4 Jul
2005
4 Jul
'05
1:29 p.m.
A friend of mine has asked me to help him out with a film that he's
made. He needs me to help clean up the audio by evening out the sound,
highlighting the 3 spoken lines in the piece, and adding some original
music (which I'd already recorded for a mutual friend) at the end.
I'm sure I can do the audio tweaking he wants, but I am completely
new to working with video.
He's given me a DVD that says it's in the OpenDVD format, created using
MyDVD with AuthorScript by Sonic Solutions.
Can anyone point me to a Linux-based tool that will allow me to work
with the soundtrack on this type of DVD? I'm guessing that there's
more to this than ripping the audio somehow and manipulating it, then
throwing it back on with no thought to synchronization!
Thanks for any pointers folks can give me towards making this work.
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5:31 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:29:47AM -0400, Joe Hartley wrote:
Can anyone point me to a Linux-based tool that will
allow me to work
with the soundtrack on this type of DVD?
I believe Cinelerra is the standard Linux tool for video editing. I've
never used it, but I'd imagine that editing in separately recorded audio
soundtrack material must be among its capabilities.
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6:12 p.m.
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 20:31 +0100, anahata wrote:
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:29:47AM -0400, Joe Hartley
wrote:
There aren't really things as "standard tools" for Linux. Cinelerra is a
tool for non-linear video editing, quite like Ardour, but for video
instead of audio.
Can anyone point me to a Linux-based tool that
will allow me to work
with the soundtrack on this type of DVD?
I believe Cinelerra is the standard Linux tool for video editing. I've never used it, but I'd imagine that editing in
separately recorded audio
soundtrack material must be among its capabilities.
From what i gathered, the original poster needed to
create soundscape
for a finished, already cut video piece. You don't need
fully-fledged
video editing software for creating the audio for this.
xjadeo + ardour has been used by at least a few people with good
results. xjadeo seems perfect except for one problem, it seems to be
really picky about what type of video files it plays, so you might need
to transcode the video file to the correct format before being able to
play it with xjadeo.
The basic idea behind xjadeo is simple. It syncs to jack transport, so
it will stay in sync with ardour. Or any other jack transport enabled
software, like muse.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xjadeo/
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9:40 p.m.
Hi,
You don't
On Mon, Jul
04, 2005 at 11:29:47AM -0400, Joe
Hartley wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a Linux-based tool that
will allow me to work
> > with the soundtrack on this type of DVD?
> need fully-fledged
video editing software for creating the audio for
this.
If the movie is at final cut this is true. I'm also
assuming it is. A finished visual product makes the
audio engineering alot easier.
Ideally you will work with the original multitrack
audio sources. Working from the stereo mix that is on
the DVD is a big compromise.
xjadeo + ardour has been used by at least a few
people with good
results.
It has worked well for me.
xjadeo seems perfect except for one
problem, it seems to be
really picky about what type of video files it
plays,
In fact it only plays one type of file. I think it's
an .avi wrapped in mp4. At any rate the instructions
for converting to the file type are included with the
package.
so you might need
to transcode the video file to the correct format
before being able to
play it with xjadeo.
Producing a new DVD with the original visual files and
the new audio is the question mark in my mind. After
the audio is produced, throw away the xjadeo file and
burn a DVD with the new audio and original visual
file.
I'm guessing the mencoder can strip out the orginal
audio. Of course do because xjadeo does this.
What tool would be useful to merge the audio and
visual back together with? I suppose their are many
possibilities including the GUI apps like Main Actor
and Cinelerra.
These are all tasks I'll be performing in the next
several weeks. I normally hand client audio off to a
video house but am doing my own movie and intend to
produce audio and video start-to-finish in house with
Linux tools. I hate to say this but these might be the
designs of a sadistic mind. The audio is simple but
video production looks massively confusing. Main Actor
might save my sanity. We'll see.
Hopefully Joe learns some things so I can pick his
mind. In fact I'm not working on my project until Joe
reports success in a new Movies Made with Linux wiki
forum with appropriate mailing lists and all the other
organizational jazz that we never cease to ponder.
Incidentally, the last soundscore I worked on played
in a feature slot during the opening of the new Walker
in Minneapolis. The Walker is a highly reguarded art
museum in the U.S. The audio was produced in its
entirety with Linux tools. I'm told the movie and its
audio recieved rave reviews. I'm so lame I'll have to
call the movie producer to figure out the name of the
film. lol Chalk up another small success for Linux
audio.
I digress for the moment but hope we get to compare
notes,
ron
The basic idea behind xjadeo is simple. It syncs to
jack transport, so
it will stay in sync with ardour. Or any other jack
transport enabled
software, like muse.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xjadeo/
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