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Table Of Contents
- Help contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Support
- Before you start
- More about MAGIX
- Introduction
- Quick start
- Edit Fotoshow
- Start and end markers
- Overview mode
- Storyboard mode
- Timeline mode
- The "Burn" interface
- Media Pool
- Fades
- Titles
- Effects
- Record
- Transitions (fades)
- Effects
- Create panorama pictures
- MAGIX Soundtrack Maker
- Options for using the final movie
- Online functions
- Menus
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Effects (FX)
- Image optimization
- Distortion
- View & animation
- Design
- Rotate 90°
- Automatically cut to fit monitor
- Display duration...
- Edit image (external)...
- Create panorama image...
- Picture-in-picture collages
- Fades
- Background design
- Image stabilization
- Title Editor
- Save as title template...
- Convert to 3D titles...
- Sound optimization
- Adjust music to section
- Show/Hide
- Object properties
- Online menu
- Tasks menu
- Help menu
- General settings
- Folders
- Options
- Display
- Project- and slideshow-relevant settings
- Problems and solutions
- Activate additional functions
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Annex: Digital Video and Data Storage
- Appendix: MPEG Encoder Settings
- MPEG glossary
- If you still have questions...
Display
Video mode
Compatibility mode (video for Windows)
This mode works on all systems. Activate this mode if there are problems with playback.
Hardware acceleration (Direct 3D)
This mode offers extreme increase in speed by calculating mixing, effects, and various transitions the the
graphics card directly. Depending on the graphics card, performance can increase by 300%. The
graphics card will not be used during export.
Note!
To use this mode the graphics card must possess at least 128 MB memory. You will need to install
Direct 3D 9, or higher, and the graphics card driver must support "High Level Pixel Shader Language
2.0". MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 deluxe checks the corresponding properties when
this mode is selected and switches it off if necessary.
Alternative mode 1 (mixer overlay)
This mode performs hardware-based deinterlacing for output onto a PC screen or a projector, whereby
the playback quality is significantly better than with interlaced analog video recordings.
Alternative mode 2 (video mixing renderer 9)
This mode uses the hardware de-interlacing function of modern graphics cards together with DirectX 9.
Make sure that you are using the most recent version of your graphics card driver, which must be
compatible with DirectX 9 to function properly. This mode is only superior to "Overlay mixer" mode with
a limited number of graphics card models.
De-interlacing
In the DirectShow modes "Overlay mixer" and "Video mixing renderer 9", you can activate hardware
de-interlacing with your graphics card. For general information on de-interlacing and the options
"Top/Bottom field first", please read the corresponding article "De-interlacing
".
Image formation in Vertical Blank Intervals (VBI)
The image formation takes place in the vertical blank intervals of the monitor signal (or the connected TV
signal). This helps avoid image interruptions.
Warning
: Because of waiting time required for the next VBI, this process adds significant computational time!
For digital displays like the TFT monitors you can deactivate the option. In the Overlay mode image
formation occurs exclusively in VBI.
Project- and
slideshow-relevant settings
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