Re: AqsisMovieProject

Benjamin Flaming wrote:

>      Actually, you have ;)  Most of my programming time right now goes into
> a project called Tinara (which is still *mostly* vaporware - see
> tinara.org), but I'm also credited in the list of contributers for Hydrogen,
> and I've submitted a small patch or two to ZynAddSubFX.  I'm *not* a *great*
> programmer, but I consider myself competent, and able to learn what I need
> to know to get a programming task accomplished.

I'll check out your project.  I'm not doing any Linux audio development 
right now, since most of my meager extra-curricular programming time 
goes towards K-3D or a Linux DVD authoring application called Polidori.

>>AniComp, BTW, does directly support JACK and Ardour -- it can be used 
>>for animatics.
> 
> 
>      Does it support JACK transport, or just JACK I/O?

 From their website:

"AniComp provides the core system for arranging an Animatic. AniComp 
works with Ardour an open source Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) to 
handle its audio, and Jack a low latency audio server for audio visual 
synchronization. We have worked closely with the primary author of both, 
to extend Ardour to include an image based track. This provides AniComp 
with a powerful DAW, and all the features that come with it, for 
professional quality audio, and a visual time line of the audio against 
the visual frames of the Animatic."

>      As impressed as I am with Cinelerra's video compositing capabilities (I
> also authored one of its plug-ins), it's still so unstable that I cringe at
> the thought of using it for any complex audio work.  It would also preclude
> the synchronized use of other applications - since it doesn't use JACK or
> JACK transport.

I haven't used Cinelerra much (it was only until recently that someone 
took the initiative to make a Debian package), so can't vouch for it's 
stability, but it seems pretty feature rich.  I use Kino a lot also. 
It's great for basic DV editing.

>      The ideal, of course, would be video playback in Ardour or RoseGarden. 
> I'd toyed with the idea of trying to add JACK transport support to an
> existing movie player, but that would be a *much* bigger project than I'd
> have time for.  One possible alternative would be the creation of a simple
> JACK transport client, which would do nothing but movie playback.  It would
> be somewhat clumsy, but it could be functional.

Yeah... I wish I had the time to look at it in more depth also.

-- Brett
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