Kalide Scoring Tools
Score to picture — and deliver — without ever leaving Ableton Live.
Two Max for Live devices that turn Live into a film-scoring powerhouse. Spot in one, deliver from the other — your cues hand off between them automatically.
The suite
Spot to picture in VueMaster, deliver from CueMaster — the reel, start timecode, frame rate, and project hand off automatically between them.
No separate video app, no round-tripping. It's all Max for Live, inside your Set.
Loaded picture, guides, timecode, hits, and naming templates all persist — per device, per project.
SMPTE timecode from the first spotting session to the Broadcast-Wave stamp on your final deliverable.
VueMaster
Picture, sync & spotting
Spot cues against the frame, not the bar line.
VueMaster puts your picture in a floating window locked to SMPTE timecode — not a clip on a track. Cut, insert, and duplicate time in your arrangement without ever dragging video out of the way; the picture stays locked no matter how you edit.
Load your reel — plus guide stems and an EDL, if you've got them — then spot cues and mark hits against the frame instead of the bar line.
Floating video window — editing time in your arrangement never disturbs the reel.
Double-click fullscreen, one-button show/hide, aspect-locked, multi-monitor aware.
Optional timecode burn-in over the picture.
Locked to the transport — scrub, loop, or jump and the frame follows.
23.976 · 24 · 25 · 29.97 (+ drop-frame) · 30 fps.
Reel-hour convention — R5 heads at 05:00:00:00; set any start TC.
Capture & apply TC across reels; ±1-frame slip for fine alignment.
Spot cues — a named Live locator at the playhead, tagged with its exact timecode.
Hit points stay glued to picture through tempo changes, with a next-hit countdown.
Export a cue sheet — CSV or EDL — right next to the reel.
Up to 3 guide stems — dialog, temp, FX — locked to picture.
Level fader (−70 to +6 dB) and mute per stem, chasing the playhead sample-accurately through jumps.
EDL import — CMX 3600 EDLs and Avid feet-and-frames change lists convert straight to Live locators.
Load a folder — drop one folder and it auto-assigns the video, up to three guide stems, and an EDL in one move.
CueMaster
Naming & delivery
Every cue lands exactly where you scored it.
CueMaster takes your exported stems and renames and stamps them with frame-accurate Broadcast Wave timecode, so every cue lands on the dub stage exactly where you scored it.
Cue names, numbers, and timecode come straight from your session metadata. No re-typing, no conform headaches.
Token templates — build filenames from {project}, {cuenum}, {cuename}, {reel}, {tc}, {stem}, {version}, {date}, {composer}, and more.
Four naming presets plus a fully editable template.
Live before → after preview as you type.
Timecode in every stem — frame-accurate at pulldown rates (23.976 / 29.97), not just whole-number rates.
Automatic frame compensation for hand-typed timecode — fixes the one-frame-late spot in Pro Tools.
Full BWF metadata: originator, origination date and time, coding history, sample rate and bit depth auto-detected.
Pull from VueMaster — project, reel, fps, and start timecode auto-fill from the loaded reel.
Batch-rename and stamp a whole folder in one click — in place, or as clean copies.
Lock Source pins your export folder; a loud warning if it goes missing.
Works on network and cloud volumes — LucidLink, SAN — where Live's own file tools can't.
Spot in VueMaster, deliver from CueMaster. The reel, start timecode, frame rate, and project hand off automatically — from first frame to dub stage, the score never leaves Live.
Built-in help and a full illustrated manual with each device. Non-destructive — CueMaster can deliver copies and leave your raw exports untouched.