Been getting lots of crashes and inability to render video in Live. I'm on windows 7. Was running ver.9.7.1 but I just updated to 9.7.5 however I'm still having the same issues. Any tips for getting videos to run smoother?

 

I'm on osx, and over the last few years, I've had nothing but issues rendering video in ableton, really sucks.

 

Read this:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/a...y-back-video-with-the-64-bit-version-of-Live-

It’s the same with Cubase & Protools. All are audio-softwares, favouring audio tasks over video.
Common videocodecs like H264 are very CPU intensive. On DAWs, video comes second, often resulting in problems..

The solution is to use another -less CPU intensive- codec, like Apple ProRes proxy, Avid DNxHD or PhotoJPEG, or, at least encode video with a keyframe on every frame. I don’t know if Ableton supports the Avid or Apple codec, but it does support PhotoJPEG.

These codecs are called ‘intermediate codecs’ - used when working on stuff. When done, export the audiotrack and use software to transcode it to H264/5 with AAC audio, optimised for streaming & playback.
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/Avid-QuickTime-Codecs-LE
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1947?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
http://hdcinematics.com/forms/V6-Download.html (donate-ware transcoder)