Magic Music Visuals

Lately, while running Magic 2.5 on my Mac, when I walk away for a bit and then come back to my desk, I find Magic to be locked up to the point of requiring a force quit. Out of nowhere, this started happening every day. It has happened with both simple and complex projects, and with projects that sh...

This is fantastic. I had no idea.

I use the VVMotionBlur to smooth out slideshow transitions. It's pretty effective.

Screenshot 2026-03-19 at 10.52.51 AM.png I'm feeding video into a buffer and scrubbing through it using audioreactive controls. When value drops to zero, new video is introduced into the buffer. As is often the case with audioreactive stuff, it's agressively animated. Using PEAK is helpful in tamin...

I quickly decided that having anything audio-reactive was distracting, even if it was very subtle. Lots of people watch YouTube on televisions, where motion can feel like an assault. I produce a book podcast, and try to quickly whip up something bespoke for each episode. We're a pretty popular show ...

It appears that Rosetta won't be with us much longer, so it's either going to have to go native ARM or abandon MacOS.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/HWRs0ID

I suspect Magic might not actually be the source of the problem, but I wonder if there's anywhere I can go spelunking to figure out what might be going on.

I've used Magic for years and have never encountered this problem before. My input sources aren't receiving audio, or at least, the audio isn't making it to the feature I'm trying to animate. I'm able to hear the audio and I'm able to select it in the input sources section. I've tried closing the au...