Version 3 of Ardour will become available on OSX shortly. Three machines: separate video-server (for timeline decoding and file-archive), dedicated video-monitor and ArdourĪllow for more than one video to be loaded at a time. Two machines: separate video-monitor and Ardour One machine: all video decoding, video monitoring and Ardour audio Lock audio-regions to the video: Move audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity.Įxport the video, cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the current-session.įurthermore, the setup is modular and can be configured in different ways, including: Provide a Video-monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available Ardour timecode sources.ĭisplay a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video. Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it. soundtracks, music videos, TV post production etc.) "The integration of a video timeline and video monitoring into Ardour allows for convenient audio mixing and editing to video (i.e. This makes it much more useful to video editors looking for an audio counterpart to Lightworks on Linux.Īs the Ardour news webpage states of v3.2: Version 3.0, however, now supports midi recording and playback as well which will be good news to keyboard players and video editors seeking to create their own spooky sci-fi soundtracks with electronic synthesizers.īut what will be of special interest to RedShark News readers is the even more recent release-on 13th June-of version 3.2 of Ardour which now has video support. Previous versions did not have midi capability-it was limited to audio editing. A new version 3.0 was released in March of this year. A customised commercial version of the software is available, however, on Windows under the name Harrison Mixbus.Īrdour has undergone some significant developments in recent months. The developers, led by US-based British software engineer Paul Davis, say that they do not have the infrastructure just yet to support a large influx of Windows users. OS X but no Windows versionĪrdour is also available on the OSX but not on Windows which is why it is not as well known as the more basic-but still excellent-cross-platform open source audio editor Audacity. The creation of such a complex application with such slender resources is an amazing achievement and a tribute to their commitment and determination. It has been run largely on the basis of voluntary donations from users - but also with significant financial support from a number of commercial sponsors that has funded a small team of developers. Developed initially on Linux, it is one of the biggest and most complex multimedia projects ever devised as an open source project from the start. Previous RedShark News articles have dealt briefly with the high-end audio editor Ardour. Update! As pointed out in the comments, Debian not only carries a really old version but also version 3.This high-end Linux and OS X Digital Audio Workstation now supports video playback. I still need to test out some more features to see if everything is in place, but it looks hopeful. not JACK) and installing libjack-dev meant that Skype got kicked out, so the system needed some love to restore the order.ĭpkg -install skype-debian_4.3.0.37-1_bĭespite this little hack, Ardour seems to work nicely and record and play back. waf configure -with-backend=alsa -prefix=/wherever/you/want/it Then it is just a matter of configuring using waf. Instead, I just took whatever I could find in Debian. I decided not to care too much about versions for these packages. In addition to the patches libs, the requirements list a whole range of gtk and corresponding -mm packages as well as boost, and varous codecs and such. These seems to be more or less small fixes, apart from the libsndfile that has a bug fix for handling BWF files. The do carry a set of patches towards some of the packages. Here is a summary from what I learned.įirst of all, the Ardour people have written a building page and a list of dependencies. Debian carries version 3, so I decided to build version 4 myself. The Ardour project just announced version four of the digital audio workstation.
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