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Brett McCoy wrote:

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> Michael T D Nelson wrote:

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>> I've been thinking about writing and producing some instrumental

>> tuition videos. I have a mini-DV firewire camcorder available.

>>

>> I was wondering if anyone knew of any (GPL) software I can run on

>> Linux to create these with.

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>

> For the video portion, Kino and Cinelerra are your best bets for

> handling DV. 

Thanks. I'll check these out properly soon.
> There are lots of audio choices, but your biggest problem is going to be

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> with synchronization. I think both video apps can synch with SMPTE, so

> you would need to figure out a way to use this with, say, Ardour or

> Rosegarden. I haven't kept up on Kino development lately, maybe it has

> more advanced synch options now (it would be nice if they included Jack

> synch!)

Yep, that's one of my major concerns. It would be awesome if *any* of

these programs were to include JACK synchronisation. In fact, for me to

do proper *multimedia* production on Linux, I would imagine it to be

essential in the long term.
The other concern is the process of creating computer-generated video

footage of music notation. Does anyone know of a way to do this, short

of creating lots of images of notation (with, say, different notes or

measures highlighted), and editing them into an animation manually?
I guess I could brush up my OpenGL and C and have a go at writing a

utility myself that converts MIDI into video notation...
Imagine a more serious version of that Nintendo GameCube Donkey Konga

bongo game... with proper notation, multiple instruments... Maybe you

could even plug in a MIDI instrument & it could grade your

performance... It could be an awesome music tuition tool!
I'm having far too many ambitious ideas today!
Thanks,

Michael