INSTRUMENTS / GENERATORS

Fruity Video Player

DEMO ONLY: The Fruity Video Player comes as a demo version in FL Studio and needs to be purchased separately so you can view extended video clips.

Fruity Video Player allows you to open and play video files synchronized with your song. This is a very useful tool for those who are working on music soundtracks that need to be scored in time with video events.

Keep in mind that FL Studio is not a video rendering package so it will not export the video footage, the Fruity Video Player plugin can only be used to view videos and to rip audio from videos into FL. The audio is streamed into FL Studio like any other audio plugin, however to achieve best synchronization and quality for exported audio tracks, it is highly recommended to export the audio as wave file and use it like a regular audio track inside FL Studio. A related plugin is ZGameEditor Visualizer that can render video effects in sync with the music played from FL Studio.

Parameters

File Browser - Click to browse and open a video file in the player.
Options - Click to select audio-rendering options and detach-window options.

Audio Rendering The audio handling in the video player is fairly slow compared to .wav files, etc, so to save frustration several audio options are provided:

Don't render - No audio will be rendered, this is the quickest rendering mode.
Render fast - This is faster than the Slow option, but still quite slow. Quality is sacrificed for speed.
Render slow - This has the highest audio quality, but be prepared to wait.

Video Window:

Detached - Allows the video player to be detached from the FL Studio desktop.
Stay on top - Keeps the player window on top of all other windows.
Full screen - Shows the video in full screen mode, Esc to cancel.

Options:

Ignore tempo changes - Prevents the player re-syncing position when the FL Studio master tempo is changed.

Progress Bar - Shows the playback position of the video (the 'lit up' section of the bar) and allows you to adjust the start and end timing of the the video segment to match your project audio (drag the the black start/end setting sliders on the progress bar).
Loop - If the video is shorter than the project you're working on, enabling this option will loop the video to fill the entire length of the project.
Aspect - Enable this option to preserve the original aspect ratio of the movie as you resize the window. Disabling it will fit the video perfectly in the window but may stretch it to an incorrect aspect ratio.
Mute - Enable this option to mute the video completely (no audio streamed in FL Studio).
Volume - Sets the volume of the audio track inside the video.

Notes

The Video Player works with Windows native formats (.WMV, .AVI, .SWF, etc). If you have a video in a format not recognized by the Video Player it should be converted to one of these formats first. For example, the .MOV format may or may not work, depending on the CODEC used to create it. In the case of .MOV, the QuickTime movie viewer (available from the Apple website) can be unlocked for a small fee to convert between .MOV and the .AVI format that can be used with the Fruity Video Player.

Plugin Credits: Duncan Fewkes, Frederic Vanmol