<p>
- No configuration is required if you intend to run everything on a single
- machine, and if you acquired Ardour from
- <a href="http://www.ardour.org"
- title="http://www.ardour.org">http://www.ardour.org</a>.
- Everything is pre-configured and included with the download/install.
+ No configuration is required if everything is to meant be run on a single
+ machine, and the version of Ardour comes from <a href="http://www.ardour.org"
+ title="http://www.ardour.org">http://www.ardour.org</a>. Everything is
+ pre-configured and included with the download/install.
</p>
<h2>Single Machine</h2>
+
<p>
- If you compile Ardour from source, or have installed it from a 3rd party
- repository, three additional tools will need to be installed manually,
- which are used by Ardour to provide video features:
-</p>
-<ul>
- <li>xjadeo (the video monitor application): <a href="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/"
- title="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://xjadeo.sf.net</a></li>
- <li>harvid (a video decoder used for the thumbnail timeline): <a
- href="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" title="http://x42.github.io/harvid/"
- rel="nofollow">http://x42.github.com/harvid/</a></li>
- <li>ffmpeg, ffprobe (used to import/export video, extract soundtracks and
- query video information): <a href="http://ffmpeg.org" title="http://ffmpeg.org"
- rel="nofollow">http://ffmpeg.org</a></li>
+ If Ardour is compiled from source, or installed from a 3rd party
+ repository, three additional tools will need to be installed manually, which are
+ used by Ardour to provide video features:
+</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>xjadeo (the video monitor application): <a
+ href="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/" title="http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/"
+ rel="nofollow">http://xjadeo.sf.net</a></li>
+ <li>harvid (a video decoder used for the thumbnail timeline):
+ <a href="http://x42.github.io/harvid/" title="http://x42.github.io/harvid/"
+ rel="nofollow">http://x42.github.com/harvid/</a></li>
+ <li>ffmpeg, ffprobe (used to import/export video, extract soundtracks and query
+ video information and encode mp3 for export): <a
+ href="http://ffmpeg.org" title="http://ffmpeg.org"
+ rel="nofollow">http://ffmpeg.org</a></li>
</ul>
+
<p>
- Ardour requires xjadeo ≥ version 0.6.4, harvid ≥ version 0.7.0 and ffmpeg (known to work versions: 1.2, 2.8.2)
+ Ardour requires xjadeo ≥ version 0.6.4, harvid ≥ version 0.7.0 and
+ ffmpeg (known to work versions: 1.2, 2.8.2, 5.0)
</p>
<p>
- The Ardour development team is in control of the first two applications. ffmpeg
- however can be a bit of a problem. To avoid conflicts with distribution packages,
- Ardour looks for <code>ffmpeg_harvid</code> and <code>ffprobe_harvid</code>.
+ The Ardour development team is in control of the first two applications.
+ ffmpeg however can be a bit of a problem. To avoid conflicts with distribution
+ packages, Ardour looks for <code>ffmpeg_harvid</code> and
+ <code>ffprobe_harvid</code>.
</p>
+
<p>
- All four applications need to be found in <code>$PATH</code> (e.g.
- <code>$HOME/bin</code> or <code>/usr/local/bin</code>). For convenience the
- binary releases of harvid include ffmpeg_harvid and ffprobe_harvid, but if
- your distribution provides suitable ffmpeg commands you can also just create
- symbolic links:
+ All four applications need to be found in <code>$PATH</code> (e.g.
+ <code>$HOME/bin</code> or <code>/usr/local/bin</code>). For convenience the
+ binary releases of harvid include ffmpeg_harvid and ffprobe_harvid.
+ Ardour binaries from ardour.org do include all relevant tools and most
+ GNU/Linux distributions also provide those.
</p>
-<kbd class="cmd lin">sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffmpeg /usr/bin/ffmpeg_harvid</kbd>
-<kbd class="cmd lin">sudo ln -s /usr/bin/ffprobe /usr/bin/ffprobe_harvid</kbd>
+
<p>
- Binary releases are available from ardour.org as well as an installer script:
- <a href="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh"
- title="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh"
+ Binary releases of the video-tools are available from ardour.org via a dedicated installer script:
+ <a href="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh"
+ title="https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/tools/videotimeline/install_video_tools.sh"
rel="nofollow">install_video_tools.sh</a>.
</p>
+
<p>
- The easiest way to install the video-utilities is by running the following
+ The easiest way to install the video-utilities on Linux is by running the following
line in a terminal:
</p>
+
<kbd class="cmd lin">sh -c "$(curl -s -L http://git.io/tVUCkw)"</kbd>
<h2>Studio Setup</h2>
+
<p>
- Please read the info in the previous section to familiarize yourself with
- the tools involved first. Setting up a proper A/V post-production studio
- can be a complicated task. As much as we streamline and simplify the
- <em>single machine</em> setup, the <dfn>studio setup</dfn> is focused on modularity.
+ As Setting up a proper A/V post-production studio can be a complicated task, it
+ is advised to read the info in the previous section to get familiar with
+ the tools involved first. As much as the Ardour team streamlines and simplifies
+ the <em>single machine</em> setup, the <dfn>studio setup</dfn> is focused on
+ modularity.
</p>
<ul class="fixme">
- <li>TODO:</li>
- <li>Synchronization ardour → video-display-box should be accomplished by external
- means jack-transport(netjack), MTC, LTC
- (<abbr title="Open Sound Control - "postmodern MIDI"">OSC</abbr> and/or
- ssh-pipe work but introduce additional latency + jitter)</li>
-<li>Ardour launches <code>XJREMOTE</code> (environment variable, default 'xjremote' which comes with xjadeo).
-</li>
-<li>Either use a custom shell script that ssh'es into the remote box and launches/controls xjadeo there, selects the sync-source and passes though communication between ardour ⇔ xjadeo via ssh (xjadeo is launched stopped with the session).
-</li>
-<li>..or override xjremote's behavior – instead of IPC with a local running xjadeo-process, using <abbr title="Open Sound Control - "postmodern MIDI"">OSC</abbr> for example. xjadeo would run permanently and Ardour will just tell it to load files and set offsets via <acronym title="Open Sound Control - "postmodern MIDI"">OSC</acronym>. see <a href="http://xjadeo.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xjadeo/xjadeo;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/xjremote-osc" title="http://xjadeo.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xjadeo/xjadeo;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/xjremote-osc" rel="nofollow">xjremote-osc</a> example script.
-</li>
-<li>If the video server runs remotely, Ardour needs to be configured in Ardour > Preference > Video (hostname of the video-server).
-</li>
-<li>
-Ideally the machines have a common shared folder (NFS or similar). Ardour's import (audio-extract) and export (mux) functionality depends on having access to the video file. Also Ardour's video-import transcodes the file into a suitable proxy-format that allows reliable seeking to any frame…
-</li>
+ <li>TODO:</li>
+ <li>Synchronization ardour → video-display-box should be accomplished by
+ external means. Jack-transport(netjack), MTC, LTC
+ (<abbr title="Open Sound Control—"postmodern MIDI"">OSC</abbr>
+ and/or ssh-pipe work but introduce additional latency + jitter)</li>
+ <li>Ardour launches <code>XJREMOTE</code> (environment variable, default
+ 'xjremote' which comes with xjadeo).</li>
+ <li>Either use a custom shell script that ssh'es into the remote box and
+ launches/controls xjadeo there, selects the sync-source and passes though
+ communication between ardour ⇔ xjadeo via ssh (xjadeo is launched stopped with
+ the session).</li>
+ <li>…or override xjremote's behavior—instead of IPC with a local
+ running xjadeo-process, using <abbr title="Open Sound
+ Control—"postmodern MIDI"">OSC</abbr> for example. Xjadeo would
+ run permanently and Ardour will just tell it to load files and set offsets via
+ <acronym title="Open Sound Control—"postmodern
+ MIDI"">OSC</acronym>. See <a
+ href="http://xjadeo.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xjadeo/xjadeo;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/xjremote-osc"
+ title="http://xjadeo.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=xjadeo/xjadeo;a=blob_plain;f=contrib/xjremote-osc"
+ rel="nofollow">xjremote-osc</a> example script.</li>
+ <li>If the video server runs remotely, Ardour needs to be configured in Ardour >
+ Preference > Video (hostname of the video-server).</li>
+ <li>Ideally the machines have a common shared folder (NFS or similar).
+ Ardour's import (audio-extract) and export (mux) functionality depends on
+ having access to the video file. Also Ardour's video-import transcodes the file
+ into a suitable proxy-format that allows reliable seeking to any
+ frame…</li>
</ul>
-
projects / ardour-manual / blobdiff