MAGIX Movie Studio 2024 Platinum problems

rickduley wrote on 11/14/2023, 5:54 PM

I spent yesterday downloading and installing MAGIX Movie Studio 2024 Platinum (Serial number:
Removed by Moderator This morning I tried to use it looking forward to a Brave New World after years with Movie Edit Pro Plus. To say that I am disappointed is to gild the lily somewhat.

Before I get on to specific problems, let me grizzle a bit. I was hoping for a much more 'accessible' (that's a technical term when discussing GUIs) interface. Instead, the same old garbage. Bear in mind that MAGIX users are not all teenagers. Some of us (me included) are getting old, our get-up-and-go has got up and went (including our acute youthful eyesight). Although I made this same complaint to MAGIX some years back, no-one has paid attention. For goodness sake! MAGIX must get a copy of 'Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA)' and USE IT! MAGIX must give their aged clientele a GUI they can read easily. MAGIX could only make their GUI harder to distinguish if they took Henry Ford's advice and made every feature Black! To make it worse, they have reduced the sizes of most of the buttons regularly clicked to make them harder to see. It's a fair bet that they still have the Scroll Bar Button used to migrate through the video set to get smaller as the file gets bigger so that, when I am working on a three-hour video, I cannot grab the button with the cursor unless I use a magnifying glass.

In short, MAGIX, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

'Nuff of that (for the time being).

Now for what is wrong this morning (the first time I have tried to edit a video with MS2024P):

The video file I am working on is at OneDrive. (https://1drv.ms/v/s!Al0X3fNHgSK7hXVfj6oRRyiDTolu?e=x2SPcf)

1. Look at the Image (Platinum Problem) . Look at the window in the top right corner. MS2024P seems pretty choosy about which videos it displays with a thumbnail image. I can't figure out any reason for that but it sometimes makes finding the video I want easier if I see a thumbnail instead of an Icon.

2. MS2024P does not play any sound from the video file.

3. MS2024P, when instructed to play the video, takes an age to 'Preload' and then plays at about one frame per second (without sound).

4. When I check with MS Task Manager I find that I am still using 'MAGIX Video Delux Plus' whatever that is. However, when I peek a little deeper I find that MS2024P is actually using about five different things (see image MAGIX Problem ) none of which are working.

I'd like to get these things sorted out for me. I'd like to get some work done.

FWIIW: My machine is Intel QuadCore i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 32 GB RAM, running MS Windows 10 Home v. 1803, build 17134.228 on an MSI B75MA-P45 motherboard with a SAMSUNG SSD main drive.
It has RealTek High Definition Audio and a SAMSUNG U28D590D VDU driven by an NVIDIA QUADRO K620 Video Card. There is a Logitech C930 webcam and I have Windows Defender as Anti-virus with Firefox and Skype running in the background.

Thanks folks. All help will be greatly appreciated

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rickduley wrote on 11/17/2023, 6:05 AM

@CubeAce

Please, what is a 'cracked' program?

Former user wrote on 11/17/2023, 6:17 AM

@rickduley Hi, It's gaining the ability to use software, getting an activation key etc without paying - illegally.

Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s[1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software.[2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_cracking

CubeAce wrote on 11/17/2023, 9:27 AM

@rickduley

Hi Rick.

As well as @Former user s excellent reply and apart from the illegality of it, there is now more of a concern with the safety of downloading such programs as they can be infected with malware. Criminal gangs find it an easy solution to gain access to another computer. Also quite often breaking the software can cause some lack of functionality or instability when running.

Personally when there are such sites as HumbleBundle where every couple of months, software packages of last years offerings are available legally at a much reduced price, it is very hard to justify running such cracked software. I visit often to see what is on offer. I even got my first copy of VPX from there and Vegas Pro. All legal, able to register with Magix and then use for an upgrade offer later if wanted. A very cheap way in to any software ecosystem.

Ray.