What 'quality level number' do I need to select to get max possible??

Apollo89x wrote on 6/23/2018, 12:31 PM

Hello, when processing/saving clips edited using Magix in mp4 format it offers you the choice of what 'quality' you wish to save the video as (1-49).

Ofcourse everyone wants the highest quality resolution for every video, and so would naturally always select 49.
Ultimately though all that does is increase the bitrate from 4,000s to 18,000+, which is ofcourse a useless, as I have to simply then re-encode the video afterwards back down below 4,000 to be able to actually watch it/skip fluidly to sections that I want without a delay.

Plus it takes a ridiculously long time to edit videos this way!! :(
As my videos are 10-12mins each (approx 400mb size): I upload the clip onto Magix (takes 30seconds), I click ''auto adjust lighting'' takes 30seconds, I click save file to my laptop (takes 8hours+) for it to save!! :Z
But I then have to convert that file of 18,000 bitrate into an identical mp4 file but of 4,000 bitrate (and the quality of the video remains identical (at 4k 1920 x 1080).

But so is there any way of knowing exactly wha ''quality level'' I should select on Magix to ensure that it doesn't save at a lower quality than the original actual footage is, but that it isn't set for a higher bitrate (even though that'll have zero improvement on the actual quality)?

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Apollo89x wrote on 6/25/2018, 9:31 AM

MM does have a pause button, as does every other video editor...

Its the same as the play button, and when pressed it pauses the preview/footage exactly at that point,

Rather than resetting it to the start or to a marker like Magix does.

To be honest in gonna just accept I wasted money paying for Magix when it doesn't even have basic core features.

WMM may reduce my bitrate down from 27,000 to 6,000 however you cannot actually even visually notice the difference between them.

Plus WMM is designed in a logical way that is user friendly, and has good features which are not hidden away and require pages and pages of a manual to be read to discover them,

so I'm gonna stick with WMM, as even with it reducing video's bitrate its still far better overall than Magix which is just a pain to use due developers having cut corners.

wongck wrote on 6/25/2018, 9:41 AM

Its the same as the play button, and when pressed it pauses the preview/footage exactly at that point,

Rather than resetting it to the start or to a marker like Magix does.

LOL... isn't there a setting to turn that on/off?

Yup.... too complex because almost every damned thing is customisation..... really I would just use a software without doing any RTFM.

Look at the modern day hand phones, I don't think the iPhone tells you how to pick up a call, everyone just knows how to pick up a call.... was it press or slide the red or green button ... oh hell there is only one button in the front, that must be the pick up button.

wongck wrote on 6/25/2018, 9:47 AM

Look at the modern day hand phones, I don't think the iPhone tells you how to pick up a call, everyone just knows how to pick up a call.... was it press or slide the red or green button ... oh hell there is only one button in the front, that must be the pick up button.

Before someone says that I am poking fun at another.

The above paragraph actually described me..... when I first got my smart phone. Someone had to tell me how to answer a call.

johnebaker wrote on 6/25/2018, 10:59 AM

@wongck

. . . . Look at the modern day hand phones, I don't think the iPhone tells you how to pick up a call, everyone just knows how to pick up a call.... was it press or slide the red or green button ... oh hell there is only one button in the front, that must be the pick up button. . . . .

So it wasn't just me then 😡 - had the same issue when I dumped the iPhone for a Samsung and then again from that to a Wiley Fox - three phones, three different ways of picking up a call !!!!

@Apollo89x

To use wongck's example of moving from one phone to another - while the MEP basics are obvious, features are in places different, it is customisable - some functions need turning on eg scrubbing and cursor stopping at playback position, as I previously posted, other 'nuisances' need turning off and some keyboard shortcuts eg Trimmer-single object and Trimmer-editor I swap because I use the single object one in preference to the other.

. . . . I'm gonna stick with WMM . . . .

Do you wish me to close this topic - it appears that it now not going anywhere constructive?

John EB

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Apollo89x wrote on 6/25/2018, 1:49 PM

Feel free to lock this topic if you want to mate. :)

I have now discovered that on Windows Movie Maker all you need to do to retain the full original bitrate (or rather have a level of 24,000 bitrate) as a constant bitrate, even when saving the file out off MovieMaker, is to save it as a HD .wmv file (not as an .mp4 file).

Since when saving to mp4, even when I set the custom bitrate at 30,000/100,000 and FPS at 50, MovieMaker will only save it as a Variable Bitrate not as a Constant Bitrate, which is why it kept reducing down to below 6,000.
However if I now save it as a HD wmv format file, it retains 24,000bitrate / although does drop the FPS down to 29, but atleast now I can upload the full edited file onto Magix as a 24k bitrate file, and then simply do the auto-lighting on here, then save the file from here back to my laptop as an MP4 file (maintaining that 24,000+ bitrate hopefully).