I've been using Ableton for years and didn't know the trick about finding the tempo by warping a file. I used to be a Logic guy, for many years, and I have to say...it's a pain that you can only add one video track per project. In Ableton it's endless, and that's incredibly convenient. You can throw all the footage in one project where you have all your elements, sound design, etc, so you when you change the mix or anything, it applies to everything. This has been very useful with some work for advertising where you have to make different versions with different durations. One thing that I think it's not that good in Ableton for scoring is actually scoring, but in the end the best approach is exporting MIDI files anyway, and importing them in Sibelius or a similar software. I haven't been in a project so complex that the markers would be a problem, but in the rest, if you ask me, much more comfortable and practical than Logic, which is supposed to be one of the main tools for soundtracks. Also I find Ableton is much more comfortable for sharing projects with other producers, or people you're working with. Ah, and another thing...I suppose you don't know anything about working with OMF in Ableton, right? Sometimes that can be a pain in the ass. Anyway, good video, I'm glad I subscribed.
@daniandre3 жыл бұрын
Been using Ableton for multiple years, but for some reason i had no idea i could just drag and drop video into Ableton like this lmao. Great video!
@samuelkilik82333 жыл бұрын
DUDE ME TOO
@tristantzara94963 жыл бұрын
@@samuelkilik8233 if ur on windows it might not be that easy
@samuelkilik82333 жыл бұрын
@@tristantzara9496 sadly i am on windows
@Computernerd297 Жыл бұрын
@Samuel KILIK you just need to install an encoder, it's a simple install After that just drag and drop video like audio files You'll find it on the ableton, using video, help page
@TheCarnage20015 ай бұрын
@@Computernerd297 hey can you elaborate on installing the encoder? thanks
@blackbrain773 жыл бұрын
When right clicking the time ruler in the bottom in Arrangement there are frame options besides ms, you can change to 24 FPS (for example).
@DavidHilowitzMusic3 жыл бұрын
Ah, that’s cool!!! I had no idea.
@TonyThomas100003 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHilowitzMusic Yep, it does 24, 25, 30, and 29.97 drop and non-drop. Just right click on bar.
@valiumdupeuple3 жыл бұрын
@@DavidHilowitzMusic And there's a few M4L devices for markers' list, like the one called "fp.clock" (which also has a floating timecode window).
@jakeknobbe3 жыл бұрын
Can't figure out where to right click? Found it under Options > Time Ruler Format
@johngoodmanson62883 жыл бұрын
super helpful - so rare to see the mechanics of writing to picture - I suppose b/c folks can't show the footage. Also love your ascetics and the way you apply them across everything you create. No idea how you have the time to do such consistently awesome stuff, but I'm super grateful for it!
@indaskyes2 жыл бұрын
Thank you David! This was an excellent and super informative intro into and exactly what I was looking for! ✌
@DaveTherrien2 жыл бұрын
Lots of great tips in this video, David! Thanks
@sandwich-breath3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this, I like your options for cutting and longing up the midi to the film edits.
@SMIZZART Жыл бұрын
Very helpful and an all 'round great video. Thanks for the tips!
@irbomusic2 жыл бұрын
You're so helpful yet so underrated man. Earned a new sub :D
@manufortiskd2 жыл бұрын
Its been a struggle composing in ableton till i seen this, thank you vvery much.
@kiabellray4023 жыл бұрын
Thx sooo much for this vid. I will definitely put it to use. 😊
@marksteinhauser37793 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this - great insight 👍
@GatotAlindo3 жыл бұрын
wow this is really helpful .. the warp and leader on video track .. thank you
@RaphaelRacor2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I use Live for everything and now I want to create scores on it! Liked and subscribed!
@cook-music8 ай бұрын
How did I not know about this follower function! Thanks David!
@andreiviievskyi28383 жыл бұрын
interesting technique with a leader! thank you for this
@joelstephenson80172 жыл бұрын
Man, I love this video!
@pesto96723 жыл бұрын
You're wonderful! I love your work! Your videos are very useful and helpful for me! Please, make a Patreon, I want to support you!!
@tehxperience3 жыл бұрын
Its worth using insert time instead of dragging clips across. It'll prevent any headaches later. Also if you name markers a time signature, it will change the time signature - so you can add a few random beats without misaligning all of the music ahead of that point. So you could add a bar of 2/4 and then change back to 4/4 the next bar with markers. [I write this assuming you already know this but didn't include it for the simplicity of the video, however others may find it useful]
@DavidHilowitzMusic3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree about Insert Time! It’s so useful. I actually did try filming me using insert time, but for some reason the process looked complicated onscreen, so I went back and reshot it with me just moving the clips. :)
@xradical89x3 жыл бұрын
thanks, David!
@Blondesax2 жыл бұрын
Cool. Seems like it's more of a pain in the ass if I'm already comfortable with Logic, but it's nice to know that it's doable if I find myself in Ableton anyway.
@hpptlsm3 жыл бұрын
Great vid! Thank you :)
@virajvidheer31292 жыл бұрын
loved it
@MusicalWizardryMarcoIannello3 жыл бұрын
Did you watch one of Daniel James' early first videos, where he showcases how he used Ableton to score an Italian feature fan film centred on Metal Gear Solid? He too made use of those warp markers, but only to signal the cut hits, he would then go ahead and add/remove beats
@thomaslthomas1506 Жыл бұрын
I've migrated to ableton from Ill-logic over the last year. I typically score short sequences like this ie commercials. Ableton few short comings. More than are made up for by its flexibility. I list out my ques on paper then I score it in session view then record it into arraignment view. then import the video and massage all the hits etc.
@byD.Jakubiak2 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@MercurialAscent2 жыл бұрын
Oh-oh... And here, I thought this was a tutorial on how to SCORE with Ableton. Dang it.
@1983naam3 жыл бұрын
Hello David, I love your content, and I would love to have a little chat with you...I use Ableton Live for years, and I'm starting to make music for film. I found another workaround to set my hitpoints I would love to share with you. Have a nice day my friend.
@PleasureRyland Жыл бұрын
I’d also love to know how you pull this off
@tonezou39182 жыл бұрын
Hi David, quick question: how do you make the mod wheel animation (for increasing dynamics/layering) easy to use in your scoring flow? I tried to do that, but I am missing something and other DAWs make it seem very fluid and it just works out of the box. It is not really pleasant to do that with the mouse manually.
@PositiveActionMan3 жыл бұрын
Hi David! From Australia :)
@DavidHilowitzMusic3 жыл бұрын
Hi!
@bhushanvaze41683 жыл бұрын
Very helpful vidio
@vdub42162 жыл бұрын
So if I am scoring a video that is purely background (ire: drone footage) but want to keep 4/4 time and have the audio as the leader I should warp the video as follower and use warp markers to mark impact / cut / triggers ?
@JazzyJazzRock3 жыл бұрын
My only problem with ableton is it's not possible to make RAM friendly orchestral templates like in Cubase, Studio One, or even Bitwig as it doesn't roll back kontakt sample from RAM when you disable a midi track with Kontakt instance.
@RolandsBriedis Жыл бұрын
Are there any aupdated in Ableton to work in FPS workflow more easly? Thinking to switch from Logic to Ableton, but working a lot with video sounddesign.
@tonematrix3 жыл бұрын
I'm curious, what's your experience with using Kontakt libraries (mainly Spitfire Audio) in Ableton. I've been using Joshua Casper's technique for loading multiple libraries in a project. It works great but I seem to have an issue with closing a project that contains a big library like Albion One. It pinwheels until I force quit (most of the time). Also I noticed you use a combo of Addictive Keys & LABS Soft Piano. That's a great idea. I wish I could see how you have that set up. Lastly for this long winded comment, do you find it's hard to tame String libraries in Ableton as opposed to Logic? I can't seem to master the Christian Henson fader technique for dynamics/expression. I end up manually drawing in everything with a stiff neck. Thanks for this awesome inspiring video, love the channel!
@jamiemori37293 жыл бұрын
Did you ever resolve this? How much RAM does your computer have? I had the same issues with big libraries and the pinwheel.
@tonezou39182 жыл бұрын
I've also been trying to avoid the manual animation of the dynamics, but no luck yet. Did you find a solution for that fader?
@turtlewarcry63212 жыл бұрын
My export does not have the option for exporting as a movie, what do I do?
@joelstephenson80172 жыл бұрын
Do you need to download something for windows to accept the video in ableton?
@b3nmusicofficial8103 жыл бұрын
hey mate, great vid! What were you meaning when you said “turn off the audio from the video clip?” no idea what part that was talking about. cheers man!
@sodavidhill3 жыл бұрын
When you import a video into the DAW, the daw will create a separate audio track for the audio that the original video contained. What he was saying was to mute or not send that particular audio track with the stems. The editors already have the original video audio, so there’s no use of you sending them it again. It’s redundant . Hope that helped 👍
@SMTHN-02 ай бұрын
How do you mix then? Because as soon you use some plugins with latency everything will be out of sync again.
@jessinrodenburg77283 жыл бұрын
On your note on the timecode: Isn't there a max for live device that can do that? I mean, they're making it possible to connect lego mindstorms to ableton, it should surely be able to make working with films easier right?
@DavidHilowitzMusic3 жыл бұрын
Apparently there is! Someone posted it in another comment. :)
@franklingregorymoore3 жыл бұрын
I'm doing a score that has many tempo changes (automated on Master fader, unfortunately) and anything I edit towards the beginning affects everything after and it's a pain. With adding markers in the Warped/Leader clip do you then adjust the tempo in the clip or how does it work? I've been doing it the hard way all along 😩 Thanks
@PleasureRyland Жыл бұрын
Let me know if you figured this out. I’m also trying to find the same solution
@ahmed1azzazyАй бұрын
I have the same issue. Ableton misses up the sync of all audio/midi clips when changing tempo. I wish I owned Cubase or ProTools.
@DelToroBeats Жыл бұрын
I love ableton but its not made it for scoring; for my is almost imposible and i used ableton almost 20 years now ehehehehe but i love logic pro x for sound design and scoring. Nice video❤️
@DavidHilowitzMusic Жыл бұрын
yes, i'm inclined to agree :)
@chappie71233 жыл бұрын
Just a heads up to anyone on PC, importing video will likely be an issue. I agree, Ableton is so fun to compose in, but I couldn't get this to work for me - I went down the Abelton support rabbit hole to try to get it to work, no luck :( Seems to work great on mac though! Thanks for all the awesome videos David!
@tristantzara94963 жыл бұрын
Don't give up, literally took me years to get it to work. It's probably something stupid to fix
@chappie71233 жыл бұрын
@@tristantzara9496 thanks! I actually ended up going with Cubase , It’s been about 6 months now 👍 My poor Ableton 10 is collecting dust, I never got this video stuff to work on PC :(
@tristantzara94963 жыл бұрын
@@chappie7123 ah nice, I've wanted to switch from abletin to FL for almost 2 years, very hard to learn and youtube tutorials are shit
@DREW4202 жыл бұрын
@@chappie7123 Joshua Casper on yt talks about it. It's not a fault of ableton but your PC. I'm assuming it's running on a x64 system? Then you probably don't have the right coders on that PC. You need the matroska splitter. Check Joshuas vid in case it still doesn't work. There's an easy fix!
@tomaa3522 Жыл бұрын
Has ableton 11 addressed any of the issues you’ve mentioned ?
@tonguesunknown Жыл бұрын
did Ableton address the time code issue in 11?
@donatasb93433 жыл бұрын
In ableton version 9 instead of Leader it sayes Master. And the follower is named a slave. The question is, does this function works the same in the version 9? I am curious because, its not working for me as I expect. The tempo doesn't change after I added several warp markers. If I also drag the markers, then the master tempo reacts, but the transitions of the tempo aren't smooth it just goes straight up or down... Can anyone tell me how this Leader and slave function actually works? If the first midi note of the bar has to start in same position as warp markers in the Leader channel, it definitely doesn't do the job for me.
@PleasureRyland Жыл бұрын
I have this same question
@madd23776 ай бұрын
I feel like damn near every DAW is close to being as good as it possible could but the respective brands just WONT add the stuff that would make their software the "undeniable" best DAW
@avm_official3 жыл бұрын
Hi From India.
@DavidHilowitzMusic3 жыл бұрын
Hi!
@definitelymiami79783 жыл бұрын
i've scored a few things in Ableton using many of these techniques. I wish someone (with time on their hands) would make a bunch of the Pianobook libraries for Sampler!
@tonematrix3 жыл бұрын
Same! Every time Spitfire teases "we have a big announcement" I naively keep hoping it's some sort of LABS/Pianobook plugin :p
@von5086 Жыл бұрын
Does that window pop up whenever you drag video into audio track on windows or do I have to have media player open or this only on Mac
@jakeknobbe3 жыл бұрын
Anyone know how to do a tempo change without changing the video speed? You can see even in this video when he changes the tempo the video warps different. Also is their a way to change tempo speed in the clip? After you warp the video and set it to leader you can no longer change the tempo on master.
@cmuse2 жыл бұрын
If your video is changing speed you must be doing something wrong. Ableton is a little glitchy with the video preview and gets more glitchy the more you mess with the video file, but setting it to leader should not effect the actual file. Try exporting it after messing with the warp points while it's set to Leader and see if the exported file is the same length as the original.
@jakeknobbe2 жыл бұрын
I think I got it now. It locks the master tempo once you click leader so you have to do everything with warp markers in the clip.
@joelstephenson80172 жыл бұрын
Why didn't you put film music in the background of this video?
@sssbbb Жыл бұрын
You ARE CHANGING the speed of the VIDEO when you make Warp Markers and MOVING THEM!! You shouldn't do this!!
@lastcall99983 жыл бұрын
Hi David, have you considered normalizing/maximizing your speech audio? Kinda low compared to other youtubers, and since you are an audio guy I don't know why you wouldn't do this (because I bet you know what I am talking about). Cheers..