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