Update 2013: Two software updates later, the problems with the initial release of MEP 2013 appear to have been fixed. The 2013 version is significantly faster than previous versions too.
More details are here.
After hours of experimentation I conclude that the Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013 is not usable for 3D editing at this time.
MEP 2013 added numerous 3D performance improvements; unfortunately, it introduced numerous defects to the 3D editing process. See details at the link.
At this time, I cannot recommend the use of MEP 2013 for 3D editing.
I am re-starting a large project back in the prior version MEP MX Plus, as its 3D support, while slow, actually worked quite well.
The problems have been reported to Magix and hopefully they will release a fixed version of MEP 2013 soon. Magix is a nice video editing package and the 2013 features, especially in terms of 3D performance improvements, will be greatly appreciated once they work correctly.
Has anyone tried to upload to You Tube with MEP 2013? I have to make my video in MEP 2013 and then send the .MVP file to my MEP MX 2012 version because if you don’t, all You Tube can play is a freeze framed picure.
There is no-one to tell you that the edit has freeze framed either until you actually watch the video back and discover you only have about 2 mins of video and then it’s freeze fram picture from then on. This last through the whole of the video after that, with no fix.
Has anyone else had this problem? Magix, you’re lucky I have 2012 to finish the edit on otherwise the new version would be in the bin!
Lisa,
I have managed to output some short 2D from MEP 2013 but I did not upload to Youtube.
For various reasons, I have also been encoding to WMV files instead of MP4 files and the WMV files have been working better for me (smaller, better quality) than MEP’s MP4. Might give that a try.
I went back to the previous version and stopped using MEP 2013. My guess is they release an update within a couple of months. They tried to make MEP 2013 run faster and it does run a lot faster, but they managed to break a lot of stuff in doing so. I concluded that MEP 2013’s 3D support is useless at this point in time. The prior version is solid.
Ed