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Yeah, unfortunately Live with video has never been reliable on PC and i’ve no idea why this isn’t being taking care of. On Mac though it’s always worked flawlessly as soon as Live is ok with the file format. As we said earlier, just use photo jpeg, this makes bigger files but also problem-free sets...

Hi, I think Reaper can warp video, but its warping system and overall interface are unfortunarely nowhere near as intuitive as Live's. Personally, I've given up on importing any videos into Live because it crashes instantly and can't even read a short mp4 clip (I'm on PC, though). I hope you'll fin...

Ableton + Video = Bad Ha, I've read that before, so I get where you're coming from. What drives me nuts here is that I've had no issues importing/editing/playing my Set with hundreds of video files until I'm now trying to open it on my new MBP. The 2015 and 2019 MacBooks both work fine with this, b...

you should use Photo-Jpeg codec, if you working with big video files. + 1000 And I'll add: you should NEVER use .mp4. I don't know why it's recommended in certain articles, it's just never worked properly with Live, and it can't sync correctly anyway. That's interesting. I specifically encoded thes...

What's your video file's format? The video files are MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC, H.264). you should use Photo-Jpeg codec, if you working with big video files. Thanks for the tip; I'll keep that in mind as I add files to the project. The video files I'm importing are around 10MB or less (prompter lyric videos ...

bakku wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:09 pm

https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... with-Video

Thanks for posting this link; I've gone through it multiple times without any luck, unfortunately.

[jur] wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 12, 2023 10:25 pm

What's your video file's format?

The video files are MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC, H.264).

Tarekith wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 12, 2023 2:13 pm

Unfortunately support is super backed up at the moment, so they are taking longer than usual to reply to tickets.

Thanks so much for the heads up, I appreciate it!

Just checking back in to see if anyone has experienced this or if anyone has tips on how to reach Ableton. I haven't heard anything on my support ticket yet.

I did; here's what I found using Activity Monitor on my Mac (physical memory: 32 GB). When I open Live 11 Suite with no Set loaded: 590.9 MB (overall system memory used: 17.12 GB) When I attempt to load one of my test Sets (only track being the "Prompter" video track, with the entire timel...

Hi! Looking for some help here, as I haven't received a response from my June 11th support ticket yet. I'm having serious issues with Live 11 Suite (11.3.3) and Live 10 Standard (10.1.43) when I'm trying to open my large Set that I last edited in Live 10 Standard on another computer. My 2021 MacBook...

Great, thank you! I was hoping there was a plugin or M4L device that would generate video along the timeline in arrangement view; if anyone knows of a prompting tool like that, please drop it here

Hi! I have a few live band karaoke shows coming up where clients will join us on stage; all of our songs are programmed to the timeline in Ableton, and I wanted to know if there's a straightforward way to add lyric text as video output in my Set. I've never incorporated video in with Live, so any he...

Hey, thanks so much for your reply; it's unfortunate that Mira is so unreliable. Is there a remote desktop/VNC app that would work well in this setup? Or Is Strange Electronics Setlist not even the way I should go for this function? I'm trying to have an easily editable song list available on stage ...

Hi! I'm in the process of putting my first Ableton-based playback rig together to be used in a live band context. I plan on using Strange Electronics Setlist (M4L) to organize/select each song in the set while on stage. However, instead of selecting the songs from my show laptop on stage, I'd like t...