My experience so far was not about a full-fledged multichannel 5.1 soundtrack but with a sonification of a silent film (http://vimeo.com/7317445 and a brief 'experience report' here: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-September/062989.html)A friend of mine has invited me to compose for some videos he's planning on making. We haven't started yet, but I thought it might be good to be a bit ahead, especially since I haven't done this before and I know next to nothing about video... The noise making apps will be running ontop of jack. Google suggest I should look into xjadeo with the -i switch. Is that it? Anything (formats, codecs, framerates, interlaces other-stuff-I-dont-get) that I should ask for or try to avoid?
But keep in mind that the 'video-hell' is not just linux: my colleagues use a very expensive final-cut and they're still always having touble with framerates, aspec ratios, codecs, etc. etc.do you enjoy being whipped repeatedly by leather 9-tailed whips spiked with stainless steel blades?