http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Tag: pro en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:13:37 +0000 http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-pro-x#post-41670 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:46:00 +0000 Aspyrider 41670@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Pro-X, the new editor from Magix-AG is out now, Its available here from Magix, <a href="http://www.magix.com/us/video-pro-x/detail/">click here</a>!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41637 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:34:43 +0000 Aspyrider 41637@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Yes, select FILE/EXPORT then the type of mpeg you want. :-)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41633 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:48:18 +0000 babyalu 41633@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Another question for my previous post - If we have a video in ts mode, can we convert it in Magix Movie edit pro 12 to mpeg, etc......... when we create the DVD / VCD ?????</p> <p>Thanks,</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41631 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:40:47 +0000 babyalu 41631@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hi All,</p> <p>I purchased Magix movie edit pro 12 and installed it last night on Vista. There are two problems I have. I don't see the option for multi disc creator ( for PCs and DVD players ) and then, the message " Writing lead out and closing disc, this will take some time ". I downloaded the burner patch, as said here, but still it gives me the problem. Please help !!!!! I need to burn DVDsof my kid's program and send it to another country soon.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>RT</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41402 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:07:26 +0000 Coreece 41402@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Also,  what format is your miniDV footage. ( ex. AVI, MOV)</p> <p>You want to make sure you have the best possibly quality prior to encoding DVD.  If your video was compressed or converted to a lossy format somehow during the editing process, it will not look pretty once that file is finally compressed to Mpeg 2 DVD.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41400 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:50:39 +0000 Coreece 41400@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>There will always be some quality loss when encoding for DVD. (even if you can't notice it)</p> <p>DVD footage needs to be mpeg2 which is a lossy format, but it shouldn't look bad if its encoded properly.</p> <p>The three general formats are:</p> <p>1 PASS CBR:</p> <p>This is for shorter videos that have a minimal amount of fast action movements and/or pans This is the faster method of encoding and will render a larger file.typically the best bit rate will be 8mbps, but 7mbps is good too.  You can go higher but this is not recommended because it may be to fast for some DVD players. </p> <p>1 PASS VBR</p> <p>This setting may not be available with many encoders and really isn't necessary, but it would typically be used with longer videos with a minimal amount of fast movement.</p> <p>2 pass VBR</p> <p>This is used for longer videos that include fast action movement.  It will analylze the video in the first pass and than encode a higher bit rate for parts of the video that have fast action and lower bitrates in the areas that have less movement.  This format maximizes quality while maintaing a smaller file size.  The bitrate will depend on how long your video is.   In variable bitrate encoding, there are 3 settings:</p> <p>    - Average Bitrate - Maximum Bit Rate  - Minimum Bitrate</p> <p>The range between 6.5 -8.0 mbps will render better quality, however, if you video is over 90 minutes, you'll have to use a lower range.</p> <p>I have noticed that motion graphics and animated backgrounds seem to be more affected by DVD compression, so if this describes your video, expect there to me some undesireable effects.  There really is not too much you can do...DVD compression was great for awhile, especially when there were only tube TVs.  The moitors today are very detailed and show off all the imperfections.  </p> <p>If you have a Good HD monitor, you'll notice that any Hollywood Blockester on DVD has some artifacts in the motion graphic intros...and in some cases, it's really bad...including text.  You'll also notice some artifacts in the darker scenes of the movie as well.  But sometimes, you really can't tell unless you're looking for it.</p> <p>It also may help to do a search for a good Bit Rate calculator.  This may make it a little easier for you to determine the settings for VBR.  If you don't like the quality using the settings that the bit rate calculator gave you, try using a higher rate if you video didn't max out the space on the DVD.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Corey</p> <p>Its not necessary to know this, but you may see settings for GOP(groups of pictures).  You can usually keep this at the default setting.  GOP is the compression technique that gives DVD compression its lossy characteristic.  Thaey consist of I-frames B-frames and P-frames.</p> <p>I found this following explanation from wikipedia to be rather humorous the fist time I read it:</p> <p>MPEG-2 specifies that the raw frames be compressed into three kinds of frames: intra-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">I-frame</a>), predictive-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">P-frames</a>), and bidirectionally-predictive-coded frames (<a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">B-frames</a>).</p> <p>An <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/I-frame">I-frame</a> is a compressed version of a single uncompressed (raw) frame. It takes advantage of spatial redundancy and of the inability of the eye to detect certain changes in the image. Unlike P-frames and B-frames, I-frames do not depend on data in the preceding or the following frames. Briefly, the raw frame is divided into 8 pixel by 8 pixel blocks. The data in each block is transformed by a <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform">discrete cosine transform</a>. The result is an 8 by 8 matrix of coefficients. The transform converts spatial variations into frequency variations, but it does not change the information in the block; the original block can be recreated exactly by applying the inverse cosine transform. The advantage of doing this is that the image can now be simplified by <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Quantization_(image_processing)">quantizing</a> the coefficients. Many of the coefficients, usually the higher frequency components, will then be zero. The penalty of this step is the loss of some subtle distinctions in brightness and color. If one applies the inverse transform to the matrix after it is quantized, one gets an image that looks very similar to the original image but that is not quite as nuanced. Next, the quantized coefficient matrix is itself compressed. Typically, one corner of the quantized matrix is filled with zeros. By starting in the opposite corner of the matrix, then zigzagging through the matrix to combine the coefficients into a string, then substituting <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Run-length_encoding">run-length codes</a> for consecutive zeros in that string, and then applying <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Huffman_coding">Huffman coding</a> to that result, one reduces the matrix to a smaller array of numbers. It is this array that is broadcast or that is put on DVDs. In the receiver or the player, the whole process is reversed, enabling the receiver to reconstruct, to a close approximation, the original frame.</p> <p>Typically, every 15th frame or so is made into an I-frame. P-frames and B-frames might follow an I-frame like this, IBBPBBPBBPBB(I), to form a <a href="http://videomaker.com/wiki/Group_of_pictures">Group Of Pictures (GOP)</a>; however, the standard is flexible about this.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41393 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:04:27 +0000 robgrauert 41393@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p> Is the quality of a consumer miniDV camcorder going to look bad when burned to a DVD?</p></blockquote> <p>No. Just compress it properly. You may not even really have to compress it if your video is less than 4.7GB.</p> <p> </p> <blockquote><p> What are the best settings to render the miniDV video footage and burn it to DVD and have the greatest possible quality?....</p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> </blockquote> I just render it as DV/DVCPro NTSC.   </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/minidv-quality-to-dvd#post-41380 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:41:20 +0000 RockstarRider 41380@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is the quality of a consumer miniDV camcorder going to look bad when burned to a DVD?.......</p> <p>What are the best settings to render the miniDV video footage and burn it to DVD and have the greatest possible quality?....</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magic-bullet-plug-in#post-41351 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:53:47 +0000 Ken 41351@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> A few years ago, Sony had been including a small set of Magic Bullet plug-in effects. I remember that an "old film" effect was one of them.  Just now I looked at my version 8, and don't see any mention of Magic Bullet. But I do see many plug-ins, incuding one for "old film". Maybe Sony decided they have enough Sony plug-ins, and no longer need Magic Bullet plug-ins. (Just my guess.)</p> <p>Ken Hull</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magic-bullet-plug-in#post-41336 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:45:57 +0000 RockstarRider 41336@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>well i heard that you could get it...</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magic-bullet-plug-in#post-41332 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:17:17 +0000 robgrauert 41332@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> oh my. I'm gonna tell on you. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magic-bullet-plug-in#post-41328 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:46:56 +0000 RockstarRider 41328@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Is there somewhere where i can get the magic bullet plug-in for vegas pro 8 for free...????</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-premeire-pro-audio-encoding-error-2-pass-vbrcbr-issue#post-41233 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:46:08 +0000 clover 41233@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>The error reads: audio encoding failed if audio is in 2-pass vbr encoding mode try either cbr or 1 pass encoding</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41200 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:08:29 +0000 Aspyrider 41200@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I agree Magix tech support is lacking. I produced some tutorials for my <a href="http://intheviewfinder.blogspot.com/">blog</a> and started a users group <a href="http://mepusers.ning.com/">here</a>. However for major tech support Magix and <a href="http://support.magix.net/boards/magix/index.php?act=SF&amp;f=113">this forum</a> is the best place to get it. We have over 160 members in the users group but it is mostly a video sharing site. The Magix forum is also user operated and like us if a user has never encountered a specific problem, you may not get an answer. The problem is Magix tech support is overseas and has a limited staff.</p> <p>Users help when we can but are limited on our time and knowledge. Which is why I think forums like this one are a good way to spread out information. And find help.</p> <p>The software is fantastic, and since it is I rarely run into major tech issues. I find most want to know how to do something rather than how to fix something. I produced a <a href="https://www.createspace.com/255196">DVD</a> on using the software and make web tutorials, plus formed the users group in an effort to try and solve some basic issues.</p> <p>Alas I am just one guy though so more user knowledge is needed. :-)</p> <p>J.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41184 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:41:46 +0000 alvinjh1 41184@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote><p>Who all here is using Magix Movie Pro edit 12? I'm thinking about forming a users group. I don't think there already is one. Posts in this thread will give me some feedback as to there being enough interest.  From Video Deluxe 2.0 to Edit 12 or other Magix editors, if you use them and would be interested, post a note here.</p></blockquote> <p>    My name is Alvin Hill, I am the owner of PerfectPeace Productions. I have been using Magix software for at lease 4to5 years. I have used Movie Edit Pro 10,11,12 and now I'm using the Movie Edit Pro 14 plus version. Magix has great editing software but their customer service/technical support <strong>SUCKS</strong>. Because of Magix technical support issues, I have really thought about using another editing software. But I think this would be a great idea to have this Forum.    </p> <p>On this Forum will there be ways of getting some help with technical problems we may have with Magix Edit Pro?</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>Alvin Hill</p> <p>PerfectPeace Productions</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/adobe-premeire-pro-audio-encoding-error-2-pass-vbrcbr-issue#post-41180 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:36:52 +0000 clover 41180@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>My problem seems to be only when I try to convert a project to a Windows Media File. I use the 2 pass VBR method. I get an error the Audio encoding failed and am told to try one pass or CBR (Constant Bit Rate). I try this but get the same message. I first encountered this issue a year ago and found the fix online but thought it was a one time issue so I did not record how I fixed it and now I have forgotten what I did to fix it. Adobe says they will no longer support Premiere Pro 2 and promptly ended the techsupport. Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated. </p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41173 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:31:28 +0000 Aspyrider 41173@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> BTW, Videomaker...</p> <p>This thread is getting a bit long in the tooth, can we have a section for Movie Edit Pro?</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41171 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:29:44 +0000 Aspyrider 41171@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I believe in MEP12 there is a icon of sissors on the bar above the timeline, between the timeline and media pool. Use that to cut clips. You can place the red scrubber bar on the location of the clip and select the sissors. They changed it in MEP14+, now there is a razor blade under the viewer.</p> <p> Just cut a section and hit Delete on the keyboard, that will cut it.</p> <p>Man...I've been using MEP14+ so long now I have forgotten the buttons in 12. LOL</p> <p>:-)</p> <p>J</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41148 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:47:37 +0000 robh 41148@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello, I feel a little dumb asking such as basic question but how do I make very basic cuts from my video once its loaded in Magix 12? For example if I have a 3 min video but want to delete the first 15 seconds and then delete lets say 1:30 to 1:45 so now the video is 2:30 long. Thanks alot for any help!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41128 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:11:20 +0000 Aspyrider 41128@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hmmm, that is a new one. You may want to ask the members at our MEP users group: <a href="http://mepusers.ning.com/" rel="nofollow">http://mepusers.ning.com/</a></p> <p>Have you tried deleting the install and installing again?</p> <p>J.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-41118 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:19:54 +0000 Gnu 41118@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I could find a Magix Movie Edit Pro 14 forum so I thought this is the most relevant forum group. </p> <p>I just purchased the Magix Movie Edit Pro 14 plus (not the download) and had some problems starting up the program after the installation.  The program loads up, then I get the message "the driver installation must be repaired . Please reboot your system and try again! (#10020)".  Then it tells me to instert the Magix installation DVD again.  I went throught the website support and ran the "Unlockmaster" script which was sent to me, and that did nothing.  I am still wating for a response from the Magix support.  I'm running XP on a P4 3.2Ghz computer.</p> <p>I just like to know if anyone has had this problem before and how it was fixed.  It seems to me to be some DVD protection problem.  Thanks for the help.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-tutorials#post-40601 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:53:39 +0000 Aspyrider 40601@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> My Movie Edit Pro <a href="https://www.createspace.com/255196">tutorials DVD</a> is out now. ;-)</p> <p>(shameless plug)</p> <p>I'm so proud!</p> <p>LOL</p> <p>J.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40499 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:30:14 +0000 v2d11 40499@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>thanks</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40331 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:56:56 +0000 Hamaya 40331@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> If you are talking bout the black and white shirt, on the shoulder, yes that´s what I meant, but I see the same problem in a lot of parts of the video, mostly on those that are open scenes, I dont see it when is a close view of the character tho. I´ll try exporting on diff format as you said.</p> <p>Thanks for the help.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40325 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:51:28 +0000 Aspyrider 40325@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> I didn't notice a specific shake but I did notice at 2:56 there is a character wearing a plaid shirt and the shirt has a shimmer. This looks like the codec decoding the video and adding a shake trying to keep the pattern straight. Maybe that is what you are seeing?</p> <p>If you can't change the characters clothing to something solid try exporting the video to a different format, maybe mpeg 2 or DV-avi. Also try exporting progressive then interlaced and see if the problem goes away.</p> <p> Hope that helped.</p> <p>J.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40322 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:01:29 +0000 Hamaya 40322@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Hello.</p> <p>I was wondering if someone can help mi figuring out this. I have Magix M E Pro 12, I´m a "movie creator" using a video game, The Sims 2. I notice on the first video I made that the image sort of "shakes" sometimes and it doesnt look very neat either. I used Windows Movie Maker to make the first ones, with the same settings on the game to record the shorts, so I know is not the game settings.  I´m adding the url of the video so anyone can take a look of what I´m trying to say.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E70SPNPNZEs" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E70SPNPNZEs</a></p> <p>First time I notice the "shake" is on minute 2:56 when they are dancing, and forward you can see same trouble again.</p> <p>I´ll apreciate any info you can give me.</p> <p>Thank You and Take Care.</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40094 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:58:41 +0000 Aspyrider 40094@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Your welcome! :-)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40090 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:59:00 +0000 sharquteri 40090@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>I think audio comes in AVI. But its coded as DCM. Anyway I downloaded the quick media converter. Prettygood results.</p> <p>Yes, you helped a lot. I will visit the group soon.</p> <p>Thanks!</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40037 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:04:52 +0000 Aspyrider 40037@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p> Ok, the THM file is probably something Canon puts there, I don't think you need it. Is the audio separate from the avi or in the avi? Sounds like you need to convert that file because MEP 12 doesn't understand it.</p> <p>Try one of these free converters: <a href="http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwvideconvert.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwvideconvert.html</a> (perhaps the Quick media Converter)</p> <p>Try that and let me know how it goes. :-)</p> <p>I hope I helped you!</p> <p>:-)</p> <p>J.</p> <p>BTW: We have a MEP users group here: (http://www.mepusers.ning.com)</p> http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/magix-movie-edit-pro-12/page/3#post-40029 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:02:46 +0000 sharquteri 40029@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <p>First of all, thanks for replying me so fast Aspyrider. Magix have to pay you for your fast consultancy :) I m really thankful.</p> <p>According to your advice, I reinstalled MEP. Nope, same problem exists. Yes this problem just comes with my camera's files. I did a small experiment. Chose one of those broken-sound video and open it in windows movie maker. Without doing any edition saved this video as a high quality video. And imported it in MEP again. It worked, I could see all the audio waves and hear the sound but with some quality loss.</p> <p>I guess I m having troubles of codecs as you said before. But with little knowledge of this kind of computer's codecs stuff, I m still away from the solution. Let me reply your questions about my camera:</p> <p>When I import from the camera... No I don't get any dropped frames..</p> <p>I transfer the videos from the sd card of the camera.  Each video comes as 2 files. One is regular movie file, other is THM file (I don't know what it refers to) The format of video is AVI. But audio comes as DCM format. Does it help? My camera is canon power shot sd 900.</p> <p>It looks like I need a good converter program now. Do you know any free software? I m shooting my movie as a high resolution-the highest resololution I can get  (1024x768 / 88 kbps 8 bit) So don' t want to loose anything on converting process.</p> <p>Thanks a lot, Best wishes!</p>