I’d like to create an excerpt of a track of mine and sync some images to it. For example, each time the snare drum hits I want to show a certain image, perfectly synced. An editor where maybe I can say “show image every 1.057 seconds”, well not in code ofcourse but thru options. It has to be pretty precise, like say up to 1/1000 of a second.
Is there any software of this kind around? Can Ableton Live do this?
Thanks.
Just a note, videos usually have 25/30 fps, that much precision is not possible (or required for that matter: as long as the image shows up shortly before or after the snare hit, it will seem “perfectly synced” to our puny little brains). Anything that allows “scrubbing” the audio (so you can see which video frame ist closest to the snare etc.) should work.
If you want that much precision then there is not much but rendering your audio and then just mix the video along the audio using Pinnacle Studio or Liquid Edition.
Adobe Premiere would also help you precisely.
Thanks I’ll have a look at those programs.
If you’re familiar with Sonic Foundry Acid (now Sony Acid) you might want to try Vegas.
You may use some scripting capabilities of some video editing suites. Dunno which have them, but either way, you can parse the XRNS file and generate timecodes from there.
Also if you are into programming, Processing might be good help for you. Send me a PM to get the Processing plugin for XRNS timing.
I don’t know if you have access to Adobe After Effects - which as the name implies is more for effects and post-processing rather than editing - but it has the ability to use expressions and a feature called “motion math” which allows you to link the amplitude of an audio track to the parameters of a visual effect. You could for example link a kick drum to the blurriness of a video clip, or, in your example, make the snare drum trigger a certain image (via automating the image’s opacity, or brightness, etc). This makes it much easier and faster to create effects which are synced to your audio. You can export different individual elements from Renoise (kick, snare, bass, synths, etc.) as seperate audio files, then link all of them to different visual effects, etc.