Ableton/Live/UG/28 Video/02 The Appearance of Video in Live
- How video clips, the Video Window and Clip View behave.
- A video clip in Arrangement View looks like an audio clip with "sprocket holes" in its title bar.
- It edits like an audio clip, but Consolidate, Reverse and Crop turn it into a plain audio clip inside the Set. The movie file is never changed.
- The Video Window floats above Live's main window. Show or hide it from the View menu, move it anywhere, and resize it from the bottom right corner; its size and position are remembered across Sets.
- Double-click it for full screen, optionally on a second monitor.
Option-double-click (Mac) / Alt-double-click (Windows) returns it to the video's original size. 28.2.2.1 Movies with Partial Tracks
- QuickTime audio and video tracks needn't span the whole movie. During video gaps the window shows black; audio gaps play silence.
- In Arrangement View, video clips default to Tempo Leader and audio clips to follower, so Warp Markers on the video set "hit points" the music follows. The video clip's Warp switch must be on.
- Only the lowest currently playing leader clip actually leads, so other video clips can end up warped, which shows as warped video.
28.2.3.1 Warp Markers
- Dragging a video clip's Warp Marker updates the Video Window to that frame, making it easy to line up music with picture. QuickTime markers embedded in the movie show as visual cues.
