Was wondering if it's me or.......

Bill-the-repair-guy wrote on 6/29/2024, 10:21 PM

I have been reading the manual..... trying to source info and use the correct terms. I am a retired IT guy, that started out doing Home and small business computer repair / networking (retired now). use to dislike when customers would call the whole PC a "hard drive" or say "I have had a pc for 10 years and have learned nothing" lol 😆😆. anyway. Seems like to snag the timeline i have to go all the way up where the timeline marker is and click, then there is just a narrow space up there to drag the timeline. is there a setting to make it so i can click anywhere in a track to get the timeline and likewise drag the timeline from anywhere in a track. I believe my Vegas 16 was like that. Then also when I am adding text, the text properties box, if i want to scroll down to see hidden properties below the bottom of the window ( yes I can resize the window, then i have to resize back again when done) I have to go all the waaaaaaaaay over to the scroll bar for the text properties window. It would be so nice to be able to click outside of the text prop box then use the mouse wheel. thanks in advance, really having a lot of fun now that I bought a better video card.

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Gid wrote on 6/30/2024, 12:13 AM

@Bill-the-repair-guy 

😂 Funny you should mention this, read my comments on this recent post, I too asked that very simple question.  https://www.magix.info/us/forum/scrolling-suggestion-thoughts-please--1339441/#ca1940417

I use Vegas most of the time now & when I come back to Movie Studio I click anywhere on the timeline, nothing happens, I then remember I have to click the very top of the timeline to grab or position the timeline marker,

is there a setting to make it so i can click anywhere in a track

I'm 99.9% certain that the answer is no, I say 99.9% but you'll have to read the replies to know why I say that & the reason I gave a 😂 at the start of this reply.

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I've been a Joiner/Carpenter for 40yrs, apprentice trained time served, I don't have an apprentice of my own so to share my knowledge I put videos on YouTube.

YouTube videos - https://www.youtube.com/c/Gidjoiner

Lots of work photos on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gid.joiner/photos_albums

 

AAProds wrote on 6/30/2024, 1:44 AM

@Bill-the-repair-guy

 is there a setting to make it so i can click anywhere in a track to get the timeline and likewise drag the timeline from anywhere in a track. 

Not that I am aware of. In Settings, on the System tab, there is a tickbox for making the Playback marker jump to the start of an object when you click the object, but that's probably not what you want.

Why? Clicking objects is the only way of selecting them for moving or applying effects. You could possibly have a keyboard shortcut such as CTRL+Click to make the Play Marker jump.

I don't understand your second question: could you give us a screenshot of a before and during looing at the text properties window?

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

Gid wrote on 6/30/2024, 6:07 AM

 I have to go all the waaaaaaaaay over to the scroll bar'

@AAProds Hi, I think he's talking about this in the second question but I'm no sure, similar to the timeline question, you have to have the mouse cursor on the scroll bar to use the mouse wheel to scroll down.

Magix Movie Studio 2025
Magix VPX14
Vegas Pro 21

Boris Continuum & Sapphire, 
Silhouette Standalone + Plugin, 
Mocha Pro Standalone + Plugin, 
Boris Optics,
NewBlue TotalFX
Desktop PC Microsoft Windows 10 Pro - 64-Bit
ASUS PRO WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI AMD Motherboard
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 3.5GHz 32 Core
Corsair iCUE H150i RGB PRO XT 360mm All-in-One Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM 256GB ( 8x Micron 32GB (1x 32GB) 2666MHz DDR4 RAM )
2x Western Digital Black SN850 2TB M.2-2280 SSD, 7000MB/s Read, 5100MB/s Write
(programs on one, project files on the other)
Graphics MSI GeForce RTX 3090 SUPRIM X 24GB OC GPU
ASUS ROG Thor 1200W Semi-Modular 80+ Platinum PSU 
Fractal Design Define 7 XL Dark TG Case with 3 Fans
Dell SE3223Q 31.5 Inch 4K UHD (3840x2160) Monitor, 60Hz, & an Acer 24" monitor.

At the moment my filming is done with a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 5G & a GoPro11

I've been a Joiner/Carpenter for 40yrs, apprentice trained time served, I don't have an apprentice of my own so to share my knowledge I put videos on YouTube.

YouTube videos - https://www.youtube.com/c/Gidjoiner

Lots of work photos on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gid.joiner/photos_albums

 

johnebaker wrote on 6/30/2024, 10:21 AM

@Bill-the-repair-guy, @AAProds, @Gid

Hi

For the first half of your question, can you post a screenshot of the full program interface so we can see the layout you are working with.

Do you have one or two monitors and what size?

 

OT: . . . . having a lot of fun now that I bought a better video card . . . .

👍👍 - can you update your system specs in your signature please.

John EB

Last changed by johnebaker on 6/30/2024, 10:21 AM, changed a total of 1 times.

VPX 16, Movie Studio 2025, and earlier versions 2015 and 2016, Music Maker Premium 2024.

PC - running Windows 11 23H2 Professional on Intel i7-8700K 3.2 GHz, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060 6GB 192-bit GDDR6, 1 x 1Tb Sabrent NVME SSD (OS and programs), 2 x 4TB (Data) internal HDD + 1TB internal SSD (Work disc), + 6 ext backup HDDs.

Laptop - Lenovo Legion 5i Phantom - running Windows 11 23H2 on Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB DDR4-SDRAM, 512GB SSD, 43.9 cm screen Full HD 1920 x 1080, Intel UHD 630 iGPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB GDDR6)

Sony FDR-AX53e Video camera, DJI Osmo Action 3 and Sony HDR-AS30V Sports cams.

Bill-the-repair-guy wrote on 7/1/2024, 7:41 AM

@Bill-the-repair-guy

 is there a setting to make it so i can click anywhere in a track to get the timeline and likewise drag the timeline from anywhere in a track. 

Not that I am aware of. In Settings, on the System tab, there is a tickbox for making the Playback marker jump to the start of an object when you click the object, but that's probably not what you want.

Why? Clicking objects is the only way of selecting them for moving or applying effects. You could possibly have a keyboard shortcut such as CTRL+Click to make the Play Marker jump.

I don't understand your second question: could you give us a screenshot of a before and during looing at the text properties window?

sure,

Bill-the-repair-guy wrote on 7/1/2024, 7:46 AM

this is the text properties box, to scroll down to see the rest of the properties, I should be able to go anywhere to the right of the property box in the empty area and use the mouse scroll wheel, maybe a RC first. I have to go all the way over to the window vertical slider, that is so windows 98 lol

Bill-the-repair-guy wrote on 7/1/2024, 7:51 AM

@Bill-the-repair-guy, @AAProds, @Gid

Hi

For the first half of your question, can you post a screenshot of the full program interface so we can see the layout you are working with.

Do you have one or two monitors and what size?

 

OT: . . . . having a lot of fun now that I bought a better video card . . . .

👍👍 - can you update your system specs in your signature please.

John EB

sure

Bill-the-repair-guy wrote on 7/1/2024, 7:54 AM

I have 2 x 27" monitors, right now for monitor #2 I am using a 40" Vizio LCD TV. Updated my profile hardware specs.