catapularparlor

I'm a newbie here, but technical and a veteran Live user and film maker.

Challenge: I use Live's session view to queue videos for live projection in theater. Yes, there are other options, but I like this one as some things queued are just backing tracks without video. Easy.

I would like to graduate to interspersing live VJing 3 tunes (using Max for Live) in a set of about 8 pre-recorded videos. Here the main challenge seems to be that all Max for Live devices use their own video window. There does not seem to be a smooth way to switch between Live's native video window and the device's window. In the performance situation we can't cut the projector feed to switch.

Question 1: Is this correct? Am I missing something (yes, I searched the forums pretty well).

Question 2: Should I instead use a device to queue all video? So far, I've only found devices that loop short video with the purposes of applying effects and cuts. I have not found something that simply allows loading and selection of longer videos w/audio (15 videos, each ≤7 min), plays and stops. Alternate idea: if there are modules that can take an audio track's video as input, that would also work.

Challenge: I use Live's session view to queue videos for live projection in theater. Yes, there are other options, but I like this one as some things queued are just backing tracks without video. Easy.

I would like to  graduate to interspersing live VJing  3 tunes (using Max for Live) in a set of about 8 pre-recorded videos. Here the main challenge seems to be that all Max for Live devices use their own video  window. There does not seem to be a smooth way to switch between Live's native video window and the device's window. In the performance situation we can't cut the projector feed to switch. 

Question 1: Is this correct? Am I missing something (yes, I searched the forums pretty well).
Question 2: Should I instead use a device to queue all video? So far, I've only found devices that loop short video with the purposes of applying effects and cuts. I have not found something that simply allows loading and selection of longer videos w/audio (15 videos, each ≤7 min), plays and stops. Alternate idea: if there are modules that can take an audio track's video as input, that would also work.

Hi all,
I'm a newbie here, but technical and a veteran Live user and film maker.
Challenge: I use Live's session view to queue videos for li

ableton-live-native-video-playback-vs-max-for-live-module-playback-seeking-advice

I have been wondering the same thing, although in my case it is because video playback does not work in live for me because of a codec issue. I am hoping to solve that by using m4l as my video player. Did you ever solve your issue?

I am also trying to playback movie files in ableton and this does not work because of a mysterious possibly-codec issue. Tips/pointers???

Ableton Live, Native video playback vs Max for Live module playback - seeking advice