Magix Edit Pro 11 Video Export

[dbz_gurlz89]

When I load amv's i just fool around with the setting to make it become better quality but I still havent perfected it. What is the best file to export and what are the best settings for that file.

Up until now, Ive been doing MPG export, not MP4, should I be doing that instead?

Interlacing seems to be the problem with me, what can I do to get rid of it? and make the footage become so much more cleaner and none fuzzy?

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.. well, the best way to clean your Video is to use Virtual Dub and erase the errors like Fuzz and Sub-titles .. and, yes -- you can frame-serve from VirtualDub-to-Magix-to-VirtualDubMOD for the cleanest .MKv's possible without using MEgui.

.. De-Interlacing is better handled by VirtualDub than Magix because VirtualDub has filters that can be fine tuned to your Video while all Magic's allows are 6 options:
right click on the Video Line in question, "Ctrl + E" and you get this ..

.. .. .. T_T .. .. .. ~_~ .. .. .. not very useful and it doesn't work all that great either >_<
.. ok, it does alright if its NTSC or ASTC but its useless for PAL & others.

..and, yea, you need to apply deinterlacing to all clips involved in your video.
Why am I soo bummed-out, this is one of those area's where Magix could have excelled in and instead we get a LAME C++ looking interface that does next to nothing >_<

[808-buma]

the best way to improve your footage prior to editing is to pre-clean it using AVISynth rather than trying to do so with Magix MEP-11 or virtualdub/mod (although VDMod is better at it than MEP-11 is, I believe). In this way, you can customize your video clips (as sometimes, not all scenes respond to the same kind of cleaning in the same way).

AVISynth is a bit difficult to get a grasp of at first as it isn't as intuitive as there is no GUI to play with or fiddle with (or is there one out there that I don't know about?) but it is a very powerful tool once you get the hang of it. If you haven't you should read AbsoluteDestiny & ErMaC's Technical Guides to All Things Audio and Video mk2 - especially this section dealing with improving video quality and this section dealing with interlacing

hope this helps

[Phantasmagoriat]

x2 yeah, for the most part, I don't use Magix for anything but editing and effects.

What is the best file to export and what are the best settings for that file?

The best export file you can possibly have is "Anything Lossless." [Uncompressed, HUFFYUV.avi, Lagarith.avi...] In theory the results should be the same, but with different formats and file sizes. So what determines quality then? What you feed Magix; HQ in = HQ out. crap in = crap out. So I suggest you import Clean HUFFYUV.avi file(s), and you will get a Clean HUFFYUV.avi export... or whatever lossless combination you want. It is well worth it if you have the space. You don't have to clean your whole source though... just the clips you need.
[How? vdub+avisynth]

Up until now, Ive been doing MPG export, not MP4, should I be doing that instead?

I've never made a fully functional .mp4 file from Magix; I'm not sure it's possible >.> Just export as a lossless .avi file [LARGE], and if you want a shiny x264.mp4 file, just re-compress with meGUI or Zarx's program that comes with the beta AMVapp, which doesn't come with the regular AMVapp. [pick one guide/app]

Interlacing seems to be the problem with me, what can I do to get rid of it? and make the footage become so much more cleaner and none fuzzy?

for interlacing, you generally want to deinterlace beforehand with vdub+avisynth [see buma's links]; If you feed Magix interlaced footage, you may have trouble deinterlacing afterwards, especially if you alter the footage since it might mess up the fields [ex. with zooms/pans etc...]. And always export as Progressive under Interlaced mode, or you'll just be reinterlacing something that you spent time deinterlacing

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.. I've never made a fully functional .mp4 file from Magix; I'm not sure it's possible ..

.. no, its not .. the whole concept behind Magix is to make a CD/DVD.

[Phantasmagoriat]

.. I've never made a fully functional .mp4 file from Magix; I'm not sure it's possible ..

.. no, its not .. the whole concept behind Magix is to make a CD/DVD.

yeah, didn't think so : (

[dbz_gurlz89]

wait im confused, wats the difference between AVISynth and VirtualDub?

[Phantasmagoriat]

click that first link I gave you.

In short, I like to think that avisynth does all the work [processing, filtering, rendering etc...] to the footage in the background, then you use vdub as an interface to look at what avisynth made.

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