Magix movie edit pro 2021

[browj2]

Hi Brett,

Where do you see the offer for Movie Edit Pro (MEP) 2021? I know that Magix still sells older versions and I've seen this on their site, but I just can't find it.

A year or so ago, Magix renamed Movie Edit Pro to Magix Movie Studio. This was because the Vegas team suddenly dropped Vegas Movie Studio to concentrate on Vegas Pro (good idea). As a result, Magix stepped in and created a version of MEP that could import Vegas MS project files but objects on the timeline only, no effects, and called it Magix Movie Studio. They finally just dropped the MEP and called it all Magix Movie Studio, starting with 2022, with flavours of basic, Platinum and Suite. You can see the comparison table on the Magix.com site. Never purchase basic. These are comparable to MEP basic, Plus and Premium. The Suite (or Premium) program is identical to the Platinum (Plus) version, the difference being additional third party plugins/software.

For the non-English European community, the program is still called VideoDeluxe.

As well, starting with 2022, Magix overhauled some features, mainly the View/Animation (Size/Position/Rotation), which was incomplete and added in a bunch of bugs. These were mostly sorted out with 2023. Furthermore, the program requires more computing power, so it is very important to determine what you have vs what is needed for smooth (it will never really be smooth) editing.

I suggest that you post on the Magix.info forum and include details about your operating system and hardware, the nature of the source video material that you will be using (full HD, 4K, from cell phone, screen captures, etc.), and the gurus there can help guide you. Video files from cell phones and screen capture programs are notorious for using variable frame rates and video editing programs do not like working with these.

[handrawn]

thanks john, thought that might be the case

one member who uses magix video programs

[Biggles]

Hi browj2, appreciate your reply.
I own Magix XARA web designer & Magix emailed me that MEP 2021 is available at us$9.99 until 25 April.
I am looking for a video editor to add sound, title, cut, splice videos typically taken from a mobile phone. This is for a golfing group being run for 47 years, so don't really need anything too fancy.

I note that Magix Movie Studio 2023 Suite is available for us$39.99 - would that be a better purchase for me?

[browj2]

Hi,

That offering is for the basic version of MEP2021. You will quickly run into limitations because it's missing many features that most video editing users find necessary. If they were offering Plus or Premium, then that would be very good.

Getting Movie Studio 2023 Platinum or Suite would be much better. However, as I mentioned, the hardware processing requirements are higher. You should post on the Magix.info forum and let the gurus there guide you. Also, you can download and install the trial version of Platinum and test it to see if it works with your hardware. There are some codec limitations, but you will get a good idea if the program will work. The current prices are really excellent. Version 2024 must be getting closer. I have some tutorials on my YouTube site that will help you get started.

[amoore]

I'm moving this thread to Off-topic Chat. Feel free to continue the discussion there.

[Biggles]

Thank you browj2, you have confirmed my suspicions, I greatly appreciate your advice.
Tried to get onto magix forum but their registration seemed to not be working. Will try again today.
My system is ok, Inspiron 5770, i7 intel processor 1.99GHz, 16GB ram on windows 10.
To look you up on YouTube do I just google browj2?

[browj2]

Try looking up on YT using this:

@JCBrownVideos

My site should pop up as the first one.

What is the rest of the information for the Intel i7 chip? Look under Windows settings, system, About.

[Biggles]

Hi browj2,
My chip is Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GHz
Have bought web designer 19 premium as an upgrade as it came with video editor 2021, but that editor seems very basic.
Movie Studio 2023 looks better but specs say it needs a 2.4 processor as a minimum. It may not run on my laptop?

[browj2]

@Biggles

Hi,

It looks reasonable to me. The 1.8 is the base frequency with max. turbo of 4 GHz.

I suggest that you download the trial of Movie Studio 2023 Suite and give it a try.

Again, you should post on the Magix.com forum.