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		<title>Importing a CDG karaoke track into Ableton Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ableton Live does not have built in CDG support. But since Live 6 it lets you import Quicktime videos and play/manipulate them. There are some big limitations, but you can do the basics of KJ&#8217;ing no problem. The hard part is converting your CDG tracks to a video format Live can work with.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ableton Live does not have built in CDG support. But since Live 6 it lets you import Quicktime videos and play/manipulate them. There are some big limitations, but you can do the basics of KJ&#8217;ing no problem. The hard part is converting your CDG tracks to a video format Live can work with.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick guide on how to do that: <a href="http://www.karaokecrime.com/2009/01/how-to-covert-karaoke-files-to-video-mac-windows-linux/">How to covert karaoke files to video (Mac, Windows, Linux)</a></p>
<p>Pick one of the methods above (the one I can vouch for is kJams, see:<a href="http://www.karaokecrime.com/2009/01/best-karaoke-software-for-mac/">Best Karaoke software for Mac</a>) and try a test video. Once you&#8217;ve converted the video, import to Ableton Live by dragging it into the main window, where it says &#8220;Drop Files and Devices Here&#8221;.</p>
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<p>If the file appears in the list of clips, you&#8217;re good. Now hit the &#8220;TAB&#8221; key to switch to Live&#8217;s &#8220;arrangement&#8221; video (more on this later) and drag the video into the main middle space (in this view, it isn&#8217;t marked &#8220;Drag Files&#8230; etc&#8221;).</p>
<p>The video should appear as another colored rectangle, and if you hit &#8220;Spacebar&#8221; in Live (or press play in the top row of buttons) a video window should appear and the track should start playing.</p>
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<p>If you can&#8217;t drag the file into Live. Or if the video is garbled, that means the file is in a format that Live can&#8217;t work with. Go back and try <a href="http://www.karaokecrime.com/2009/01/how-to-covert-karaoke-files-to-video-mac-windows-linux/">one of the other tools in the guide above</a>, or try tweaking that tool&#8217;s options. (The goal is a an h.264 video file in an .m4v wrapper. If the video plays in iTunes, it should work in Live.)</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> Live 6 lets you work with video, but only Live 7 and later let you <i>export</i> your work. So you can perform with Live 6 but you will need Live 7 for making Youtube videos, etc. Since Live 6 was the last version with a stable crack for Mac (at the time of this writing) this is important to remember. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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