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Hi Johnny, I was given the update by magix on wednesday after my version told me that there was no update available and I had to go around the houses to show people that there was something wrong with my MEP 2013 Plus. A nice man at Magix named

Movie Studio

8 answers, most recent on 10/6/2012

RE: Should I check the box "import if going to make a DVD later"?

Yes, John. All my questions for awhile will relate to producing one wedding video with two camera angles from the ceremony. At this point I am considering re-entering the wedding video production business and I am evaluating this product for user

Photostory

6 answers, most recent on 10/3/2012

RE: who else has negative experiences with the Magix Photo Story

Thank you for helping all of the noobs out there (including me). I edited with Sony Vegas for several years and, while I became somewhat proficient, it was sort of clunky and lacked a little user-friendliness and fun factor. Now, after a couple

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 9/16/2012

RE: Can I create a slide show menu with multiple in levels?

I saw an answer to this elsewhere and tried it. Just add all the files into one large file - (but it has to be less than a DVD volume to fit) Then at the the output stage - choose a DVD 'title page' choose one which allows sub

Movie Studio

20 answers, most recent on 9/23/2012

RE: wishlist

HI Guys, Thanks for all your responses. John Youtube - I've seen people talking about this on the forums, in prevoius versions you could change the login details but I can't find this in version 18 or am I missing something, I now save

Movie Studio

13 answers, most recent on 8/23/2012

RE: No Sound in my video clips.

Hi Leroy appears to have vanished - hopefully he has succeeded in getting the audio into MEP. @George The camera Leroy is using does save H.264 in an avi container. It appears that he is not alone in having this problem with the audio from

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 8/23/2012

RE: When I create a dvd the menu screens shots change are hi-lighted yellow when I hover over them, how do I chnage this colour

Thanks John, I finally discovered this. Do you know if there is a wishlist for this product, in Sony Vegas you can customise the buttons to exactly what colour you want. This is a brilliant program, it's just missing a few simple

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 8/22/2012

RE: Does any one have any tips to make Movie Editor Pro 18 run faster?

Hi George, The first this i did was to convert the files to mpeg and load them into Sony Vegas but quality was not good. I used www.brorsoft.com who claim to have a set up for Sony Vegas but I still didn't get the quality I'm getting in MEP so

Movie Studio

11 answers, most recent on 8/22/2012

Does any one have any tips to make Movie Editor Pro 18 run faster?

I'm running with an i7 processor 6gb of ram on windows 7 64bit with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 550M graphics card and this program is so slow. It is a brilliant program but it takes me twice as long to edit than in Sony Vegas, it keeps pausing for no

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 8/14/2012

RE: Movie Edit Pro 16 - why the long loading time?

Thanks Gandjcarr for your very prompt and helpful reply. What you've suggested was my first thoughts on the problem - i.e. some sysytem performance issue. However, whilst I prefer using Magix Movie Edit Pro 16 HD, I also use Sony Vegas Movie

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4 answers, most recent on 7/30/2012

RE: lock not passed during loading: effid 101

Hi When you access a file from an application, eg MEP, Windows does all the file handling and checking. If the file exists and is able to be opened, ie not locked by another application, then what is called the file handle and locking

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 6/11/2012

RE: Editing output from Canon XF300

Although my post is too late, I hope it could be useful to you. Yeah, if you would like to edit the canon xf300 mxf files with FCP/FCP X, you need to install xf-plugins to make them compatible, which is very expensive. As far as I know, you

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 5/25/2012

Which MovieEdit Pro, I'm confused?

I downloaded what I thought was the correct demo but when I imported a video clip made on my Panasonic X900M camcorder with 5.1 surround sound, I noticed the sound track waveform was single, i.e. mono. I thought all the 5.1 tracks would show up

Movie Studio

One answer, on 2/10/2012

RE: Exporting Movies

While I cannot answer your question you are right about there being no customer support, at least in the US. Forget support: you cannot even get through in SALES! A voice comes on that sounds like come kid who tells you to call back later. This

Movie Studio

One answer, on 2/7/2012

RE: Best vs. "best" editing software

Vesku I am in complet agreement with you on the Cyberlink product I tried it and had very similar thoughts. That product was also prone to frequent crashes. I am running a 1.7 GHZ AMD64 Quad Core with 6GB RAM so any of the top video editing

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 12/12/2011

magix movie maker 16 and H.264 codec?

I bought a new camcorder yesterday by Silvercrest, and it records its video's in AVI format, but it uses a H.264 codec. I have tried opening its video files in magix movie maker 16, and all it does is just give me only 2 seconds of the video

Rescue Your Videotapes!

One answer, on 11/9/2011

Can 'Rescue your videotapes' file be imported into Movie edit pro mx premium?

Can 'Rescue your videotapes' (by Magix) files be imported into Movie edit pro mx premium? Latest versions of course! Scenario: I used 'Rescue your videotapes' (by Magix) to rip an old VHS tape of my wedding to the PC, no problem

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 10/31/2011

RE: How do I close a project in Magix MX?

Hi Which version were you able to close a project in? Not all windows programs allow multiple 'project' windows open, in particular video editing software. I have had MEP versions 11,14,15,16,17 and now MX, also Pinnacle Studio

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 10/23/2011

Movie Edit Pro Imporvement Requests and Feature Suggestions

I've been with Magix since MEP 11 on my old single core WindowsXP computer and now have MEP 17 on my new quad core, Windows7, HP Pavilion dv7 laptop. I generally like most things about the program, but one problem persists - the preview stutters.

Movie Studio

2 answers, most recent on 10/2/2011

RE: How to add side by side half frame text/titles into 3D project ?

I've found a very easy solution to the problem.....................I'm now using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 11 instead. After watching a couple of their 'webinar' tuition videos all is sorted. Recommended, far superior to Magix efforts.

Photostory

2 answers, most recent on 9/12/2011

RE: Does Photostory allow me to import Adobe After Effects?

Unfortunately, it is not a format we support. I do not have any suggestions as to what you can do, I doubt we will have support in the future for them either. Sorry. Thanks for the reply. I can use these in Sony Vegas Pro to

Movie Studio

One answer, on 8/24/2011

audio is suddenly slow

I've been working in Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus with no problems, until now. The file I'm working with is an .avi and recorded with the same camera (Sony HDR-FX1) as the other files. However, now the audio is slow! I've rebooted the computer,

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 8/9/2011

RE: TO ANYONE THINKING ABOUT USING MAGIX MOVIE EDIT PRO

MEP is the most stable and responsive video editor I have ever used. I rate it above other video editors that I have used. I used Adobe Premiere Elements through version 9. Feature set cannot compare to MEP..Premiere Elements is a drag

Movie Studio

6 answers, most recent on 8/4/2011

RE: How to setup chapter mark without menu link

Hi ishtor The reason you are getting different answers to your question is due to the initial question which was asked being open to many different interpretations. I also had this with your other post re music looping. Many of the users on