Re: [LAU] composing for video

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Paul Davis schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Atte André Jensen
> <atte.jensen@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
...
>> Exactly what do you mean with "the video thing"? The process I'm trying to
>> start (composing for film), the technical aspects/problems of it or the
>> video-container-codecs-and-friends-jungle?
>
> mostly the latter.
...
> my brief and very superficial experience with the video tech world
> suggests that its at least twice as bad, perhaps 100x as bad.

Of course it is. Happily, we as the musicians can sit back and enjoy
watching the video-people being flogged - and flogging themselfs.

As long as one can arrange an agreement with the video-makers, that
generic 48/16 BC-Wave-files are the most exotic stuff to be delivered, I
do not see a danger of being seriously hurt when working for a soundtrack.

Just get a generic MPEG or DV file of the movie. Convert it like this:

http://xjadeo.sourceforge.net/doc/ar01s03.html#video_formats

extract the soundtrack from the orignal file to a wav-file

open a new session in Ardour and import the basic soundtrack, make sure
that Ardours clock-source is set to "jack" and that it is time master.

start xjadeo like this:

xjadeo file_converted_as_seen_above.avi

Here starts the fun-part. The movie in xjadeo will follow every move of
the cursor in Ardour (it will sync to any other jack-capable
timline-oriented app as well...)
Exporting the session to a format, that the videomakers prefer could be
somewhat more challenging then to export a classic stereo-file for CD/LP....

Dolby-Surround encoding and the like are a completely different matter

good luck ;-)

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