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-title: Video Timeline and Monitoring
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-<p>
- 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>
- 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>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>
- The setup of the video subsystem is modular and can be configured
- in different ways, including:
-</p>
-<ul>
- <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 <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>
-</ul>
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