some reason - 2020 should have been replaced with 2022 which would then be replaced with 2023, however something has gone wrong and the content not migrated across.

When installing the three programs did you accept the default installation locations?

John EB
Forum Moderator

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.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

Sony FDR-AX53e Video camera, DJI Osmo Action 3 and Sony HDR-AS30V Sports cams.

Jack-Jones1597 wrote on 9/5/2022, 1:23 PM

@Jack-Jones1597

Hi

. . . . MS 2023 Suite . . . did not remove any files on MS 2022 Platinum files that I was running previously.. . . .

From your previous post here -  Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium 2020 

The three folders are correct. - there is nothing wrong other than the new content for each was added to each programs own folder for some reason - 2020 should have been replaced with 2022 which would then be replaced with 2023, however something has gone wrong and the content not migrated across.

When installing the three programs did you accept the default installation locations?

John EB
Forum Moderator

Yes, I used the default installation locations. However, I wish I had taken note of the specific sub folder under the "VIdeocontent" folder that it was installing too but unfortunately not I did not.

Jack-Jones1597 wrote on 9/5/2022, 1:35 PM

@Jack-Jones1597

Hi

. . . . MS 2023 Suite . . . did not remove any files on MS 2022 Platinum files that I was running previously.. . . .

From your previous post here -  Magix Movie Edit Pro Premium 2020 

The three folders are correct. - there is nothing wrong other than the new content for each was added to each programs own folder for some reason - 2020 should have been replaced with 2022 which would then be replaced with 2023, however something has gone wrong and the content not migrated across.

When installing the three programs did you accept the default installation locations?

John EB
Forum Moderator

Yes, I used the default installation locations. However, I wish I had taken note of the specific sub folder under the "VIdeocontent" folder that it was installing too but unfortunately not I did not.

Although I have only used MS 2023 for a few days now, I am finding it significantly slower that MS 2022 especially when effects that I added to the timeline are rendering. I will be researching that out to see if I can speed things up.

 

johnebaker wrote on 9/6/2022, 1:10 AM

@Jack-Jones1597

Hi

. . . . significantly slower that MS 2022 . . .

We are getting off topic, this topic is for feedback on the program.

Please create a new topic in the forum and provide the following information:

Computer specification - see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and graphics card make/model in full.

Are the graphics card drivers up to date?

A screen shot of the Device options tab.

Download and install MediaInfo and analyse one of the clips and post the results, see this tutorial if you are not familiar with MediaInfo  on how to setup MediaInfo and analyse a video clip.  
 

John EB

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.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

Sony FDR-AX53e Video camera, DJI Osmo Action 3 and Sony HDR-AS30V Sports cams.

browj2 wrote on 9/6/2022, 7:53 AM

@MAGIX_Redaktion

Hi,

It would be nice if Magix would get around to fixing the bugs that I and others have raised - over and over. They were for VPX but also apply to MEP/MS. If you don't know what these are, check my account and the tickets that have been raised over the years along with the detailed Bug List file. Below is only a summary of the bugs without the details and videos.

Bug002 - External audio editor mixdown problem

Bug004 - HitFilm OFX keyframing X and Y problem

Bug014 - Undo causes playback marker to jump to beginning of a range

Bug016 - Startup screen - Load existing projects - popdown now only has the Introduction Video, never anything else. Not really a problem, but why have it if it does nothing? There was a time when it worked.

Bug021 - Transition Effect Transition Basic: Blurry - all of them: Edit Trimmer does not work on transitions with a Blurry effect.

Bug023 - Title Templates, captions go to wrong place if there is something on tracks 4 or 5. They should just go to higher numbered tracks, not somewhere else on the timeline.

Bug026 - Xara Problem: Create overlay graphics/animations, and creating an animation that comes back onto the timeline. All XAR objects are blank after a reboot. See also Bug048 as the problem is now worse.

Bug028 - Thru Black Transition: Using the “Thru black” transition on a track between 2 video clips that are PiP type causes the entire screen to go black instead of just the clips that have the transition.

Bug036 - Audio Effects Equalizer lost if object split or the beginning trimmed (using shortcut Z).

Bug038 - Moving Cut Point in Mouse Mode for All Tracks Error - selecting the head (left) Object Border and moving it creates a transition when going left, or opens up a gap when going right; it should not.

Bug039 - Object and Edit Trimmers (Part 2) - some of the arrow buttons do not work when clicked on in single frame increments but do using 5 frame increments. Also, the Help documentation for the shortcut is wrong - it says to use Ctrl+click, actual shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+Click. Why is it so hard to correct the manual within a few years of being informed of this?

Bug048 - XAR object with MS disappears – The interface between VPX/MEP/MS and Xara has been broken in different ways for several years now. The latest, for the last year is an error produced when exiting from Xara.

Bug051 - Transitions using 3rd Party Transitions - the second clip was no longer showing up in the third party transitions interface, now it's worse - nothing shows up. Tested by me with Pixelan SpiceMaster, Pixelan DissolveMaster, proDAD Adorage, and by Jeff @emmrecs with Vitascene.

There are a few others, but I have given up on them and there are some by others that I cannot validate.

John CB

John C.B.

VideoPro X(16); Movie Studio 2024 Platinum; MM2025 Premium Edition; Samplitude Pro X8 Suite; see About me for more.

Desktop System - Windows 10 Pro 22H2; MB ROG STRIX B560-A Gaming WiFi; Graphics Card Zotac Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX-3060, PS; Power supply EVGA 750W; Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz (UHD Graphics 630); RAM 32 GB; OS on Kingston SSD 1TB; secondary WD 2TB; others 1.5TB, 3TB, 500GB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB, 8TB; three monitors - HP 25" main, LG 4K 27" second, HP 27" third; Casio WK-225 piano keyboard; M-Audio M-Track USB mixer.

Notebook - Microsoft Surface Pro 4, i5-6300U, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD, W10 Pro 20H2.

YouTube Channel: @JCBrownVideos

emmrecs wrote on 9/8/2022, 3:58 AM

@Keith-DARBY

Your post has been hidden since it is on a completely different subject to that of this thread.

Please create a new thread with your question.

Thank you.

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Win 10 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 Quad Core 6700K @ 4GHz, 32 GB RAM, NVidia GTX 1660TI and Intel HD530 Graphics, MOTU 8-Pre f/w audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, PhotoStory Deluxe, Photo Manager Deluxe, Xara 3D Maker 7, Samplitude Pro X7 Suite, Reaper, Adobe Audition 3, CS6 and CC, 2 x Canon HG10 cameras, 1 x Canon EOS 600D, Akaso EK7000 Pro Action Cam

Mariusz-Safin wrote on 9/9/2022, 5:02 AM

I got Vegas with newly bought camera and I stayed with it for many years despite so many problems including the most acute which is rendering. If I could render my work in an earlier version of Vegas it would be perhaps OK but this is not possible. Imagine spending hours working on something and then you get nothing out of it. This is the last time I try to help you so, please do not dismiss it.Given so many years I use Vegas you owe me a lot of time and other losses I demand to be treated seriously. I will not let it be....

Best Regards,

Mariusz

emmrecs wrote on 9/9/2022, 5:54 AM

@Mariusz-Safin

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums, so not a contact for any Magix staff and no-one who posts here owes you anything, sorry.

You have posted to a thread announcing the release of Magix Movie Studio 2023, but your mention of Vegas makes me wonder if you are writing about either Magix Vegas Pro or Magix Vegas Edit.

Magix Movie Studio is a new product, completely different to Vegas Movie Studio version 17 or earlier. This is the forum for questions about the former so feel free to create a new thread with full details of your computer and the problems you are experiencing.

For questions on either of the latter products please read this pinned post and follow the advice given there.

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Win 10 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 Quad Core 6700K @ 4GHz, 32 GB RAM, NVidia GTX 1660TI and Intel HD530 Graphics, MOTU 8-Pre f/w audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, PhotoStory Deluxe, Photo Manager Deluxe, Xara 3D Maker 7, Samplitude Pro X7 Suite, Reaper, Adobe Audition 3, CS6 and CC, 2 x Canon HG10 cameras, 1 x Canon EOS 600D, Akaso EK7000 Pro Action Cam

chrisjw37 wrote on 9/11/2022, 3:02 PM

Upgraded from Magix Movie to the 2023 version, No-where can I find the 'CROP' add-in, which allowed me to remove the task bar from video capture of an on-line world.

Anyone know where or how to find it and is the old add-in compatible with this version (bet it's not)

browj2 wrote on 9/11/2022, 4:38 PM

@chrisjw37

Hi,

Why can't you just use the normal cropping effect - Section?

John CB

John C.B.

VideoPro X(16); Movie Studio 2024 Platinum; MM2025 Premium Edition; Samplitude Pro X8 Suite; see About me for more.

Desktop System - Windows 10 Pro 22H2; MB ROG STRIX B560-A Gaming WiFi; Graphics Card Zotac Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX-3060, PS; Power supply EVGA 750W; Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz (UHD Graphics 630); RAM 32 GB; OS on Kingston SSD 1TB; secondary WD 2TB; others 1.5TB, 3TB, 500GB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB, 8TB; three monitors - HP 25" main, LG 4K 27" second, HP 27" third; Casio WK-225 piano keyboard; M-Audio M-Track USB mixer.

Notebook - Microsoft Surface Pro 4, i5-6300U, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD, W10 Pro 20H2.

YouTube Channel: @JCBrownVideos

chrisjw37 wrote on 9/11/2022, 6:00 PM

Because it reduces the entire image, you cannot just bring down the top and bottom to hide the menus and task bar, it looks terrible when one does that, loses too much.

AAProds wrote on 9/11/2022, 7:11 PM

@chrisjw37

No-where can I find the 'CROP' add-in

Chris, what are the details of this "Crop Add in"? I've never heard of such a thing.

What are you trying to crop? It sounds like it's a computer screenshot/capture ("taskbar" and "menus"). In that case, as JohnCB says, Section will do the job. It's functionality hasn't changed from earlier versions.

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

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

Magix Video Easy version 7.0.1.145

System 2

(Still in use for TV and videotape capture)

Windows 10 v22H2

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

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

VPX 12

browj2 wrote on 9/11/2022, 8:11 PM

@chrisjw37

In Section, open the popdown that says "Like Movie" and change it to "Free Proportions."

John CB

John C.B.

VideoPro X(16); Movie Studio 2024 Platinum; MM2025 Premium Edition; Samplitude Pro X8 Suite; see About me for more.

Desktop System - Windows 10 Pro 22H2; MB ROG STRIX B560-A Gaming WiFi; Graphics Card Zotac Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX-3060, PS; Power supply EVGA 750W; Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz (UHD Graphics 630); RAM 32 GB; OS on Kingston SSD 1TB; secondary WD 2TB; others 1.5TB, 3TB, 500GB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB, 8TB; three monitors - HP 25" main, LG 4K 27" second, HP 27" third; Casio WK-225 piano keyboard; M-Audio M-Track USB mixer.

Notebook - Microsoft Surface Pro 4, i5-6300U, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD, W10 Pro 20H2.

YouTube Channel: @JCBrownVideos

browj2 wrote on 9/12/2022, 9:12 AM

@johnebaker

Hi John EB,

Is it my misunderstanding or is there a problem with the new "Intelligent search feature?"

The new search feature helps you find the correct effects and templates even faster. It provides relevant suggestions as you type, and even overlooks minor spelling mistakes.

Does this mean that it only considers the categories and not the details?

1. Searching under Templates does not find the search term in the details, only the categories.

Example 1 - "Movement" finds two categories - Movement Basic and Movements Basic - and several other categories that seem to have nothing to do with the search term.

Example 2 - "Mountains" finds "Countries & Islands" and there is nothing under that containing anything close to the search term. However, there are "Mountains" under "Themepacks - Utlimate Travel Package." In the image below, I navigated to the latter and then put in the search term. Searching did not find "Mountains." The only thing that I can figure is that it found "ount."

Example 3 - "Alps" finds 40 categories.

Example 4 - "Caribbean" finds nothing but I have one under Image Objects - Deco Elements: Maps Countries & Islands.

2. Searching under Effects is similar.

Example 4 - "Section" finds Section and many others, however, some of them contain parts of the word, like "tion."

Example 5 - "Zoom" finds 10 categories, pretty good first finding "Camera/Zoom shot" and "Hitfilm Zoom Blur" but the others are questionable. It found Chroma key and I can't figure out why.

I would have thought that it would find categories that also have the search term in the details, but I guess that it is limited to the categories.

John CB

John C.B.

VideoPro X(16); Movie Studio 2024 Platinum; MM2025 Premium Edition; Samplitude Pro X8 Suite; see About me for more.

Desktop System - Windows 10 Pro 22H2; MB ROG STRIX B560-A Gaming WiFi; Graphics Card Zotac Gaming NVIDIA GeForce RTX-3060, PS; Power supply EVGA 750W; Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz (UHD Graphics 630); RAM 32 GB; OS on Kingston SSD 1TB; secondary WD 2TB; others 1.5TB, 3TB, 500GB, 4TB, 5TB, 6TB, 8TB; three monitors - HP 25" main, LG 4K 27" second, HP 27" third; Casio WK-225 piano keyboard; M-Audio M-Track USB mixer.

Notebook - Microsoft Surface Pro 4, i5-6300U, 8 GB RAM, 256 SSD, W10 Pro 20H2.

YouTube Channel: @JCBrownVideos

chrisjw37 wrote on 9/12/2022, 1:24 PM

@chrisjw37

No-where can I find the 'CROP' add-in

Chris, what are the details of this "Crop Add in"? I've never heard of such a thing.

What are you trying to crop? It sounds like it's a computer screenshot/capture ("taskbar" and "menus"). In that case, as JohnCB says, Section will do the job. It's functionality hasn't changed from earlier versions.

The crop exists in the 2016 an the 2020 edition and is far easier and much faster to use.