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CHAPTER 19. WORKING WITH VIDEO 243
1. Make sure that Live's Arrangement View is visible. Your computer keyboard's
key will toggle between the Session View and Arrangement View.
2. Drag a QuickTime movie from Live's File Browser and drop it into an audio track
in the Arrangement View. The Video Window will appear to display the video
component of the movie le. (Remember that you can move this window to any
convenient location on the screen.)
3. Now that the video clip is loaded, drag an audio clip into the Arrangement View's
drop area. A new track will automatically be created for it. Unfold both tracks so
you can see their contents by clicking the buttons to the left of their names.
4. Double-click on the video clip's title bar to view it in the Clip View. In the Sample
box, make sure that the Warp button is enabled. Warped clips in the Arrange-
ment View can be set as tempo master or slave. We want the Master/Slave
switch set to Master, which will force the rest of the clips in the Live Set to adapt
to the video clip's tempo (i.e., its normal playback rate).
5. Now add Warp Markers to the video clip, and adjust them to your liking. The
locations of the Warp Markers dene the synchronizing points between our music
and our video. Notice how the video clip's waveform in the Arrangement View
updates to reect your changes as you make them.
6. If desired, enable the Arrangement Loop to focus on a specic section of the
composition.
7. When you have nished, choose the Render to Disk command from Live's File
menu. All of your audio will be mixed down and saved as a single audio le,
which can then be imported into your chosen video authoring program.
19.4 Video Trimming Tricks
Commonly, composers receive movie les with a few seconds of blank space before the
real beginning of the action. This pre-roll (two-beep) serves as a sync reference for
the mixing engineer, who expects that the composer's audio les will also include the same
pre-roll. While working on music, however, the pre-roll is in the composer's way: It would be