

VidPlayMTC is intended for studio setups where two PCs are linked via MIDI cable (or by MIDI over Ethernet ). If you have a video file formatted with any freely licensed codec, then VidPlayMTC will probably be able to open and play it. The application runs in Microsoft Windows and is able to open and play video files in any format supported by FFmpeg. It uses FFmpeg, which is an Open Source library of tools for working with video and audio data in multiple formats. VidPlayMTC is a simple and efficient application for playing video synchronised to MIDI Time Code (MTC). It features real time pitch shifting, time stretching and the ability to display karaoke and movie content in full screen mode, even on a second monitor.”Įven better news for Windows users of Pro Tools Intro, the video player app VidPlayMTC is completely free to use. CDG files, and allows easy text and chords editing/synchronization. It can organize and play many types of media files, including movies and. QMidi is decribed by the developer as “the ultimate multimedia karaoke player for the Macintosh. Q MIDI Pro is shareware (free to try) - Mac OS X 10.9 or later required - Fully compatible with MacOS Monterey. Setting up is a breeze, it’s just a case of going into the MIDI settings and selecting the IAC Sync Bus as the MIDI port and then selecting Slave to MTC in the Player menu. The Mac solution for video playback via MTC is an application called Q MIDI Pro, a shareware media player that includes video and MTC sync. Mac Solution - Q MIDI Pro - Cost around $30

When you press play in Pro Tools it will send MTC to the video player app so that it plays in time with Pro Tools Intro.

We will show you how to set up a Mac, Windows may be slightly different. The set-up required in Pro Tools is to create a way for Pro Tools to send the sync to the other application. However, after searching and then testing we’ve found two solutions, one for Mac and the other for Windows. In some cases the software was too expensive, which made it cost prohibitive, in other cases it was either too complicated to set-up or just didn’t work very well.

Thankfully Pro Tools Intro transmits MTC (Midi Time Code), so then it’s just a case of finding a video player that can receive MTC and setting it up.įinding the software to do this took some digging, even with Google. To play video with Pro Tools Intro then you need to use an external application that can synchronise with Pro Tools Intro. It comes with some limitations, one being there is no way to use video. Pro Tools Intro is the new free version of Pro Tools, the industry standard DAW for mixing music and audio.
