So I have been using the Video SL with an SL1 unit. I like what I see so far and hope that as the betas become public releases, some of my own bugginess subsides. I looked in other posts and didn't see much on track associations but if you guys can enlighten me feel free to do so.
Technical Scenario 1:
I am wondering how cumbersome to the interface it would be if there was a way of creating some sort of hot key or loop that instead of playing the highlighted segment, it would SKIP the highlighted segment. It could be visually a contrast of the looped "green" designation as a "red" highlighted section where once the cursor reached the "red" section it would skip to the end of the highlighted section thus creating a seamless skip from one part to another. Essentially skipping portions of the video that may contain non-club friendly breaks.
Technical Scenario 2:
This may be asking too much but I might as well say something now to spark the dialogue. A new hot key for audio with associated video that should lock together. If they were to lock together a video with an intro that is not consistent with the audio could for instance start in sync with a hot key that was placed on the first bass kick for both tracks. An optional secondary sync key could be placed at the end of both tracks in relative places so that music would stay in sync with the video the entire time. If the secondary sync hotkey was necessary for whatever reason, it could take advantage of the key lock feature and adjust its pitch and speed accordingly.
Benefits:
I have been collecting videos for over a year now in anticipation of one day being able to play videos. I bought an external 1TB drive and everything and thought I would be ready once my naming and tagging was up to par. I realized after really watching some videos with VSL how many artists have breaks and interludes during their videos that are nothing like their actual single releases. I know that artists are not anytime soon going to taper their videos for the VJ's benefit so I figured that the work would have to be done primarily by us. I own Vegas, Final Cut Pro, and a Mac with iMovie but I think I may end up spending most of life editing when I could be eating, sleeping and trying to have a social life. (Saw a thread like that on here somewhere.) Imagine how easy it would be to stay inside of Serato for the needs of adjusting your videos on the fly. I am always setting hotkeys and loops on the fly during my sets for audio and I think it would great to be able to have these new functions available for video because honestly I know that I have my work cut out for me as I have established a Promo Only account and have about 1400 videos so far that I have to go through and edit. There are many videos where the audio is either distorted or simply not up to par and I would like to sync the tracks together without going into a another program or opening up my mac to do it. I know this is borderline turning Serato into a multi-track editor now that I think about it lol! At least maybe if there was a Rane plug-in product that worked seamlessly with Scratchlive to allow this type of functionality. It is a little overwhelming and I know I can probably get through it within a month or two in totality.
Let's start some dialogue about this because unless something like this is implemented (or already is and I just haven't found it yet), I would like to know what methods you guys are using to combat this type of dilemma. Thanks.