Additional device

R063 wrote on 2/4/2022, 7:00 PM

Hi. I just got a laptop and I want to activate Movie Studio - which I already have on my desktop - on to this laptop as well. How do I go about doing this? Is there a cost involved?

I also saw on the product list on website that the latest version can edit 360 degrees videos; does this mean it can edit Insta360 videos like the Insta360 app?

Thanks

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AAProds wrote on 2/4/2022, 8:22 PM

@R063 Be very careful here. Depending on what version of Movie Studio you have, you may be in for a surprise.

Sony sold Movie Studio to Magix which basically, ditched the old Sony/Vegas version and replaced it with Movie Edit Pro, renamed "Movie Studio". If you install the current version of Movie Studio, you're effectively going to get Magix Movie Edit Pro 2022, a very different program to the original Movie Studio.

So, what version of Movie Studio do you have now?

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

R063 wrote on 2/9/2022, 3:29 PM

I have Movie Studio 16 Platinum on my desktop. Do you mean the interface is totally different on Magix Movie Edit Pro?

johnebaker wrote on 2/9/2022, 4:06 PM

@R063

Hi

Vegas Movie Studio (VMS) 16 is a Vegas product which looks similar to Vegas Pro and has a similar workflow. Vegas products have their own forum here. Vegas Creative Software dropped further development of Vegas Movie Studio to concentrate on Vegas Pro last year.

Magix Movie Studio (MMS) 18 and 2022 are based on Movie Edit Pro which is a completely different prgoram from VMS with a different interface and workflow.

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 24H2 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.

R063 wrote on 2/9/2022, 4:38 PM

In a nutshell then, it sounds like there’s no way to get an additional licence (FOC or even not FOC) for the laptop on VMS, but rather buy a whole new program? Feel like I’m only getting to grips with the UI of VMS and so don’t really fancy the same learning curve all over again, but I suppose there’s no choice. Any products with a similar UI to VMS out there?

What about the 360 video editing aspect of it all? Would prefer to edit that type of video on a bigger screen and that also isn’t touchscreen.

ericlnz wrote on 2/9/2022, 4:55 PM

@R063 Magix allows your VMS16 to be be activated on up to two machines at the same time. So you should have no problem installing it on your pc and laptop.

If you are having problems activating it on your laptop please go to the Vegas forum for assistance https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/vegas-movie-studio-forum/