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Table Of Contents

Copyright
Foreword
Support
Serial number
- Unlocking MAGIX Video Pro X2
System requirements
Introduction
- What is MAGIX Video Pro X2?
- What’s new in MAGIX Video Pro X2?
- Features
- Notes for MAGIX Movie Edit Pro users
Quick start
- Starting the program and orientation
- DV recording
- How to capture analog video
- Video editing
- Enriching movies
Workspaces
- Activating the main screen
- Media Pool
- Toolbars
- Program and source monitor
- Arranger
- Project folder
- Adjusting the workspace
- The "Burn" screen
Create new video project
- Movie settings
- New project settings or new movie
- Load project
- Save project
- Save project as...
Video recording
- Connect camera
- Select the recording method
- DV cameras
- HDV camera
- Batch recording
- Logging
- Analog video recording
- Single frame
- Audio
- Screen
- Recording AVCHD
- Edit after recording
- Creating new movies or attaching them
Insert object into the project
- Select files in the Media Pool
- Load files
- Loading parts of longer movie files
- MPEG-4 import
- Automatic scene detection
Working with objects
- Select objects
- Moving objects
- Splitting objects
- Edit menu
- Duplicate objects
- Object handles
- Shrink or interlace videos
- Extract sound from videos
- Save objects separately
- Video mix
- Magnetic objects
- Transitions (fades)
- Scene overview
- Grid and snap
- Search for and remove ads
Trim Objects
- General advice for operating both trim editors
- Trimmer for individual objects
- Cut trimmer
Markers
- Playback marker
- Set project marker
- Ranges (in and out points)
- Chapter markers
- Scene markers
- Ad markers
Multicam editing
- Preparation
- Source and preview images
- Multicam edit functions
- Synchronize video objects using the sound track
Titles and effects
- 3D text
- Apply fades
- Apply effects to objects
- Comparison image in the source monitor
- Video effects in the Media Pool
- Movement effects in the Media Pool
- Video effect plug-ins
- Image stabilization
- Create panorama pictures
- Borders
- Title Editor
- Slideshow Maker
- Master effects
- TV picture
- Audio Effects
Animate objects
- Preparing animations
- Place keyframe
- Copy keyframe
- Display keyframes of individual parameters
- Retroactively editing an effect's keyframes
- Soft movement
- Delete keyframe
- Editing an effects curve in the object
- Change curve shape
- Effects curves - Additional functions
Add sound
- Load and edit audio files
- Import audio CD
- MAGIX Soundtrack Maker
- Tempo and beat recognition
- Adding a sound track using MIDI songs
- Synthesizer
- Mixer
- Audio effects
- 5.1 Surround
- Using DVD audio tracks
- Scrubbing
- Mix down of audio objects
Managing video projects
- Backup copy
- Load backup project...
- Importing & exporting EDL files
- Clean-up wizard
Options for using the final movie
- Create playable disc
- Export movie
- Export audio/video
Burn discs
- Preview and editing
- Menu
- Templates
- Edit disc menu
- Burn dialog for DVD player
- Create PC show
- Create webDVD
Batch conversion
- Open batch conversion
- Administration
- Queued entries for batch conversion
- Format settings for the selected conversion process
- Shut down PC automatically after successful export
- Start batch conversion
Menus
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Effects (FX)
- Windows menu
- Help menu
Context menu (right click)
- Video objects
- Image objects
- Transitions
- Audio objects
- Text objects
- MAGIX 3D Maker objects
Program settings
- Playback
- Path settings
- Video/Audio
- System
- Display templates
- Display options
Problems and solutions
- File will not load
- Choppy or uneven playback
- Problems and Remedies regarding the Auto Remix Assistant
- Activation problems
Online functions
- Integrated browser
- MAGIX News Center
- Embed Flash videos into your own web page
Keyboard shortcuts
- Playback functions
- Arranger view
- Move view
- Transport control in Media pool
- Mouse modes
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Effects menu
- Window menu
- Help
- Edit keyboard shortcut
Activate additional functions
- Free activation (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Dolby Digital 2.0 & 5.1)
Annex: Digital Video and Data Storage
- Video Editing on the PC
- MPEG Compression
- General notes on AVI videos
- Overview of the different disc types
MPEG-4 encoder settings
- MPEG-4
- AVC / H.264
- AMR
- AAC
- Multiplexer
Appendix: MPEG Encoder Settings
- General settings
- Video settings
- Advanced video settings
- Audio settings
MPEG glossary
- Motion estimation
- Bit rate
- Block
- Chroma format
- Field
- Frame
- GOP
- I frames
- Interlace
- P frames and B frames
- Prediction
- Quantization scaling
If you still have questions...
- Program help
Index

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Dest delay (90 kHz)..................................................................................... 294

Determining the start of a measure ............................................................. 158

Digital Audio Meter ..................................................................................... 147

Digital Versatile Disc (DVD).......................................................................... 279

Direction and time....................................................................................... 117

DirectX Plug Ins .......................................................................................... 166

Display keyframes of individual parameters ................................................. 149

Display tool tips .......................................................................................... 232

play track curves.................................................................................... 246

Distortion.................................................................................................... 113

DV recording ................................................................................................ 25

Disable effects ............................................................................................ 247

Disc options ............................................................................................... 201

Display options ........................................................................................... 260

Display settings .......................................................................................... 231

Display templates ....................................................................................... 259

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Dolby Surround .......................................................................................... 169

Dolby® Digital Details ................................................................................. 301

Drive list dialog ........................................................................................... 153

Drum & Bass machine 2.0 .......................................................................... 163

Dub ........................................................................................................ 17, 78

Dub individual languages ............................................................................ 174

Ducking........................................................................................ 80, 147, 228

Duplicate objects.................................................................................. 88, 220

DV................................................................................................................ 65

DV as MPEG ................................................................................................ 71

DV cameras.................................................................................................. 67

DV devices ................................................................................................... 67

DV export settings ...................................................................................... 191

DVD authoring with up to 8 audio tracks ....................................................... 17

DVD files (VOB) with multiple audio tracks ..................................................... 84

DVD with surround sound........................................................................... 169

Echo/Hall............................................................................................ 228, 244

Edit ............................................................................................................ 220

Edit after recording ....................................................................................... 82

Edit color ranges individually ....................................................................... 111

Edit disc menu............................................................................................ 200

Edit in external Editor.................................................................................. 226

Edit in MAGIX Video Pro X2 ........................................................................ 239

Edit keyboard shortcut................................................................................ 274

Edit Keyboard shortcut ............................................................................... 219

Edit menu..................................................................................... 87, 220, 272

Edit menu elements .................................................................................... 200

Edit settings................................................................................................ 250

Edit snap point ....................................................224, 235, 239, 243, 247, 250

Edit title ...................................................................................................... 125

Edit your own menu entries......................................................................... 205