Editing Audio and Video with PC-BSD
Remixing NIN - The Greater Good
Today I installed Ardour on PC-BSD to test open source audio editing & mixing capabilities on a BSD-based desktop. I found that it’s both very possible and fun! To create the demo video I went to pbidir.com and downloaded Ardour, Audacity, Kdenlive, and recordMyscreen.
Editing Video with Kdenlive on PC-BSD
After those downloads were finished I went to ninremixes.com/multitracks.php and downloaded “The Greater Good” source tracks. These tracks were AIF files, which Ardour couldn’t import, so I loaded them up in Audacity and had them all encoded to WAV format in about 10 minutes.
I imported the WAV files into my new Ardour project and started to arrange a 2 minute clip of the song. I didn’t do much “remixing”, but the point was to showcase the manipulation of sound on PC-BSD. Taking this a step further, I loaded my NIN Ardour project and started recording a video using recordMyscreen.
Next, I opened Kdenlive and imported the OGV video output from recordMyscreen and the MP3 audio from Ardour. Once the video finished rendering I uploaded it to youtube.
Watch the video:
