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AAProds wrote on 8/9/2023, 10:25 AM

@Helge-Johnson

Could you please advise the name of the program you're using and also the version number (Help>About).

If you're on a recent version of Magix:

Something you can check: on the Burn screen, do you have any video when you use the virtual remote control on the left (ensure "Preview" is active at top-left of screen?

This won't help you solve your missing picture but will save you disks: when selecting the burner (item 1) choose "image recorder". Magix will then create an ISO that you can open with VLC Player to check your "burnt" or, I should say, created DVD before you actually burn it to a physical disk.

 

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 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

Helge-Johnson wrote on 8/12/2023, 9:47 AM

I'm using Magix Movie Studio 2024. Do I have to get a special codex to code MPEG4?

emmrecs wrote on 8/13/2023, 8:15 AM

@Helge-Johnson

Welcome to the Magix user to user forums.

Which edition of Movie Studio 2024?

The mp4 codec is a once-only purchase.

However, you cannot burn an mp4 file direct to a DVD and have it play as a normal DVD. The format of video files has to be mp2, along with a number of data files which the DVD player requires in order to properly read the disc.

Jeff
Forum Moderator

Win 11 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 14700, 32 GB RAM, NVidia RTX 4060 and Intel UHD770 Graphics, MOTU 8-Pre f/w audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, Vegas Pro, 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

Helge-Johnson wrote on 8/13/2023, 10:18 AM

Can I burn the mpeg 4 files direct to a blueray disk?

emmrecs wrote on 8/13/2023, 11:37 AM

@Helge-Johnson

Can I burn the mpeg 4 files direct to a blueray disk?

If you want to be able to play the disc on a Blu-ray player then no, sorry.

Jeff

Win 11 Pro 64 bit, Intel i7 14700, 32 GB RAM, NVidia RTX 4060 and Intel UHD770 Graphics, MOTU 8-Pre f/w audio interface, VPX, MEP, Music Maker, Vegas Pro, 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