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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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