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by dani72
Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Creating A VU Meter
Replies: 2
Views: 1474

Re: Creating A VU Meter

Get a second opinion... https://bartman88.blogspot.com/2016/12/5-free-audio-vu-meter-software-for-your.html Thanks. I tried a couple of VU Meters and it's hard to tell exactly but I'm pretty sure the volume levels are showing too high in Magic. I'll have to see if there's a way to fix that. I suppo...
by dani72
Sat Apr 23, 2022 3:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Creating A VU Meter
Replies: 2
Views: 1474

Creating A VU Meter

For a couple of the tracks I was putting on YT I decided to do a video containing all the main elements of Magic. I included a stereo EQ, stereo waves & a timer. I also made a VU meter of sorts. I created an image resembling a level meter and used scale & translate to have it react to the vo...
by dani72
Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Program really small on 4K monitor
Replies: 2
Views: 1966

Re: Program really small on 4K monitor

Thanks for that. I should have thought of looking at the user guide. :oops:
by dani72
Wed Sep 29, 2021 6:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Program really small on 4K monitor
Replies: 2
Views: 1966

Program really small on 4K monitor

I bought a new 4K monitor ( this one ) and now when I go into Magic everything is very small. The text is hard to read and the windows are too small. I've tried increasing the scaling in Windows 10 but while it's made a difference to other programs (GIMP, Nero Video etc.) Magic is still the same. Is...
by dani72
Fri Nov 13, 2020 2:33 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Video looping
Replies: 1
Views: 2939

Video looping

I would like to see a feature under videos for a transition effect when looping. It would be useful if I want to use a background video that doesn't actually loop but would look OK with blur fade (or some other transition) each time it goes back to the beginning. Also it would be good to have more t...
by dani72
Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using Magic on another device
Replies: 2
Views: 1892

Re: Using Magic on another device

Eric wrote:That's exactly what this page is for: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/licenseDeactivation
It would help if I actually searched your website properly. :oops:

My laptop has a lower spec then the PC but does have a dedicated 4gb graphics card so hopefully it should work fine.

Thanks for your help.
by dani72
Thu Sep 03, 2020 7:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Using Magic on another device
Replies: 2
Views: 1892

Using Magic on another device

The PSU on my PC died last weekend :( I have no idea when my PC is going to be back up and running as I'm getting the PSU replaced under warranty. Is there any way I can use Magic on my Laptop in the meantime? I only have one licence but obviously can't use it on my usual device. I also can't get in...
by dani72
Mon Jun 15, 2020 8:24 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Processor Upgrade
Replies: 6
Views: 3379

Re: Processor Upgrade

That's a very expensive upgrade! I suspect it would only give a relatively small performance increase, and might prove very poor value for money. I suggest trying to see what the CPU usage is during your long exports. Windows Resource Monitor can show you CPU usage for each virtual CPU core. A quic...
by dani72
Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:10 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Processor Upgrade
Replies: 6
Views: 3379

Re: Processor Upgrade

Eric wrote:If the exports you did are representative of the work you usually do, then obviously your hard drives are both fast enough and aren’t the limiting factor in the export speed.
Ah OK. That makes sense. Thanks for all your help.
by dani72
Fri Jun 12, 2020 5:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Processor Upgrade
Replies: 6
Views: 3379

Re: Processor Upgrade

Very hard to say. Magic's exporting speed is dependent on a combination of the GPU, the CPU, and the hard drive. If you already have a very fast GPU and hard drive, you might notice a speed increase if the CPU is the bottleneck, because exporting can be very CPU intensive, depending on the codec. B...
by dani72
Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:01 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Processor Upgrade
Replies: 6
Views: 3379

Processor Upgrade

I bought a custom PC through PC Specialist in 2017. It has an overclocked i7-800k Intel processor. I can upgrade to a i9-900k through PCS at a cost of €570. I mostly use the PC for video editing through Magic. I sometimes create longer videos (60-75 mins) that can take a while export. What I'm wonde...
by dani72
Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:57 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Text Effects
Replies: 5
Views: 5698

Re: Text Effects

Rather than specifically for text, this drop shadow method, and many other effects, can be applied to any element. For example "Stylise->Edges" will give you thin outline and Erode a thicker outline which can be applied over the original text. You can make glows by blurring and applying t...
by dani72
Sat Feb 29, 2020 5:29 pm
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Text Effects
Replies: 5
Views: 5698

Re: Text Effects

Although not the 'built-in" option that you requested, Eric had a couple of suggestions for drop-shadow that I have found useful. https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1002&p=4516&hilit=Drop+shadow#p4516 Thanks for that. That info is from 2016 so obviously for an...
by dani72
Fri Feb 28, 2020 11:29 am
Forum: Feature Requests
Topic: Text Effects
Replies: 5
Views: 5698

Text Effects

It would be great to have some more text effects in Magic. Things like drop shadow or outline & gradient colours would be useful to have. I have used some workarounds such as ghosting for drop shadow but it's not quite the same thing as the "shadow" doesn't all go in the same direction...
by dani72
Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PixelateGrid
Replies: 2
Views: 3423

Re: PixelateGrid

Sadler wrote:Create a new scene and call it Horizontal Lines and create this:
horizontal_lines.png
Then in your spectrum scene, mask the spectrum with the scene you just created.
That's great! With a bit of tweaking that worked well. Thanks for you help.
by dani72
Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: PixelateGrid
Replies: 2
Views: 3423

PixelateGrid

HI, I'm trying to recreate something like this video: https://youtu.be/ZZQ_FG3_QjE The thing is when I use PixelateGrid with spectrum It never works right. See the images below for example. There are always gaps in the spectrum and it doesn't seem to matter how many pixels I choose as I still end up...
by dani72
Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:39 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Moving "Smooth Beat" Visual around.
Replies: 2
Views: 3301

Re: Moving "Smooth Beat" Visual around.

Looks like the final trails in the main scene is interacting with your text. Put your translate after that. I didn't have any trails on the main scene (or anywhere else for that matter) but when I add them and put the translate after that it seems to work OK. It's strange because I didn't necessari...
by dani72
Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:56 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Moving "Smooth Beat" Visual around.
Replies: 2
Views: 3301

Moving "Smooth Beat" Visual around.

This may be a really stupid question but I'm trying to recreate parts of the video below for use in one of my own projects. The problem is that I want the visual, circular image and text to be on the right of the screen as I have an image on the left (the artwork for the track that's currently playi...
by dani72
Wed Oct 09, 2019 4:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Iterator leading to longer export?
Replies: 3
Views: 4109

Re: Iterator leading to longer export?

Did you actually finish the export with the older one though? Sometimes the estimate for the time remaining is not fully accurate at the very beginning of the export. I would be surprised if a 74 minute video could be exported in 1 hour because usually the export is not as fast as real-time. No I d...
by dani72
Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:07 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Iterator leading to longer export?
Replies: 3
Views: 4109

Iterator leading to longer export?

Does the iterator lead to longer export times? I exported a 74 minute video earlier today (twice in fact) and it took 3hrs to export. It used the 30 band EQ with Iterator (from the sample projects). My videos never took that long to export and sure enough when I tried the same audio with an older vi...
by dani72
Tue May 28, 2019 4:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Video loops & scene changes
Replies: 2
Views: 2478

Re: Video loops & scene changes

That's great. I use scene modules all the time but had never thought of using them in this instance.

Thanks Eric.
by dani72
Mon May 27, 2019 7:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Video loops & scene changes
Replies: 2
Views: 2478

Video loops & scene changes

I have a background video which loops while magic visuals are blended with it using the Blend module. I want to have other elements change in a number of scenes but keep the background video continuously playing without restarting with every scene change. Is this possible?
by dani72
Thu May 09, 2019 4:54 pm
Forum: User-Submitted Videos
Topic: The Midiator and "la boite à coucou"
Replies: 7
Views: 10770

Re: The Midiator and "la boite à coucou"

Wow they are some seriously good videos. Thanks for sharing.
by dani72
Sat Apr 20, 2019 10:27 am
Forum: User-Submitted Videos
Topic: Some of my music Videos
Replies: 0
Views: 4552

Some of my music Videos

So first off I need to preface this by saying that I am in no way as good with Magic as most of the people who post on here. On my YouTube channel (shameless plug coming up) House Music All Night Long I try to incorporate the artwork for the release the tracks came from into the video. This is one o...
by dani72
Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Edge Feathering
Replies: 3
Views: 3117

Re: Edge Feathering

Never mind. I figured it out. I just use scale to make the polygon smaller. :oops:

Thanks for all your help Eric :D
by dani72
Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Edge Feathering
Replies: 3
Views: 3117

Re: Edge Feathering

An edge feather is really just a mask with a blurred rectangle. Try Polygon -> Fast Blur -> Mask, and then the thing you want to mask is the other input to the Mask module. Hmmm... that only seems to work if it's a large image. The images I was trying to use edge feathering on were 600 x 600 and we...
by dani72
Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Edge Feathering
Replies: 3
Views: 3117

Edge Feathering

Is there any way to do edge feathering in Magic? I searched the forums and all I came across was https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=345&p=1373&hilit=feathering#p1373 , which is quite an old post. I used it in some earlier videos of my house mixes by importing my Mag...
by dani72
Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sample projects
Replies: 3
Views: 2804

Re: Sample projects

Thanks for that. I did search the forums before posting but didn't find the link you've shared.
by dani72
Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Sample projects
Replies: 3
Views: 2804

Sample projects

Are there sample projects available for any of the videos on https://magicmusicvisuals.com/video?

I'd love to see how some of the effects on the first video (more spectrum effects) were created.
by dani72
Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:17 pm
Forum: User-Submitted Videos
Topic: Animated logo
Replies: 8
Views: 12940

Re: Animated logo

That's really good. It's interesting to see the different uses for Magic besides music videos.
by dani72
Mon Feb 18, 2019 8:13 pm
Forum: User-Submitted Videos
Topic: Live visuals over hardware synths
Replies: 1
Views: 3451

Re: Live visuals over hardware synths

Those videos are very good! Thanks for sharing.
by dani72
Sat Feb 16, 2019 7:42 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: youtube crunching the video
Replies: 20
Views: 16782

Re: youtube crunching the video

FWIW one thing I find useful to do is to upload the video as private initially and give it at least 4-5 hours or even overnight (depending on the size of the video) before making it public. Although YouTube may say that the video is fully processed it often takes a while more before it looks right. ...
by dani72
Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:44 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Few Annoyances
Replies: 3
Views: 3039

Re: A Few Annoyances

It's "incredibly frustrating" for me when users don't take a few seconds to search the User's Guide or the forums before posting . viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1341&p=6223#p6223 Fair enough but as one of the people in that post suggested it would be useful if the undo function could unhide...
by dani72
Mon Dec 10, 2018 10:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A Few Annoyances
Replies: 3
Views: 3039

A Few Annoyances

I love Magic and use it all the time but I have a few annoyances. When using start times I set each scene to appear when I want it to (usually to coincide with changes in the music). I assume that when I set the last scene to appear at (for example) 62 minutes then it will play through to the end of...
by dani72
Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Exported Video Looks Different To Preview
Replies: 3
Views: 3034

Re: Exported Video Looks Different To Preview

Terry Payman wrote:Try setting the Scale to "Fit Height" on all four Image modules.
At the moment only one has this scaling set, so when you export to a lower resolution the other three unscaled images will be relatively larger.
Sorry that was my mistake. I don't know how I missed that.

Thanks!
by dani72
Mon Jun 11, 2018 4:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Exported Video Looks Different To Preview
Replies: 3
Views: 3034

Exported Video Looks Different To Preview

I created a video with the same image appearing 4 times, evenly placed on both sides of the screen. When I go to export the movie three of the images are bigger and so the video doesn't look right. See the screenshots I attached.

Any idea why this is happening? Is there anything I can do to solve it?
by dani72
Mon May 28, 2018 4:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Keeping file sizes down
Replies: 2
Views: 2421

Re: Keeping file sizes down

Well, if you look at the math, there are 8 bits in a byte. So your background video is 8 * 321 = 2568 megabits. Divide that by 404 seconds (6:44) and you get 6.35 megabits/sec. So that's what you should set for your exported video if you want it to be 321 MB. The thing is, Magic creates videos that...
by dani72
Sun May 27, 2018 11:09 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Keeping file sizes down
Replies: 2
Views: 2421

Keeping file sizes down

I created a video which was 6:44 in length. I used a background video I created in Nero Video which was 321 MB. When I export the video with the visuals in Magic using the same resolution (720p) and Frame Rate (60fps) it ends up over 1 GB in size. I tried dropping the Mbits/sec to 70 but the file st...
by dani72
Sun May 13, 2018 1:40 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Moving an images position
Replies: 2
Views: 2751

Re: Moving an images position

steffey wrote:Translate is the function you are looking for...
Capture4334.JPG
Ah perfect. Thanks for your quick response. I'm more used to Nero Video where you can just click and drag images around the screen.
by dani72
Sun May 13, 2018 1:06 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Moving an images position
Replies: 2
Views: 2751

Moving an images position

Is it possible to move the position of an image? Maybe I'm being stupid as I'm new to the program but I can't see the option anywhere. I have a small transparent logo that I want to position in the top left hand corner of the video. I only seem to be able scale the image but not move where it is in ...