Movie Studio 2024 Platinum - Timeline cursor

ZeffZane wrote on 11/26/2023, 11:46 AM

Hi everyone,

I just bought a Movie Studio 2024 Platinum, I used to work with Movie Studio Platinum 17.0 and earlier version before.
I never had issue with cursor and timeline... Right after installation I could have click anywhere in timeline and was able to select area or click whenever and move with that "current location pipe" anywhere with just mouse selection and with keyboard S could cut video into pieces. Now I have to do all the stuff from preview. Is there a way to enable this somewhere in Settings?

I also tried to find Preferences as they were in Movie Studio Platinum 17.0 with all the settings like auto-save, fade length, smart splits and many more... Now I can't seem to find this Preferences tab in Movie Studio 2024 Platinum. Do you know where to set all these things?

Thanks in advance,
Zeff

P.s. I get that Movie Studio 2024 Platinum should have got a new face, but why in the world would you change all the basic stuff that always worked? This is bonkers... Now this is like buying completely new tool, which I seriously hate and if I would be able to return the product I would do it in instance and returned back to Movie Studio Platinum 17.0...

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CubeAce wrote on 11/26/2023, 12:00 PM

@ZeffZane

Hi.

That is because Movie Studio 2024 is a different program. The program is a rebadging of the Magix program formally known as Movie Edit Pro. Vegas dropped entirely the development of Movie Studio after the 17 release.

The nearest Vegas product to Studio is now Vegas Edit Pro. Magix decided to remove the gap in the Vegas line-up for better or worse by allowing a cross grade to Movie Edit Pro but rebadging it to resemble the old product name.

So a lot of the features you were used to have now either gone or been replaced with a new work flow and why old plugins no longer work or are included but replaced.

This should have been make clearer at the time by Magix but it has been three years now. For more information I suggest you go to the Vegas forums.

Ray.

ZeffZane wrote on 11/26/2023, 12:07 PM

Well that's just great :(

Can I have a multiple questions that I was used to then? Maybe you can help or someone else:
- Is there a way to move freely in timeline or is this feature completely disabled?
- Is there a way to auto-save instead of having it auto-save per minutes? The pop-up window with saving it's extremely annoying as you focus on editing and suddenly pop-up in middle of the screen distracts your concentration and it's just super annoying...
- When uploading videos in the timeline is there a way to make it split between each other? like fade video and audio for 3 sec or 5 sec?
- And to that point above if it doesn't have following video to end with automatic fade?
I have ton more questions but I think I will have to figure out all the tricks when using it, I hate it :/ I wish I knew all that you just wrote me, I wouldn't purchase in a first place...

browj2 wrote on 11/26/2023, 12:14 PM

@ZeffZane

Hi,

...but why in the world would you change all the basic stuff that always worked?

because it's an entirely different program. The Vegas team stopped development of Movie Studio with v17. The upgrade options were to Magix Movie Studio (MMS) (which used to be Movie Edit Pro) or Vegas Pro. MMS has more tools, features, and content oriented for the consumer or normal user.

To understand what you now have, you will have a learning process, but, if you stick with it, I think that you'll find that it has advantages over VMS.

Start with the second tutorial shown in this post.

Splitting an object (event in Vegas speak) is Trimming in MMS and the shortcut is T. Check the buttons above the timeline to see what they do and their respective shortcuts. Z will remove the left part of an object from where the playback marker is located, U will remove the right part. Keep gaps closed by using the mouse mode for a track, not an object.

Settings are under File, Settings - Program (Y), Movie (E). In the Program settings, you may want to change the spacebar behaviour to stop at the current playback position rather than where it started.

One of the biggest advantages that you now have is that MMS has multiple timelines, called Movies. See the first part of the manual.

Also, MMS has 3 modes, Storyboard, Scene overview, and Timeline. You can work in Storyboard mode to quickly get things on track 1. Use Timeline for normal editing.

Note the track protocol is different from VMS. It goes by track number, not by position on the screen. 1 is the lowest number, thus your background. 2 is higher - so an overlay or PiP would go on this or a higher numbered track. Titles should be on a higher numbered track than any other images/videos at the same point in time. Thus, there is no more need to insert tracks. Your background will stay on track 1.

John CB