Hi All:

Glad to see the old gang still here, that you haven't succumbed to the COVID shot.

Old Man long story first. (My main question in the Subject.)

I have barely used my old 2019 Movie Edit Pro Plus over the years. But I edited some video for the Total Eclipse that we had here (U.S.) and my usual editor, PD, couldn't (or I couldn't easily) do what I wanted.

So I opened my ancient MEP and edited the video easily. (I have always preferred the UI in Magix to anything else that I've used, even tho it's sometimes "clunky.")

But, as usual for Magix, it took "forever" (relatively speaking) to encode the final product.

So I was curious whether recent versions of MMS were any faster. (Albeit on my old i5-9400 and GTX-1650 Super.)

Then MAGIX offered an upgrade to 2024 MMS Platinum for 20 USD. Such a deal! (IIRC, it's what I paid a few years ago for the 2019 upgrade, altho that came with Mercalli stab. The upgrade that I bought didn't.)

In the sometime American mentality of "Ready, Fire, Aim," I bought the upgrade to MMS.

And then I came to the forum, only to find that MAGIX is up for sale/could go out of business.

Oh well. Hopefully they got most of the bugs out of this version. (Although I never had any crashes during what little editing I did with the 2019 version.)

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be any faster at encoding MP4. (Two times the length of the video. Although, to be fair, that's with image stabilization.)

(Altho, as I write this, I decided to try HEVC. To my surprise, it's included now (maybe because of the Platinum version?) and is using my GTX to encode the video at 2x real time. Maybe I'll start using MMS more now?)

So, my question: Although MMS installed less garbage than it used to, I have a MAGIX Cloud Import thing. I don't have anything in the cloud. Okay to uninstall it?

Also, in the "old" days, we had to play tricks on MEP with the Windows' Graphics setting to force it to use the (low power) Intel GPU. I haven't done anything with this new install/upgrade. Should I?