Best Quality Export

RichardDP wrote on 8/27/2024, 12:02 PM

I have been using Movie Studio 2024 for approximately 6 months and have found the application buggy as hell. For example, if I'm working on one end of a project, and I move back to the other end of the project, I find that clips sometimes disappear leaving gaps in the timeline. Sometimes the audio of the missing clip is present even though the video is missing there is no visual representation on the timeline to suggest that anything is present. On other occasions clips are mysteriously missing audio, and have no option to "restore original audio", they are not muted, it just seems like the audio has vanished, but when I expand the audio onto another track it mysteriously reappears. There are many more examples and it can be very frustrating; I have to keep multiple versions of a project just to make sure I don't have to spend masses of time fixing random issues.

So, on my latest project I have completed a section I am happy with, and rather than risk issues appearing as the project gets larger, I think it is safer to bank this section, so I am proposing to export it as a movie, and then import to a timeline as a completed clip before I work on the second half. My question is, what is the best format to export it to in order to preserve the maximum quality? Bearing in mind it will be exported again as part of a larger project?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

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AAProds wrote on 8/27/2024, 8:38 PM

@RichardDP

Richard, if you're sure you will not be using your exported clip in any other program, use MXV. That's Magix proprietary high-quality format. I suggest a quality setting of 94 (Advanced button), giving you 100MB per minute, which should be good for standard definition (720x576) video.

me_again wrote on 8/28/2024, 2:02 AM

@RichardDP @AAProds

I agree with the MXV advice but, as @AAProds impies, it can only be played in a Magix program - such as Movie Studio/ MEP and Photo Manager.

From information I gleaned some time ago, MXV is a container for a "pure/raw series of JPEGs and PCM audio data".

On occasion, I have exported to the old fashioned Motion JPEG AVI format which creates a similar sized file to MXV - a quick test this morning with a 1 minute 7 second video gave 100mb for MXV (unknown kbps) and 97.3mb for MJPEG (12,580kbps) - and can be opened in any video player / editor. The only problem I can see is that there is no quality setting to export to Motion JPEG AVI whereas MXV does have quality setting.

This is just an alternative suggestion and I'm quite prepared to be shot down in flames 😱.

AndyW

CubeAce wrote on 8/28/2024, 2:37 AM

@RichardDP

Hi Richard.

I am less concerned about reusing a rendered clip for quality than you finding the program so 'buggy'.

I have had MMS 2024 for some time now and rarely had any problems that you have described and on the whole been quite stable working at 4K using up to 14 tracks. I have had the occasional crash from working faster than my machine can process my actions and have lost maybe the last ten minutes of work but the backup file has always been effective at restoring the project up to that point.

I have read through your previous posts on problems you have had and how you dealt with them.

One mistake I feel you may have made is being in the wrong mouse mode when dragging objects from one track to another which would explain ghost sound tracks and missing video clips as using the middle mouse mode (Single track mouse mode). Any object grabbed in single track mouse mode will also drag anything after the object selected on that track to the track you place your grabbed object onto. That in turn would cover over but not delete any objects already on the track you placed the object on. You would not then see the covered objects but they would be live and active. Anything before the object grabbed in single track mouse mode is not also moved.

Of course I could be completely wrong but your past problems as you have written them suggest to me that using the wrong mouse mode would have caused the problems you have experienced and an easy thing to have done by mistake.

Ray.