Reference Manual

283 Working with Video
2. Drag a QuickTime movie from Live’s browser and drop it into an audio track in the Ar-
rangement View. The Video Window will appear to display the video component of the
movie file. (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 Arrangement 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 define the synchronizing points between our music and our video.
Notice how the video clip’s waveform in the Arrangement View updates to reflect your
changes as you make them.
6. If desired, enable the Arrangement Loop (page 76) to focus on a specific section of the
composition.
7. When you have finished, choose the Export Audio/Video command from Live’s File menu.
All of your audio will be mixed down and saved as a single audio file. You can also export
your video file using this command.
21.4 Video Trimming Tricks
Commonly, composers receive movie files 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 files will also include the same pre-roll. While
working on music, however, the pre-roll is in the composer’s way: It would be more natural for
the movie action to start at song time 1.1.1 and SMPTE time 00:00:00:00. This can be accom-
modated by trimming video clips, as follows.
1. First, we drop a movie file at the start of the Arrangement (1.1.1).