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mark stavar schrieb:
> A thought: Ardour is a growing, robust DAW -- should you consider using
> it as the base for Lumiera? Sonic Foundry did that very successfully
> years ago with Vegas (now owned by Sony). The audio/DAW model is a
> suprisingly good fit for video (I have used a number of NLE's and Vegas
> is streets ahead of the others, IMHO).
>
> I just figured that so much of the engine and the framework is already
> there, the design is good and clean, and it would give you a head start.
Hello Mark,
basically you are right; I wouldn't immediately outrule the possibility
of building on ardour. Btw, I am doing much work with both applications
and know them intimately.
If you take a closer look, you'll find that, while generally they share
a similar approach ("Non Linear Editing"), the special way they approach
the design is quite different and can't be brought to match easily.
To elaborate on this: The whole core of Ardour is build on using the
JACK audio connection server/toolkit. So the prevalent theme is to
have *one* basic underlaying media format (i.e. PCM sound with a
*single* sample rate), and all is about connecting several processing
units, which may be internal busses, sends, plugins or any other
LADSPA plugin/application running somewhere on the system. This design
is indeed very appealing when it comes to sound/audio production. But
for what we expect of an advanced video NLE, it would pose more problems
to be solved than it would help us getting ahead, because it doesn't
provide a solution for most of the specific problems encountered here.
Remember, in video production we have always a combination and mix of
several media stream types, we are frequently working with various
frame and sample rates, codecs, stream types etc. at the same time,
and the aspect of "composition" out of small chunks with transitions,
masks and plugins, together with excessive use of automation
("keyframes") plays a much more central role as in the average work
done carried out with a DAW.
To give you a simple example: with ardour's design, you can't apply
an EQ on a single audio clip in a non destuctive manner. It just
wouldn't make any sense here. Rather, you'd had to create a bus,
wire it with the EQ plugin and put the clip on the corresponding new
track. For audio production, this workflow is fine (albeit sometimes
limiting when it comes to sound design). But for video/film editing,
this simply isn't the way you work most of the time.
Cheers,
Hermann Vosseler
(aka "Ichthyo")
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