Video Timeline and Monitoring

Ardour offers a video timeline and video monitoring for convenient audio mixing and editing to video, in order to produce film soundtracks and music videos, or perform TV post-production tasks.

The video capabilities are:

• Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it.
• Provide a video monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available Ardour timecode sources.
• Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video.
• Allow for a configurable timecode offset.
• Lock audio regions to the video.
• Move audio regions with the video at video-frame granularity.
• Export the video, trim start and end, add blank frames and/or multiplex it with the soundtrack of the current session.

The setup of the video subsystem is modular and can be configured in different ways, including:

• One machine for all video decoding, video monitoring and audio editing tasks
• Two machines, one for video monitoring, one for Ardour
• Three machines, separate video server (for timeline decoding and file archive), dedicated video monitor, and Ardour

Ardour does not:

• allow for more than one video to be loaded at a time.
• provide video editing capabilities