Reference Manual

280 Working with Video
21.2 The Appearance of Video in Live
21.2.1 Video Clips in the Arrangement View
A video clip in the Arrangement View looks just like an audio clip, except for the “sprocket holes“
in its title bar.
A Video Clip with a QuickTime Marker.
Live also displays a movie file’s QuickTime markers, if present, in the Arrangement View and Clip
View. QuickTime markers are created by external video authoring applications, and although
they cannot be selected or edited in any way by Live, they do provide visual cues that can be
helpful when scoring. Note that these markers are always read from the original movie file, and
are not stored in the Live Set or video clip.
For the most part, video clips in the Arrangement View are treated just like audio clips. They can
be trimmed, for example, by dragging their right or left edges. However, there are some edit-
ing commands that, when applied to a video clip, will cause it to be replaced by an audio clip
(which by definition has no video component). This replacement only occurs internally — your
original movie files are never altered. The commands which will cause this are: Consolidate,
Reverse and Crop.