Using Live to Trigger Video in Full Screen

davide · Post by **davide** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:01 am

How do I get the Video Window to default to full-screen when I open my files in Live?

For live shows, I'm triggering videos with my audio loops and projecting the video images from a projector connected to my laptop. The Ableton Live interface displays on my laptop screen, and the Video Window displays on the projector screen. However, I have to double-click the Video Window to get it to display full-screen. Instead, how can I get the Video Window to default to full screen? I want to be able to quickly open the Live files and have the videos display full screen from my projector so the audience doesn't have to see me fumbling around clicking on windows to make them bigger. Anyone know how to workaround this?

I'm using Live 6 with a macbook pro 2.33 ghz intel core 2 duo with 2gb of ram.

thanks,
Dave

davide · Post by **davide** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:54 am

No response? Come on. Doesn't someone use video via Ableton in their live shows?

Dave

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:06 am

i don't think you're copping silence... maybe there really isn't any other way.
maybe with autohotkeys or something, but seriously - is using the mouse for 2 seconds that bad?

davide · Post by **davide** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:23 am

Hitting the mouse wouldn't be that big of deal if we were more of a laptop band and I was in front of the laptop the whole time, but we mostly use live instruments and then use Ableton for looping. So having to resize the screen before every song interrupts our live flow and seems too much like going to a Microsoft presentation. There must be some way to do this. What do DJ/VJs do that use Abelton?

Dave

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:32 am

hang on, i'm not sure i follow you, you're reloading live in between songs? is that right?

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:56 am

davide wrote:What do DJ/VJs do that use Abelton?

They probably VJ with a VJ program.

Live's incorporation of video is intended for synching music to existing video, and as such isn't ideally suited for VJing.

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:01 am

you can have more than one video track setup so that you don't need to reload stuff. the only video track that gets displayed is the topmost one in the arrangement view...