3 title: Video Timeline and Monitoring
7 Ardour offers a <dfn>video timeline</dfn> and <dfn>video monitoring</dfn>
8 for convenient audio mixing and editing to video, in order to produce
9 film soundtracks and music videos, or perform TV postproduction tasks.
13 The video capabilities are:
16 <li>Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it.</li>
17 <li>Provide a video monitor window, or full-screen display, of the
18 imported video in sync with any of the available Ardour timecode
20 <li>Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video.</li>
21 <li>Allow for a configurable timecode offset.</li>
22 <li><em>Lock</em> audio regions to the video.</li>
23 <li>Move audio regions with the video at video-frame granularity.</li>
24 <li>Export the video, trim start and end, add blank frames and/or
25 multiplex it with the soundtrack of the current session.</li>
29 The setup of the video subsystem is modular and can be configured
30 in different ways, including:
33 <li>One machine for all video decoding, video monitoring and audio editing
35 <li>Two machines, one for video monitoring, one for Ardour</li>
36 <li>Three machines, separate video server (for timeline decoding
37 and file archive), dedicated video monitor, and Ardour</li>
41 Ardour does <em>not</em>:
44 <li>allow for more than one video to be loaded at a time.</li>
45 <li>provide video editing capabilities</li>