[gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Hi all,

recently I've been doing some better recordings (proper mic into sound
system) along with my video camera.  This means that I have two sources
- one attached to the video, and one separate audio stream.

It's not practical for me to plug the sound system into the video camera
(although that would be ideal) because I move around too much, and a
cable would be ... not practical :)  And there are some "room noises"
that the video camera picks up that a directional mic doesn't.

aaaaanyway... I've just started using audacity to edit the "nice" audio,
and add some simple effects, and I want to recombine that with the
video, so that I have the nice audio + video.  So I would require a
program to do the following

     1. line up video and audio from separate files
     2. adjust the position of the audio frame by frame, so that I can
        get as-perfect-as-possible lip sync!
     3. video and audio not necessarily the same length
     4. mpeg or dvd compatible output
     5. mix two (or more?) audio sources into one audio+video file, with
        some simple crossfade
     6. Open software would be ideal (linux of course!), followed by
        closed-but-minimal-cost, followed by
        closed-costly-but-so-excellent-I-have-to-have-it!

If there is a choice, I would prefer that the video is left as unaltered
as possible by this program, to avoid going through too many
conversions.

I don't need any fancy editing or effects, I have other programs to do
that!

Any suggestions?  I have been looking on google, but there are so many
bad shareware programs that my results get flooded with rubbish!

TIA,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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