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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">In my menu section Sound & Video, Ardour5
is now added.</div>
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roman,serif">I opened Ardour. It guided me through the setup
prior to first usage.</div>
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roman,serif">I completed that, accepting defaults.</div>
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roman,serif">I tried to start a New Session, but I got a
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roman,serif"> "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine.<br>
Latency calibration requires a working audio interface."<br>
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roman,serif">I have not been able to get past that.</div>
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<p>You can choose between ALSA sound system or the more advanced
Jack sound server. I would recommend using ALSA for now. Select
that as your "audio system" when creating a new Ardour session.
Something like 44.1khz, 1024 buffer and 2 periods should be fine
for most internal audio cards. <br>
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<p>Later, you can play with Jack. Use qjackctl to manage jackd, it
makes it easy to view your application sound routing and change
settings. Also, if you have two jack compatible softwares you can
use jack to start both applications. An example would be to use
one application to play a composition or a video and another to
record. Jack can start the recording and playing at the same time
and handle all the routing as well. Very cool stuff can be done
with Jack.<br>
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roman,serif">On a positive note, I am able to use Audacity,
and I'm not in a big hurry.</div>
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roman,serif">Based on what you, Jason, wrote, I feel
inclined to get Ardour working, so I can use this. While
it's nice to have options, I agree that I may as well go
straight to the best.</div>
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roman,serif">I'm looking forward to getting Ardour
configured/set up, so I can use this for most everything I
want to do with audio recording.</div>
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<p>This might help you get started
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak</a></p>
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roman,serif">Here's what I'm doing now with video and audio
editing. I will probably work on other projects in the
future. This is just my current project. I want to offer my
yoga instruction by video. So, I am recording videos of me
doing specific yoga routines. When I have access, I'm
filming from two different angles. I will discard the audio
portion recorded while filming. Next, I do voice-over which
is me speaking instructions about how to do what I'm
demonstrating in the video. I might add a third audio track
of background music. For this project, I think the audio
editing is simple, and I can do this in kdenlive. I don't
see any way to record audio in kdenlive. So, it may be best
to record the voice-over audio in ardour.<br>
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<p>Yes, ardour with xjadeo seems like a perfect solution for your
use case. "Session" -> "Open Video.." This will import your
video and add it to your audio timeline so you can do voice overs
and back tracks in sync with your vid, etc.<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">Equipment I've started with now is my
smartphone to record the video and the mic in my laptop to
record my voice-over.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new
roman,serif">I think I found a Zoom H2 from Amazon.com for
$170. Is there a problem with using the mic in my laptop?<br>
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<p>Your phone and laptop mic are not going to sound very good. You
might be able to fix this with some filters (normalize, eq,
compression). I only recommend the H2 because it sounds great and
is portable and simple to use. <br>
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<p>You should look into condenser microphones for recording onto
your laptop (ardour) directly. Maybe someone else has some
experience with a inexpensive setup. I have a maudio fast track
pro, it has phantom power for the mic. All this stuff can be found
second hand for fairly cheap, just be careful for compatibility
with gnulinux when buying audio interfaces. I know maudio is
usually supported. I'm sure there is more supported hardware than
when I was shopping for this stuff. The manufacturer won't be much
help in this regard, so you might need to dig around the forums or
try it yourself. <br>
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<p>windscreens are your friend ;-) <br>
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