Totally borked! If you remove a section from an object, the sections on other objects disappear when you click on them. Bizarre and pretty unprofessional something as basic as this wasn't picked up in beta testing.
Bug report made.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pR5Etv8XHwYyG8yyD6iaz0Mf2ry6Jhdx/view?usp=sharing
Ray, you're forgiven! 🙂
Hi
. . . . Totally borked! If you remove a section from an object, the sections on other objects disappear when you click on them. . . . .
So far I cannot replicate this in MEP 2022 !
John EB
Greetings Al
Yes it is annoying and obviously shouldn't happen. The video you posted shows that "the problem" happens in sequence and I noticed that you had Section ticked when you went back to the other photos.
I found this out to my cost, hence the birth of this topic and so at the moment I've got used to clicking Section OFF whenever I've finished with it until someone at Magix can sort it - although I don't think that will be this side of Chistmas / New Year.
AndyW
Hi
Further to my prevoius comment and following the sequence you demonstrated in the video, I can partially replicate the issue in that after resetting clip 3 then clicking clip 1 followed by clip 2 - only clip 1 has section effect reset - clip 2 does not reset.
John EB
Mine looses all sections when you just click back on the first
Following Al's video I knocked up a 3 parter and so does mine - AndyW
Greetings all,
This doesn't appear to be fixed in MEP 2022 version 111
AndyW
I've recieved a replay for Support:
Thank you for your message and the video. Unfortunately I can't replicate any problems with the section effect. When I cahnge the section of an object and then cahnge the section of another object, everything stays as I have set it. This is why I would like to check if resetting the program settings helps.
Please go to "File > Settings > Reset program settings to default" and restart the program.
I have rolled back to MEP 2021, so if one of you could try a Reset Program Settings to Default and advise, I'd be grateful.
Just done the 111 update, nothing to loose on my setup so did the default setting reset, apart from putting audio & video on the same track, all is as it was, i hadn't changed much else, it was already pretty much at the default,
Section is still 'odd' 🤷♂️ Preview & Edit are one or the other on All events, not individually, it feels like this fx is spread across all events rather than being applied to each event separately, If i choose Edit, all events are in Edit mode, if i choose Preview, all are in preview mode,
If i have 3 events on the timeline, i can section each one, then when i return to the others i still see the section selection & can tweak it 👍
But if i change over to Size/Position, then back to Section, the selection is gone on the highlighted event, but is still selected on the other 2, 🤷♂️
Basically Section still resets to full screen selection after going to other events of fx's, that's useless to me, if i section something, i expect it to stay sectioned, whatever i do, even going back to alter or adjust the selection, .
Great, thanks Gid. I'll point XXXX to this thread as evidence. "Odd" that they (Magix) can't replicate it. 😒
Cat doing the washing-up. I'm impressed!
@Former user @AAProds @browj2 @johnebaker @me_again
Hi Gid, Al.
On another thread someone reported the developers were using the game ready drivers rather than the studio drivers. Would that make a difference?
Ray.
@CubeAce 😮 So you want me to change driver from Studio, you do know it has to install th driver when you swap over ? 🙉😂
I'll try later 👍
I don't even have "drivers" for my graphics card! 😉
Greetings,
Reading the last few posts here has reminded me that I've not had a reply to my support request about this and on checking I never received a confirmation email. I can only assume that I did something wrong as I normally do get a reply. Ho-hum.
Anyway back to this problem. I agree with @Former user that section is now weird i.e. sometimes working and sometimes not. Section is maintained now on a selection of images / video clips when another is edited unfortunately the one that's being edited loses it's Section selection - if you can follow that.
And @CubeAce Ray, I've installed the latest Game ready drivers for my RTX2060 (497.29) and the problem is still the same. I may as well keep these drivers installed as Nvidia say the drivers are the same just that they may not be as stable for the creative platform as the Studio drivers. I'll soon find out.
"If you are a gamer who prioritizes day of launch support for the latest games, patches, and DLCs, choose Game Ready Drivers.
If you are a content creator who prioritizes stability and quality for creative workflows including video editing, animation, photography, graphic design, and livestreaming, choose Studio Drivers"
@AAProds Al, I can confirm that resetting MEP to default appears to have no effect on this problem.
AndyW
The next instalment from Magix (I pointed to this forum topic):
Thank you for your message. Alright, in this case I will pass on this problem to our developers.
Maybe an old graphics card driver is causing this problem or users with this problem are using the Studio driver. It is important to use the Game.Ready-Driver.
Thank you for this hint and Happy Holidays.
Greetings,
Re-submitted a bug report a few days ago and just received this reply:
"Thank you for your message and the video. I could replicate the problem in the latest version.
I need to address this problem in our next developer meeting. Thank you for this hint and apologies for any inconveniences.
I will keep you posted"
AndyW
Good job, Andy, thanks.
Hmmm, the plot thickens. With patch 116:
With a JPG, MP4, MP4 on the timeline, Section works as it should.
With a JPG, MP4, AVI on the timeline, bug is evident.
With a JPG and AVI on the timeline, bug is evident.
The AVIs involved are Lagarith and DV-AVI.
Yes I am also seeing this issue with the latest version MEP
Working with DV-AVI Files.
To be fair though the issue was somewhat there in the older version of both MEP and VPX. though not as bad.
In particular when I select section > Free Transform > then when I do my selection and hit play to see how how it looks, then it resets itself each time back to Like Movie (full screen checkbox) If I want a free transform then each time I decide to press play to see how it looks then I have to keep rechecking the option back to free transform.
In MEP 2022 and will be the same on VPX 2022 since I guess they use the same code part for the section.
The same thing happens along with the said rest of the section back to full screen.
In my case I am cropping VHS transfers to DV-AVI files and cropping away the bottom head switching noise and top close captions are and left and right side bars, to get a clean image then I wish to recentre the 4:3 Image on the screen. Again in the latest versions the centre video is gone, the [x] for position and [x] for anchor do nothing when clicked except to rest it to the dead centre which is not what I want when the image is less than full frame.
It should work by "Centre Cropped Video" so if the cropped video is say 698 pixels wide by 556 high after cropping from original size of 720x576. Then I am wanting to positon the new cropped video dead centre in the 720x575 frame with some black bars albeit very thin showing around each edge and the video exact centre. I think that it needs the centre button back, at moment I am doing by eye again.
Anyway, Currently I have upgraded MEP to 2022 but still on VPX 2021 (did try VPX 2022) but same bug.
As say there is no way to easy centre video now as there was in the older versions.
When I get chance I plan to make a video of the bug that is open on both version old and new.
But yes so far even in the latest release of MEP 2022 build 119 the bug is still there.
I tried mpeg-4 also it seems to sometimes work but again is hit and miss.
I can confirm @Beardeboss findings with 119. Seems that MP4s are OK but AVIs will cause all Sections to be reset when the object (even if it is not an AVI) is clicked.