[Ardour-Dev] ardour video track

[Grammostola Rosea]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Grammostola Rosea
> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Altough... doesn't make it Ardour more vulnerable  for bugs and more
>> difficult to maintain adding all those 'new features' and doesn't it make
>> ardour too heavy...
>>     
>
> although robin has probably torn apart a lot of the old code, this
> feature is actually based on code that was added to ardour nearly 5
> years ago as part of the animatics project from the center for music
> technology @ university of glasgow. the basic idea of a track that
> displays RGB(A) graphics along the timeline and gets the data from an
> external server was added then. robin has "just" made this work for
> video rather than the somewhat different data that the animatics
> project was dealing with. i stress the "just" because there is really
> a lot more involved in his work. but the basic idea is not new.
>
>   
>> what is wrong with just Ardour and the great app Xjadeo?
>>     
>
> given that robin wrote (x)jadeo too, i am sure he is aware of the
> plusses & minuses of both approaches.
>
>   
Ok, I'm following this with interest. Good luck Robin!

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