Category Archives: Editing

My next 3D project will be attempted in Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013

The Civil War battle re-enactment video I uploaded last night, was edited in Sony Vegas Movie Studio 12. Vegas MS has decent 3D support except for some issues that make synchronizing dual camera tracks a bit tougher. Once two tracks are paired as a 3D stereoscopic pair, there is no way to shift one of the tracks over by individual frames, which may be necessary if they were not precisely synchronized. However, I have found version 12 of the Vegas Movie Studio to be rock solid for 3D editing (unlike prior versions).

Magix Move Edit version 17 was also very solid for 3D editing. But their 2013 edition, renamed to Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013, was filled with bugs. Even basic 3D features appeared to have not been run by a software tester – they just didn’t work. A later update fixed most of those problems, but, as widely reported online, there continue to be problems exporting video output to MP4 files. It seems this might have to do with trying to use GPU hardware acceleration – or not – or maybe which brand of GPU is installed on the computer.

Based on some experiments, a simpler solution is to just output to Windows Media (WMV) format files. Seems much faster than MP4 encoding and so far, no problems encountered. I will do some experiments before I do this next project in MEP. MEP has a nice feature for 3D editing and that is automatic dual track alignment, based on the sound tracks, plus after pairing, the tracks can be shifted left or right, one frame at a time.

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Adobe’s cloud-based software-by-subscription under fire

Adobe competitors pounce after subscription backlash | Business Tech – CNET News.

Making the rounds right now is the observation that photographers who currently edit their photos get locked into Adobe forever. If they stop paying their annual subscription fee (which is priced about twice what the packaged software had cost, based on Adobe’s historical update rate), they lose access to their photos which are (or will be) stored in incompatible file formats (incompatible with older software).

Photographers are saying they intend to abandon Adobe’s software products over this.

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Edit your 3D with Pinnacle Studio 16

Edit your 3D with Pinnacle Studio 16.

I have not yet tried Pinnacle Studio for 3D video editing but know people who use it and like it. Have to try it!

I am presently using Vegas Movie Studio 12 for 3D video editing and it has been a solid performer for me.

I also use Magix Movie Edit Pro version 18 (MEP) which I like a lot. The newer version, MEP 2013 Pro was introduced last fall but had some problems with the 3D features in particular. However, MEP 2013 also runs about twice as fast for many functions such as MP4 encoding.  There have also been at least two updates since last fall that fixed most of the problems.  I like the user interface for MEP – and especially like its 3D pair auto synchronization feature.

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