Adding Video To FL Studio Using Fruity Video Player

In this article, I’ll show you how to add a video to FL Studio using Fruity Video Player to sync and use video as a reference to edit audio.

Note that Fruity Video Player is a generator plugin built into FL Studio. It’s freely available for anyone using the FL Studio Signature or All Plugins Edition.

Adding Video to FL Studio Using Fruity Video Player

Open FL Studio, go to channel rack, and click the “Add new channel” button. It’ll open up a list of plugins.

From the list of plugins, select “Fruity Video Player.”

Once the plugin opens, you’ll see a black window similar to the following (as shown in the image).

Now you can import a video into the plugin by following these steps:

1. Click on the folder icon to open up File Explorer on your computer.
2. From the library, select the video file you want to import.
3. Click the “Open” button to import the video.

You can import video formats like WMV, AVI, QT, MPG, MPEG, M1, MKV, and MP4 on the Fruity Video Player plugin.

These are the file formats supported by the latest version (21) of FL Studio. If you have an older version, you may be unable to import some of these file types.

Once the video is imported, you’ll see a screen similar to the one shown below.

By default, the video should be in sync with the audio.

If not, you can enable the “Slave to host,” option, also known as the “Link transport.”

It’s a link icon next to the main controls. Once you enable it, the link icon will glow, indicating it’s on.

That’s it. Now you are ready to work on the audio with video playback.

Unfortunately, I encountered an issue with Fruity Video Player when using it to playback a video reference for editing sound effects.

The Issue with Fruity Video Player

I used the ZGameEditor Visualizer plugin for a long time to add and sync videos on FL Studio as Fruity Video Player was not available for the Producer version.

Later, when I upgraded to All Plugins Edition (find the difference between various FL Studio editions), I tried out Fruity Video Player, but it didn’t work how I wanted it to.

So here is the issue,

Since Fruity Video Player is a generator plugin, you must add it to the channel rack.

Suppose I open anything else in the channel rack when the Fruity Video Player is running, the Fruity Video Player will close thereby removing the playback video I used as a reference.

Yes, I enabled the “Detached” option, so that’s not the issue.

If you know the solution, let me know by sending an email to adarsh@oddplug.com.

So, technically, due to this issue, you can’t effectively use Fruity Video Player for video reference.

Another workaround is to use the ZGameEditor Visualizer. Since it’s included for free in all paid editions (Fruity and above) of FL Studio, it can be used by almost every FL user unless you are in trial mode.

You can also use other third-party video player plugins with FL Studio.