Sync to video, urgently needed.

[diegux]

I use Live to score to picture on a daily basis, music and sound design. I love how fluent and creative the software makes me be, despite several major flaws when syncing to video.

Please , pretty please, with a cherry on top Ableton, can we have the following two features ASAP? Really hard to sync to picture without them:

1. LATENCY COMPENSATION FOR VIDEO. Pretty self explanatory, once you add plugins that have latency the video playback will be out of sync, making it impossible to work. The workaround is to add latency dependent plugins after the syncing is done. This is not a real workaround right? It is version 12. Video has been around forever, I think this is a major flaw and should be addressed urgently.

2.LOCKING CLIPS IN ARRANGEMENT VIEW TO ABSOLUTE SMPTE TIME. Also self explanatory, when you are working with video some clips need to be independent from the project's tempo (BPM). If you change the BPM, there should be an option to keep desired clips at an absolute SMPTE time. For example, you have an explosion sound syncing to a specific frame, if you need to try tempo changes in the music, that sound needs to stay in sync with the picture despite tempo changing.


Thanks a lot for your help and understanding, best.

[[jur]]

2.LOCKING CLIPS IN ARRANGEMENT VIEW TO ABSOLUTE SMPTE TIME. Also self explanatory, when you are working with video some clips need to be independent from the project's tempo (BPM). If you change the BPM, there should be an option to keep desired clips at an absolute SMPTE time. For example, you have an explosion sound syncing to a specific frame, if you need to try tempo changes in the music, that sound needs to stay in sync with the picture despite tempo changing.

This is related to something that's very much needed: a frame-based grid (and a way to switch between this and the regular beat grid).

[Aeph]

:Bump:

Both features are essential to approach Ableton more professionally and I hope to finally have them featured on Ableton 12.