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 title: Video Timeline and Monitoring
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-<h2>Introduction</h2>
 <p>
-The integration of a video timeline and video monitoring into Ardour 3.x allows for convenient audio mixing and editing to video ie soundtracks, music videos, TV post production etc.
+  Ardour offers a <dfn>video timeline</dfn> and <dfn>video monitoring</dfn>
+  for convenient audio mixing and editing to video, in order to produce
+  film soundtracks and music videos, or perform TV postproduction tasks.
 </p>
   
-
 <p>
-Ardour 3.x sessions provide facilities to:
+  The video capabilities are:
 </p>
 <ul>
-<li>Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it.
-</li>
-<li>Provide a Video-monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available ardour timecode sources.
-</li>
-<li>Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video.
-</li>
-<li>time-offset the video
-</li>
-<li><em>Lock</em> audio-regions to the video: Move audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity.
-</li>
-<li>Export the video, cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the current-session.
-</li>
+  <li>Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it.</li>
+  <li>Provide a video monitor window, or full-screen display, of the 
+  imported video in sync with any of the available Ardour timecode
+  sources.</li>
+  <li>Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video.</li>
+  <li>Allow for a configurable timecode offset.</li>
+  <li><em>Lock</em> audio regions to the video.</li> 
+  <li>Move audio regions with the video at video-frame granularity.</li>
+  <li>Export the video, trim start and end, add blank frames and/or
+  multiplex it with the soundtrack of the current session.</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
-Furthermore setup is modular and can be configured in different ways, including:
+  The setup of the video subsystem is modular and can be configured 
+  in different ways, including:
 </p>
 <ul>
-<li>One machine: all video decoding, video monitoring and Ardour audio
-</li>
-<li>Two machines: separate video-monitor and Ardour
-</li>
-<li>Three machines: separate video-server (for timeline decoding and file-archive), dedicated video-monitor and Ardour
-</li>
+  <li>One machine for all video decoding, video monitoring and audio editing
+  tasks</li>
+  <li>Two machines, one for video monitoring, one for Ardour</li>
+  <li>Three machines,  separate video server (for timeline decoding 
+  and file archive), dedicated video monitor, and Ardour</li>
 </ul>
 
 <p>
-Ardour does <strong>not</strong> :
+  Ardour does <em>not</em>:
 </p>
 <ul>
-<li>allow for more than one video to be loaded at a time.
-</li>
-<li>provide video editing capabilities
-</li>
+  <li>allow for more than one video to be loaded at a time.</li>
+  <li>provide video editing capabilities</li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2>Subtopics</h2>
-
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