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<h2>Introduction</h2>
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The integration of a video timeline and video monitoring into Ardour 3.x allows for convenient audio mixing and editing to video ie soundtracks, music videos, TV post production etc.
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Ardour 3.x sessions provide facilities to:
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<li>Import a single video and optionally extract the soundtrack from it.
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<li>Provide a Video-monitor window, or full-screen display, of the imported video in sync with any of the available ardour timecode sources.
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<li>Display a frame-by-frame (thumbnail) timeline of the video.
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<li>time-offset the video
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<li><em>Lock</em> audio-regions to the video: Move audio-regions with the video at video-frame granularity.
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<li>Export the video, cut start/end, add blank frames and/or mux it with the soundtrack of the current-session.
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Furthermore setup is modular and can be configured in different ways, including:
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<li>One machine: all video decoding, video monitoring and Ardour audio
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<li>Two machines: separate video-monitor and Ardour
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<li>Three machines: separate video-server (for timeline decoding and file-archive), dedicated video-monitor and Ardour
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Ardour does <strong>not</strong> :
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<li>allow for more than one video to be loaded at a time.
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<li>provide video editing capabilities
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<h2>Subtopics</h2>

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