[Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

[Keith J. <ke...@xe...>]

Hi Everybody -

I'm a complete newbie to MLT, having arrived here in my quest for a solution to a new project I'm involved in. We have the requirement to shoot a series of speakers at a conference using two cameras (MS and wide, probably HDV). There will be full-day sessions with each person speaking for about 5 or 10 minutes. We shall have to record both cameras simultaneously, with the ability to monitor/log in live or near-live time. Ultimately we need to clip up each individual speaker, cutting between the two cameras as required, so need to maintain sync between streams.

Ideally we could be doing the clipping up while the event is going on, so I've considered the option of capturing the HDV streams to one server for security and simultaneously copying them (or creating smaller proxies) to a machine where they can be scrubbed back and forth, marked up, then later conforming and transcoding the original streams as required.

I'm hoping someone here can give me a few pointers to how I should go about implementing this with MLT, which might make it less of an uphill struggle - especially as we have to have this working by November!

I'm sure MLT can do all this, but it's just a question of knowing where to start. If I can get a roadmap in my mind I'm keen to do all the work to get it together. Some links to any relevant working examples which can be compilied, tested and tinkered with would be very useful.

All suggestions and ideas gratefully received. And I look forward to sharing the results of this project with others using MLT.

Keith