@Clifford-Bowman

Hi Cliff. I did say to turn anything within the NB effect that has Bur attached to the slider control to off.

And I, for my part, completely ignored that advice. Mea culpa. I'll learn, eventually. There was indeed a "Motion Blur" slider that, when dragged to 0 (I cannot get the text box entry to work for me) clears up that blur nicely without turning off the "animation" (which does nothing for me except blur the image and make it smaller). :(

It's intriguing to me that even when the start and end positions are identical, motion blur still causes blurring. It's obviously not as straightforward as I am used to with motion blur being somewhat affected by the start and end position.

The effect can easily be done in Size, Position, Rotation instead as John suggests. It just takes a little while longer.

Sort-of, maybe. I don't know how to do keyframing in VProX yet, but it looks like John has even included a handy-dandy link to a tutorial on that for me. If we take into account reading his posts and the tutorial I suspect it will take longer than the NewBlue effect SHOULD have - but in reality it's going to end up being an order of magnitude faster than posts back-and-forth or waiting for NewBlue customer support to respond.

That png problem went away with the upgraded GPU. I am now sure It is down to the amount of vram on the card as I can now induce that behaviour easily just as an experiment by maxing out the cards vram.

I've tried using a JPG instead of the PNG, with no discernible difference.

After your comment on piracy I looked up a chart from November this year of which countries did the most pirating of software per capita. I was both shocked and pleasantly surprised.

1. China
2. Russia
3. United States
4. India
5. Brazil
6. Vietnam
7. Ukraine
8. Iran
9. Italy
10. Taiwan

11. France
12. Turkey
13. Germany
14. Mexico
15. Indonesia
16. South Korea
17. Hong Kong
18. Australia
19. United Kingdom
20. Peru

It must be a cultural thing 🤣.

Ray.

Being British (even stuffier - English) our position in the piracy league tables doesn't surprise me. That kind of thing just isn't cricket, old chap! China and Russia come as no surprise - they have ummm slightly different attitudes to "intellectual property" as a whole. But I'm disappointed in America. I would have hoped for better from a country often considered close in many respects to the UK. Good on Australia though!

I have had a closer look at the original png file and it is showing a lot of compression artefacts, visible in the blue T-shirt, suggesting a high degree of compression has been applied at some stage in getting from the source image to the png file you have.

 

It's horrific but most, if not all, of the artifacts are actually in the "source" video. There is no "better" to be had. I've probably made it slightly worse by scaling the image up (supposedly with our favourite new buzzword "AI") but essentially it's not a great camcorder or expert team. This image - and those of the other 2 judges - were snapped from between people crowding the "stage". It should have been a section of full 1920 x 1080 video but you can't make out the judges from either camera through the crowd, so I'm very much in a position of making the best out of what I've got. Think of it as a school play but with adult-sized people and teachers who are great at teaching but have no experience in "show business" and you'll probably have a better idea of what I've got to work with. It's not going to be the next Oscar-winner, but it's going to please a whole bunch of carers and other relatives - that's good enough for me :)

Possibly scarily, the quality has only risen this far after incremental improvements over the years. No, seriously.

The final FINAL end result will only need to be DVD quality, so with the assistance of those in this thread it's going to be better than it would otherwise have been.

Cheers,

Cliff

PS On the topic of piracy, I decided to try and find some pirated Magix products. I can't speak as to how many had extra malware added, or how many had a better installation experience than direct from Magix (because I was LOOKING not DOWNLOADING) but the sheer number of pirated Magix products - right up to date with the current major version numbers - was an eye-opener. It really doesn't look like DRM is doing what it's meant to :(

DRM certainly isn't the reason I'm using paid product rather than pirated programs (it's my British stiff upper lip).

PPS yes - it was the world's most publicised piracy site. I was aiming for what would be easy to find.