Effects menu

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Movie effect settings

This menu item accesses the Movie effects settings. The settings affected here apply to the entire movie.

Video object effects

  • Scene recognition: Opens the automatic Scene recognition function, which "cuts up" longer videos into individual scenes.

  • Edit in Photo Designer: Graphics files (BMPs or JPEGs) can be edited retroactively with an external graphics program within the project window. The selected image file will be loaded automatically and used in Movie Studio in place of the original material automatically.

  • Create panorama: Opens the dialog for setting a panorama. Place as many photos in the correct order as you like, and align brightness and color settings to get the best results. You should make sure that the photos harmonize at the transitions.

  • Video effects: Here you can find adjustable effects for video and photo objects. The effects can be set only after selecting an object in the respective effects dialog. For more information, please see Video effects.

  • Movement effects: These are movement effects you can use to animate the frame by using zoom and camera movements.

  • Movement effect templates: Drag and drop to load templates for movements into the project.

  • Section: Places video objects in a particular part of the screen. Find out more under Video effects.

  • Stereo3D: Find out more about Stereo3D functionality in the Stereo3D section.

  • Background design: Select a color, a picture, or any video on your hard disk, which you would like to serve as the background for the photo displayed. This function is especially useful when photos have black bars around them, or if they are reduced in size.

  • Reset background: Resets the background design settings to default settings.

  • Use as background: Uses the selected photo and video as the background.

  • Load video effects: This command enables a saved effects combination to be loaded for the currently loaded object. If multiple objects are selected, then the effects combination will be applied to each selected object.

  • Save video effects: This command saves the current effects combination for each object separately.

  • Reset video effects: This option allows you to deactivate all currently used effects. The material will be reset to the state it was in before you applied the effect.

  • Copy video effects: Effects settings for an object may be copied to the clipboard to add them to other objects.

  • Paste video effects: Video effects may be inserted into the selected object from other objects. The settings must be copied to the clipboard beforehand to do so.

  • Apply video effects to all: The current effects settings will be applied to all scenes and photos in your movie.

  • Apply video effects to all of the following: The current effects settings will be applied to all scenes and photos in your movie which lie behind the selected object.

Audio object effects

  • Normalize (maximum level): The function "Normalize" raises the level of an audio object to the maximum possible level without clipping the material. This searches for the largest signal peak in the audio material and raises the level of the object so that this position matches exactly 0 dB (maximum overdrive).

  • Normalize (EBU R128): EBU R128 is a transceiver standard that normalizes the audio signal to -23 LUFS (loudness units relative to the digital full level). Unlike normalizing to the maximum level, this provides enough upward space for temporarily loud signals. This is used, for example, by cinema productions and classical recordings.

  • Adjust loudness of selected objects: Regardless of the standard level, the sound levels of the selected objects are compared with each other with respect to volume. The clicked object is used as the reference.

  • Set volume: This function, located in both the effects menu and the context menu, control the sound volume for individual objects, just like the object handles in the project window.

  • Volume reduction: Read more about this in Volume reduction.

  • Audio leaning: Opens the Audio cleaning dialog.

  • Echo/Reverb: Read the sections Echo and Reverb for more information.

  • Timestretch/Resample: Read more about this in Timestretch/Resample.

  • Load audio effects: This command enables a saved effects combination to be loaded for the currently loaded object. If multiple objects are selected, then the effects combination will be applied to each selected object.

  • Save audio effects: This command saves the current effects combination for each object separately.

  • Reset audio effects: This option allows you to deactivate all currently used effects. The material will be reset to the state it was in before you applied the effect.

  • BPM Wizard: Read more about this topic in Musical editing adjustment.

  • Edit wave externally: This opens the audio track or audio object in the included audio editor MAGIX Music Editor.

  • Volume curve: You can access the volume here. This is also located in the Media Pool under "Effects > Audio effects > General" and can be animated.

Title effects

  • Title editor: Opens the title editor.

  • Load title template: Use this command to load previously saved title effects for the current object.

  • Save title template: You can save the current effect combination for each title object separately and apply it to other title objects later.

Design elements

  • Picture-in-picture: These are various effects presets for image stacking.

  • Collages: These work similarly to normal picture-in-picture effects but more objects are used. Depending on the collage, arrange the selected objects one after the other and drag the collage onto the first object.

  • Test images: These are professional test images for calibrating your system.

  • Backgrounds: Here you can find static and animated photo and video backgrounds. Video backgrounds are capable of being looped, meaning that their length can be extended by duplication. The special "custom" template opens a color selection dialog where you can choose the desired color.

  • Image objects: These are various image objects like black bars, thought bubbles for cartoons, etc.

You can find additional information in the section "Design elements in Media Pool".

Effects library

Using these menu choices you can control the corresponding folders with the Media Pool.