Magix Movie Edit Pro 11

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Magix Movie Edit Pro 11

Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:07 am

I've been working with Magix for several months and have noticed a frustrating chronic problem.

After I save a project *regardless of size* and exit the program, when I come back and open my saved file, the first half of it is missing. Now this is r-e-a-l-l-y frustrating to have hours worth of work just be cut out. In the timeline and storyline view I can still see where the clips were, how long they were, and even where I got them from! But the video clips themselves are gone.

When I first got it it only took HUGE bites out of the middle of the file. Now that it has been reinstalled it only takes the front. I bought this program based off of rave reviews from people here. Yeah... not doing that again. Any help at all would be much appreciated!!
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It never ends...

Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:48 am

Now when I try and open the file, it says that the 'object is longer than physical sample' about 50 times. So after clicking either continue or cancel 50 times, it lets me see my botched file. >_>
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Postby Kalium » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:51 am

It sounds like you're doing something screwey to your video source files, and Magix can't find them anymore. Or maybe you're using something screwey, like a fansub, as source and the interframe compression is throwing off Magix.
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Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:53 am

I captured the video from the television via Ulead I believe and just opened the captured files and cut from there. After that it was simply copy paste. It still doesn't explain why the first half was cut when all the clips were gathered and treated the same way.
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Postby Kalium » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:14 pm

I suggest you make sure that nothing has happened to your source video files.
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Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:18 pm

I've already checked- they're all fine. Maybe it's some sort of paging problem because of the 'object is larger...' bit.
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Postby Kalium » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:27 pm

That could be. There is a limit to how large the paging file can get. If you attempt to exceed that, I would expect some odd issues.
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Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:29 pm

Now I just wonder how to fix that... >_<
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Postby Kalium » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:54 pm

You're going to have to do the video in parts, I think. Each segment coming in under the size restrictions.
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Postby 808-buma » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:11 pm

Hmm, the first vid I made was directly with an mpeg file. I created smaller mpegs clips instead of using the whole video and didn't run into any problems (but of course I use MEP-10 pro).

Well, this will probably NOT help you here, but this is a suggestion for the future.

I suggest you do the following:
1. I am assuming that you captured your source as an mpeg file. I suggest you index it with DGIndex (either the whole mpeg, or you can do clips) to a d2v file.
2. from there, convert the d2v files to a lossless AVI file (such as Huffyuv or Lagarith) using VirtualDubMod and use this to make your vid.

hope this helps
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Postby concordiadiscors » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:40 pm

I really don't know what to do. I've watched the tutorial videos (as -helpful- as those were), read the help manual, gone all over the internet, made countless trial runs, and tweaked various settings.

I'm so fed up with this product that I'm seriously thinking of uninstalling it and breaking the CDs into a thousand little peices and then burning them for all the trouble the're causing me. If I had $ 500 I'd happily buy a high end product without a second thought- but I don't. So... I'm stuck between Magix and Windows.

So I'm quitting. It's not worth all the hours of research and trouble over the course of several months. This product is just a peice of crap and I'm giving up.
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Postby 808-buma » Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:04 pm

here's another suggestion - work on your vid again and get it to where you had it in one session - put all the work into it as you need to get it to a point where you can export it as a lossless AVI file and then close your original movie forever.

Now, open up a new movie file, import it and do what i suggested in the post above, and it should work much better for you.

hope this helps
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