From: Robin Gareus
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 02:54:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: some clean-up of the video-operations doc
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some clean-up of the video-operations doc
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diff --git a/_manual/23_video-timeline/03_operations.html b/_manual/23_video-timeline/03_operations.html
index a3f63dd..212543e 100644
--- a/_manual/23_video-timeline/03_operations.html
+++ b/_manual/23_video-timeline/03_operations.html
@@ -3,22 +3,17 @@ layout: default
title: Workflow & Operations
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-- Session > Open Video - add/replace a video to/on the timeline
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-- Window > View Monitor open/close external video monitor window
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-- View > Video Monitor > ⦠settings of the video monitor
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-- Session > Export > Video
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-- Drag the video in the timeline - right click and choose 'lock' to prevent accidental drags
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-- Audio-Region > context-menu > Position > Lock to video â audio-region(s) are moved along with the video.
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+Overview of Operations
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+ - Session > Open Video
- Add/replace a video to/on the timeline
+ - Window > View Monitor
- Open/close external video monitor window
+ - View > Video Monitor > â¦
- Various settings of the video monitor
+ - Session > Export > Video
- Export session and multiplex with video-file
+ - Drag the video in the timeline
- Re-align video and move 'locked' audio-regions along
+ - Context-menu on the video-timeline: 'lock'
- prevent accidental drags
+ - Audio-Region > context-menu > Position > Lock to video
- mark audio-region(s) to be moved along with the video.
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Adding Video
@@ -38,28 +33,24 @@ Adding video is a two-step process.
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The first step is rather straight forward: The panel on the right side allows to seek through the video and displays basic file information. It is also useful to check if the video format/codec is supported:
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The second step analyzes the video file in more detail and offers import options:
-- Import/Transcode to Session. This is the default. The video will be imported in a suitable video-format/codec for the timeline and video monitor and saved inside the session folder. A location different than the session folder can also be chosen (extrnal disk, network storage of the video server on a different machineâ¦).
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- Import/Transcode to Session. This is the default. The video will be imported in a suitable video-format/codec for the timeline and video monitor and saved inside the session folder. A location other than the session folder can also be chosen (external disk, network storage of the video server on a different machineâ¦).
- Reference from Current Location. Only useful for opening files that were previously encoded (are already in a good format/codec) use with care.
@@ -68,26 +59,33 @@ The second step analyzes the video file in more detail and offers import options
-By default the video is imported using the original width/height. If it is a large video (e.g. full-HD) it will make sense to scale it down to lighten CPU and disk I/O required to play it. For editing sound-tracks, a small representation is usually sufficient. The default bitrate is set to use 0.7 bits per pixel. Some key values: the average DVD medium uses 5000kbit/sec.
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-Working with A/V
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-Well now,..
+By default the video is imported using the original width/height.
+If it is a large video (e.g. full-HD) it makes sense to scale it down to decrease the CPU load and disk I/O which required to decode and play the file.
+A small, low-quality representation of the image is usually sufficient for editing sound-tracks.
+The default bitrate in kbit/sec is set to use 0.7 bits per pixel. (compare: the average DVD medium uses 5000kbit/sec; at PAL resolution this is about 0.5 bits per pixel - but the DVD is using the mpeg2 - a denser compression algorithm than the mjpeg codec used by ardour.)
+Working with A/V
-Exporting Video
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+Well now,..
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+Exporting Video
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The video-export will take audio from the current Ardour session and multiplex it with a video-file.
@@ -97,7 +95,7 @@ By default the video file that is displayed on the timeline is used as video-sou
-The soundtrack of the video is taken from an audio-export of ardour's master bus.
+The soundtrack of the video is taken from an audio-export of Ardour's master bus.
@@ -105,5 +103,10 @@ The range selection allows to cut or extend the video. If the session is longer
-Audio Samplerate and Normalize Audio are options for Ardour's audio exporter. The remaining settings are options that are directly passed on to ffmpeg.
+Audio-samplerate and normalize-audio are options for Ardour's audio exporter. The remaining settings are options that are directly passed on to ffmpeg.
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