Working with video in Live

I personally do loads of video tutorials, and for those, I tend to do the voice-over recording, dialog, music, sound effect editing, and mixing to sync to the motion picture in Live. It is super-easy to import and instantly start composing, recording, and editing the sound for video content.

Live will not turn into video editing software, so ensure that you have your final video edit ready to work with. However, you can import the final video and its corresponding audio, which you can quickly replace or add to using your current knowledge of the software. At the end, you can export a file that contains the video and the edited audio as well.

You can import video by dragging and dropping a video file into Live from your computer or browser.

If you drop it into the Arrangement View, straight away, you will see the waveform of the audio of the video on the timeline in a clip – the Video Window will also pop up, displaying the video (Figure 13...