The goal is that when you line up the tracks and the video together from the beginning, they should be in perfect sync with each other as they play. Next, we had to determine if the lyric videos actually matched our track arrangements. This would make setup quick and keep everything on one device. We decided to use Ableton Live on a single computer to run the tracks and play the videos. As a guest worship leader, we didn’t have time to set up, or have access to the secondary ProPresenter computer to configure it. This method works really well in a weekend church service where you have the same setup every weekend and have time during the week to configure a steady connection. When the track starts in Ableton Live, it would simultaneously send a MIDI command to ProPresenter to start playing the video. If we were going to play the video in ProPresenter, we would need to send MIDI commands over a network connection between the two computers.

Either way would work, but there would be a significant difference in how we would configure it. The biggest question to figure out was whether or not we should play the video file in Ableton Live or on another computer running ProPresenter. There are a few important steps we took to make this happen.ĭecide: Video in Ableton or ProPresenter? I’m going to give you an inside look at how we decided to run lyric videos and tracks together for my friend’s situation. There is no “wrong” way to do something in Ableton Live, and if anyone says there is – don’t listen. There are many different ways to accomplish the same task in Ableton Live – it just depends on your work flow and what you need to happen.

Is this possible?” The awesome thing about Ableton Live is that your creativity is the limit of what it can do.

“Matt! My band is playing a worship conference next week and we want to use tracks and lyric videos together.

Published by Loop Community on May 29, 2019Ī friend called me recently in last-minute desperation.

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