UPDATE

I have foundout that unfortunately the brightness/contrast level selected IS based specifically on whatever frame you have as the preview when you click the 'auto lighting' button! :(

I know this for a fact as when I pressed the button with the preview on a blackish screen, nothing changed for any of the movie's lighting,
but when I moved the preview frame to a different scene and the pressedthe button, it had the effect.

But the effect is different depending on the specific frame shown in preview when the button is pressed,
and moreover it DOES NOT automatically assess every frame and adapt the brightness accordingly!

Instead if the optimum brightness for the frame on preview is 80/100 and contrast 63/100 it does simply apply that to the entire clip footage,
even if 80/100 would be totally wrong brightness for a different part of the movie!

So in other words this software was a total and utter waste of money to have purchased!!


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Hello, I recently purchased and started using Magix yesterday to edit my videos, basically just because I needed a basic editor which offers lighting/contrast/saturation adjustment control.

I have a few questions about exactly how Magix ''Auto Lighting'' feature works though, which if anyone could provide the accurate answers for to me, that'd be much appreciated. :)


1. Are the ''Brightness/Contrast levels'' which get selected when I click the 'auto adjust' button, dependant/varied based on what screenshot is in frame at the moment when I click the button?

What I mean by that is-
That if I am for example I move the slider to showing preview frame at 1minute 26seconds of the video (which is a darkly lit scene), then click on the ''auto lighting'' button, and so it automatically adjusts the brightness and contrast to whatever levels it does (it doesn't show numerically what ones have been chosen though annoyingly);
If I had instead moved the slider to 3minutes 50 seconds of the video (which could be a brightly lit scene), and then had clicked on the auto lighting button, would the levels of brightness and contrast which got selected automatically be different to scenario 1#?


2. Based on question 1#/answer to question 1#, when you click the auto lighting button, does it dynamically assess the entire movie and automatically adjust the brightness/contrast level to optimum level to match every different frame of the footage?

Or is it rather that if you click the button, it simply puts brightness at 62/100 & contrast at 54/100, and keeps it at those 2 levels for the entire footage length?
(Even if at a different part of the footage 62/100 brightness would be way too bright/or not bright enough for that part of footage).


3. On the auto lighting option there is a drop-down menu where it says ''combine effects curve with object length'', and a few other options... ect
But what exactly do these mean please?
Like if I want the auto lighting effect to be applied to the entire length of footage, not just the frame which I have showing as the preview when I click the button to apply the effect, do I need to click the button saying combine it with the object length??


Thankyou in-advance