Ableton Forum

I know it has been mentioned, and the team has hinted it might be included in the next release, but i thought i should emphasis how important a video export facility would be. Time warping video is so key in the audiovisual world, i create video acapellas on a regular basis and at the moment there is no facility on the mac to create such video acapellas. In short, please please include a video export facility it would open a whole new audiovisual world.

Whilst I can certainly understand where you are coming from I disagree, and think that the more video features Live has, the less resources are being placed on Live as a music production environment.

In my opinion if you want to edit video, buy a video editing program. Adding video editing features to live would go a long way to making it bloated and more annoying for those only needing it for music production.

However, I might be totally wrong, as there was already obviously a lot of requests for it to get video import in the current version....

I don't believe it was that widely wanted. Ableton seem to have catered to a niche market, while they left out some core upgrades for musicians which is quite sad.

I hope

1) preview the video that edit loop in session view.
2) video out through over Firewire or video output board.

I wish not edit video on Live,
but remix with audio and visual on Live session.

Please:
1) Session view video
2) Video export

AV is the future!!!!

Adding video playback was highly requested and easy for Ableton to add.

Video export might be much more work. Export what format? what framerate? interlaced?

I might also prefer (since I have FCP) Ableton put their effort into audio side if video export was a resource intensive feature

e-theory wrote:In my opinion if you want to edit video, buy a video editing program. Adding video editing features to live would go a long way to making it bloated and more annoying for those only needing it for music production.

I agree, but editing video and exporting video are two totally different things.

However, it seems not to be the biggest deal to implement an export feature when a application already can handle importing and playback videos.

yes we need to export video NOT as a dj but as a producer. I am making some real crazy soundtracks to theese video clips, and i have no way to share my finished product. until I can "render" its just a waste of time.

itsthejayj wrote:In short, please please include a video export facility it would open a whole new audiovisual world.

Thats so right!!! Never could say it better!!! Let us explore new audio/visual world!!!

I was so exited when I was waiting for my serial number...
Then I spent hours working on a video as part of my degree. First confusion, then disbelief...

I only signed up to this forum just to say this:

WHERE IS IT!?

I'd have been happy with even highly limited functionality - freeware video converters are everywhere.

e-theory wrote:

In my opinion if you want to edit video, buy a video editing program. Adding video editing features to live would go a long way to making it bloated and more annoying for those only needing it for music production.

Do you know of any other software that uses warp-markers? Are we asking for chroma-key, multiple video channels or even simple transitions?

No

Live 6 would be very, very useful for synchronising short sections of video which could then be moved into other software to produce the video in.

In fact, I only even bought the upgrade because I read that it had a video track. One would assume that a video track would include import, basic editing and export.

What's the point in warping video in the first place if all you can do is show it from your own computer? The manual gives the example of the video producer giving the composer a piece of video...
Rubbish - if the composer warped the video it wouldn't synch with the original anymore would it?

So the only real functionality is for live work. Great. The lack of export function renders some fantastic functions utterly pointless for 99% of the software's working time.
No video work done in Live 6 can be distributed or released in any way. This is a huge problem with an otherwise outstanding piece of software.

I loved Live 5. I was really hopeful for Live 6.
I really hope they fix this one.

And sorry for the negative tone of this post...
Just had a lot of hard work go to waste.
Suppose I should have found out sooner by doing a test or something.

I wanna one more thing.

When playback the movie loop , first frame of movie clip always playbacked.
This problem is that get flickered video when act on Live6.

Full screen option when double click of movie window is very nice.

youtube and google video are 2 of the hottest things one the net right now (don't blink) and everyone has a video capable ipod and or phone.. the now the new iphone!. still can't believe there is no export.

just a heads up on how i'm exporting the video... best way i found would be to use a video camera with video in and out, connect you computer to the camera using firewire and record to the camera, then play the contents of your camera back to the computer... long way around but it works!!!

Ableton as a fully funtioning audio/visual perfomance tool would be nothing short of incredible. with the powerful graphics cards now on the market and in most new laptops, it wouldn't even need to impeed processor power.
even on my ancient powerbook 667 the video warping runs at full screen with no dropped frames which is more than i can say for even Final Cut Pro.

I thought "video capabilities" meant that you of course could export it too. I would never have guessed one could not export them. I don't do videos though, so whatever. Still kinda weird though.