Is Movie Studio 2025 Platinum a stand alone program or an upgrade?

Eric-Elliott wrote on 6/6/2024, 12:30 PM

I'm looking at possibly getting a new video editor because Video Easy has failed on me and is discontinued and no longer supported (won't record audio correctly anymore). I'm looking at Movie Studio 2024 Platinum and 2025 Platinum. Both have confusing interfaces to me unfortunately, but I have no choice and have seen worse.

I want to go with Movie Studio 2025 Platinum since it is on sale for $30, but the email I got says "upgrade", but I do not have a previous version so I am confused. Is Movie Studio 2025 a stand alone I can get or do I have to have a previous version? It looks like a stand alone, but I'm not sure. I don't want to spend $40 for a program that will likely no longer work two weeks after I get it and may not work at all.

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CubeAce wrote on 6/6/2024, 2:43 PM

@Eric-Elliott

Hi.

Choosing the upgrade option will require you to provide a previously owned activation code from a Magix product. Sometimes a cross-grade price will be offered. You have little to lose by trying. The program is a standalone program. It would be prudent to check your system is capable of running Movie Studio.

I have put further information about this in this topic.

Ray.

 

 

Windows 10 Enterprise. Version 22H2 OS build 19045.4894

Direct X 12.1 latest hardware updates for Western Digital hard drives.

Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming motherboard Rev 1.xx with Supreme FX inboard audio using the S1220A code. Driver No 6.0.8960.1 Bios version 1401

Intel i9900K Coffee Lake 3.6 to 5.1GHz CPU with Intel UHD 630 Graphics .Driver version Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2128 for 7th-10th Gen Intel® with 64GB of 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 ram.

1000 watt EVGA modular power supply.

1 x 250GB Evo 970 NVMe: drive for C: drive backup 1 x 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive for Operating System / Programs only. 1X WD BLACK 1TB internal SATA 7,200rpm hard drives.1 for internal projects, 1 for Library clips/sounds/music/stills./backup of working projects. 1x500GB SSD current project only drive, 2x WD RED 2TB drives for latest footage storage. Total 21TB of 8 external WD drives for backup.

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB. nVidia Studio driver version 560.81 - 3584xCUDA cores Direct X 12.1. Memory interface 192bit Memory bandwidth 360.05GB/s 12GB of dedicated GDDR6 video memory, shared system memory 16307MB PCi Express x8 Gen3. Two Samsung 27" LED SA350 monitors with 5000000:1 contrast ratios at 60Hz.

Running MMS 2024 Suite v 23.0.1.182 (UDP3) and VPX 14 - v20.0.3.180 (UDP3)

M Audio Axiom AIR Mini MIDI keyboard Ver 5.10.0.3507

VXP 14, MMS 2024 Suite, Vegas Studio 16, Vegas Pro 18, Cubase 4. CS6, NX Studio, Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio. Mixcraft Pro 10 Studio.

Audio System 5 x matched bi-wired 150 watt Tannoy Reveal speakers plus one Tannoy 15" 250 watt sub with 5.1 class A amplifier. Tuned to room with Tannoy audio application.

Ram Acoustic Studio speakers amplified by NAD amplifier.

Rogers LS7 speakers run from Cambridge Audio P50 amplifier

Schrodinger's Backup. "The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted."

Eric-Elliott wrote on 6/6/2024, 3:01 PM

Yes, the email confuses me. I would rather spend $30 for the new version rather than $40 for the 2024 version that will probably be discontinued and stop working the day after I install it. I am also not even sure I can get a YT channel launched and have already spent too much in my opinion on other things I needed such as lighting, microphone, stands, etc. but it was all needed just to start.
I obviously have Video Easy. I also have SoundForge Audio Cleaning Lab I just bought about 4 weeks ago and installed. I wonder if the Video Easy or both would qualify?
 

I have reached out to support with that question, but have not gotten a reply and likely won't in time. I don't want to buy the 2025 version and find out it doesn't work because I don't have a previous version. It let's me go to the buy screen and says it's $29.99, so....?? If I get it and it doesn't install or something, I don't think I can get a refund because it would be my error.- in purchasing it.

SP. wrote on 6/6/2024, 3:16 PM

@Eric-Elliott The upgrade is always the full, standalone version for a reduced price because you already have an older version registered to your customer account. If no old version is registered you usually can't even buy the upgrade.

Simply try to navigate to the checkout. You need to login and then the page will tell you, if you are eligible to buy the upgrade.

Eric-Elliott wrote on 6/6/2024, 3:28 PM

Thank you SP, it so happens I just tried what you suggested: Clicked on the link to purchase to see what would happen and it said I do indeed qualify even though I do not have a previous version of Movie Studio. I only have Video Easy and SoundForge Audio Cleanup Lab. I'm guessing it doesn't matter and any previous Magix program qualifies?

I did just send an email to Support to make sure as I am confused by stuff like this as well as by video editor programs themselves. Things are so out of control it is everything I can do not to get burned. That is why I want to get Movie Studio 2025 if I need to (which it looks like I definitely do) instead of the 2024 version not just because the 2024 version is more expensive, but judging by the luck I had with Video Easy, the 2024 Movie Studio will be discontinued and fail the day after I install it.

CubeAce wrote on 6/6/2024, 3:55 PM

@Eric-Elliott

Hi.

It's unlikely that Movie Studio 2024 will be discontinued any time soon as it was designed to work on both Win10 and Win 11 but I suppose it is not currently still under development and all programs have limited life spans which mainly rely on the operating system and various graphics drivers being able to be updated as needed by the changes that happen to operating systems. Both have roughly the same computer specification requirements.

Whether a product qualifies or not may vary. I would go with offering the program details that the email was related to.

Ray.

 

Windows 10 Enterprise. Version 22H2 OS build 19045.4894

Direct X 12.1 latest hardware updates for Western Digital hard drives.

Asus ROG STRIX Z390-F Gaming motherboard Rev 1.xx with Supreme FX inboard audio using the S1220A code. Driver No 6.0.8960.1 Bios version 1401

Intel i9900K Coffee Lake 3.6 to 5.1GHz CPU with Intel UHD 630 Graphics .Driver version Graphics Driver 31.0.101.2128 for 7th-10th Gen Intel® with 64GB of 3200MHz Corsair DDR4 ram.

1000 watt EVGA modular power supply.

1 x 250GB Evo 970 NVMe: drive for C: drive backup 1 x 1TB Sabrent NVMe drive for Operating System / Programs only. 1X WD BLACK 1TB internal SATA 7,200rpm hard drives.1 for internal projects, 1 for Library clips/sounds/music/stills./backup of working projects. 1x500GB SSD current project only drive, 2x WD RED 2TB drives for latest footage storage. Total 21TB of 8 external WD drives for backup.

ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB. nVidia Studio driver version 560.81 - 3584xCUDA cores Direct X 12.1. Memory interface 192bit Memory bandwidth 360.05GB/s 12GB of dedicated GDDR6 video memory, shared system memory 16307MB PCi Express x8 Gen3. Two Samsung 27" LED SA350 monitors with 5000000:1 contrast ratios at 60Hz.

Running MMS 2024 Suite v 23.0.1.182 (UDP3) and VPX 14 - v20.0.3.180 (UDP3)

M Audio Axiom AIR Mini MIDI keyboard Ver 5.10.0.3507

VXP 14, MMS 2024 Suite, Vegas Studio 16, Vegas Pro 18, Cubase 4. CS6, NX Studio, Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio. Mixcraft Pro 10 Studio.

Audio System 5 x matched bi-wired 150 watt Tannoy Reveal speakers plus one Tannoy 15" 250 watt sub with 5.1 class A amplifier. Tuned to room with Tannoy audio application.

Ram Acoustic Studio speakers amplified by NAD amplifier.

Rogers LS7 speakers run from Cambridge Audio P50 amplifier

Schrodinger's Backup. "The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted."

AAProds wrote on 6/6/2024, 8:27 PM

@Eric-Elliott @CubeAce

Eric, you're worrying too much about this. Points:

- You've probably got a upgrade offer because Magix knows you've got a qualifying product. You must have registered Video Easy or Sound Forge. Just go through the purchase process and register Movie Studio 2025 with the P3 number you will get in the purchase confirmation email. If worse comes to the worst, you can get a no-questions-asked refund within 14 days. It states that on the bottom of the purchase email.

-There is no way in the world Movie Studio 2024 will stop working any time soon. Gee, IIRC we have a member here using Movie Edit Pro 17, which came out over 10 years ago. The only reason new versions of the program come out is to fix bugs and to tart-up the features list. Twp moths ago, 2024 was THE program and it is not going to die any time soon. On a basic level, 2025 is no improvement over 2024 but having the latest version means it could be bug-patched, whereas 2024 won't be.

-Forget all this stuff about computer specs. Your machine will easily handle anything you can throw at it, including any Magix program. There may be some tweaking required in the program setup, but that can be rectified later if necessary.

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

Various other SSD and HDDs.

Monitor: 27"/68cm Samsung, 2560 x 1440, 43 pixels/cm.

MEP 2021 version 20.0.1.80

Movie Studio 2023 version 22.0.3.172

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

Eric-Elliott wrote on 6/6/2024, 10:37 PM

@Eric-Elliott @CubeAce

Eric, you're worrying too much about this. Points:

- You've probably got a upgrade offer because Magix knows you've got a qualifying product. You must have registered Video Easy or Sound Forge. Just go through the purchase process and register Movie Studio 2025 with the P3 number you will get in the purchase confirmation email. If worse comes to the worst, you can get a no-questions-asked refund within 14 days. It states that on the bottom of the purchase email.

-There is no way in the world Movie Studio 2024 will stop working any time soon. Gee, IIRC we have a member here using Movie Edit Pro 17, which came out over 10 years ago. The only reason new versions of the program come out is to fix bugs and to tart-up the features list. Twp moths ago, 2024 was THE program and it is not going to die any time soon. On a basic level, 2025 is no improvement over 2024 but having the latest version means it could be bug-patched, whereas 2024 won't be.

-Forget all this stuff about computer specs. Your machine will easily handle anything you can throw at it, including any Magix program. There may be some tweaking required in the program setup, but that can be rectified later if necessary.

Yes, I have both Magix programs registered of course. I don't think they work too well unless they are registered. Also, it helps with tech support if they are registered, not to mention offers.