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:

This post may be considered trivial to most of you, but I thought I’d post it up here for the sake of documentation.

The production manager approached me this morning and asked if I could make a bootable ISO for a customer who needed to flash the BIOS of several servers.  I suggested they PXE boot, but because of the volume of servers they have with PXE booting disabled, human involvement would be unavoidable.

I have several bootable floppies for flashing BIOSes, but our customer had specific configuration requests, so I had to switch out the zipped ROM file located within the floppy image.  Simple enough, right?

The BoF was a success, we hung out with some linux guys and suggested they upgrade and install PC-BSD, to which they promptly obliged.

I am sitting in a group of 10 or so people, which is always a great time to focus on blogging from my piece of shit G1 phone that may crash and force before I am able to post. Don’t worry – I’ll include a couple of pics to prove I was paying attention.

Tradeshows like SCaLE are always a lot of fun because of the wide variety of people and distros in use. We give the linux dewdz a hard time – but that should be expected.

Okay, time to bring my attention away from the phone and back to my peepz.