In this example, I am mixing one of my favourite Swing Jazz tunes with visuals from one of last year’s Hollywood fantasy blockbusters juxtaposed with a modern linear Quartz composition.
Video lets you tell another story alongside the music that you have carefully chosen to craft one immersive, cohesive experience. You can specify what kind of transition behaviours you’d like Serato Video to do when you’re mixing two songs (eg Additive, Difference Fade, or a George Lucas-esque Screen Wipe). Of course you can do more by tweaking parameters within Serato Video, and there are a ton of transitions and effects to choose from. This is as no-frills as video mixing gets, and for general use you could practically use it as-is without having to fiddle with settings, provided you have enough video material with you to last the entire set, of course. The Serato ethos of simplicity isn’t lost with this plug-in: The crossfader and upfaders are linked by default to the video plugin, meaning whenever you mix to the next song using volume fades or a crossfade, the next visual “fades” in onscreen as well.
SERATO DJ VIDEO MOVIE
This is perfect for playing songs with video clips that you’ve edited together and rendered as a movie file, and even dropping actual music videos (remember MTV?). Neat!Ĭonversely, you could also drop a video file onto the decks on top where you would normally load your music and you could also perform the same audio-visual manipulations, meaning instead of loading two files in one deck (the music and the video), you’d just have to load one. If you want Serato Video to play the same visual whenever you load this track, simply press the “Associate” button, and it loads the video automatically the next time you play this track. This is ideal if you’re playing a track and you have some visuals loaded in your computer that you’d want to display along with it. When you execute a baby scratch, the video “baby scratches” too, etc.). Simply drag a video clip on to the bottom window on either side of the screen, and the clip links itself to the music that you have playing back, allowing you to manipulate the video in parallel with your music (eg when the music stops, the video stops as well. Serato Video appears in the middle of the main interface, so there’s no switching between screens and other confusing workflow tweaks: It’s still Serato through and through. What you’re actually seeing is Serato Video integrating itself in the main Serato interface, and as someone who’s not used it before, this is what I liked so much about it: For all the extended features that you get out of it, it’s still an app with a tiny footprint that hardly changes your workflow, a comfort for long-time Serato users who may be thinking about dipping into video DJing.
And while there seem to be a lot of boxes all of a sudden, it’s easy to find your way pretty soon… Once done, you exit the setup menu and click on the “Video” button at the top of the screen, and voila: The Serato Video interface is added mid-screen.
SERATO DJ VIDEO ACTIVATION KEY
As Serato Video is an option, it’s necessary to enable it in the setup menu where you enter an activation key that you’ve purchased from Serato’s website.
SERATO DJ VIDEO UPDATE
First thing is that it’s necessary to be running the latest version of Serato DJ: Serato DJ 1.6.1 comes with the update to Serato Video and this is absolutely essential.
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