Hi Mike On 5/2/20 11:24 AM, Mike Squires wrote: > I'm trying to build a toolkit to create videos of musicians playing > together as in the Chad LB video of Coltrane's "Giant Steps", but > using open source tools. I would like to do this in the Ubuntu Studio > environment rather than just installing AVLinux. > > I've done a little, including a video that merged a video track shot > with a smartphone with an audio track recorded using a Zoom H4 using > OpenShot; it worked well. However, OpenShot can't as far as I know > allow the windowing of video streams as the audio content changes and > I don't see that in KDEenlive either. > > One package that I have a little experience with is Cinelerra. I had > previously played with Cinelerra-CV but it appears that this project > has been merged with Cinelerra-GG. > > An attempt to install Cinelerra-GG from the cinelerra-gg.org web site > failed. There are instructions to install onto 18.04 but the > directory did not exist. I assume that the project has newer files > under development, but I don't really know that. > > On a chance I ran the code that downloaded the current cinelerra5 > source code from the "git" archive which worked. Much to my surprise, > given the complexity of the package, configuration, compilation, and > installation of cinelerra-gg succeeded using the instructions for a > "shared BUILD" in the README found in the root directory of the source > distribution. One warning: the compilation ran all 8 cores of my > dual quad Xeon at 100% for quite a while, although other applications > could be run at the same time they were definitely slowed down. > > It configured, compiled, and installed. Execution from a launcher > also worked. I've only read in a .MOV file that I'd already created > and played it, and that also worked. > > I'm quite a bit out of my depth as a programmer here, but I've been > compiling and installing things on my FreeBSD systems for years and > following that path seems to be working OK. > > The path used by others has been to send out a click track with charts > for the rhythm section. Once the rhythm section audio is merged it is > then send to the section leaders, if any and the result of that > process is merged and then sent to the section members. The result of > this process is then sent to the soloists and the final merge of audio > tracks and video tracks is then done on something like Cinelerra. The > individual recordings can be done as simply as shooting video from a > smartphone but a separate recording on better equipment is of course a > good idea. > Terribly sorry to tell you this, but you'd have to talk to the Cinelerra forum. Cinelerra is not in the Ubuntu repositories and is, therefore, not supported here.
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