Blender & Ardour video editing

System: Kubuntu 10.04 Blender compiled with Jack support: Just enable Jack in user-config.py and download the -dev libraries of jackd. Jackd setup: frame/periods = 1024 (so that blender doesn't crash) Periods/Buffer = 4 Running with standard kernel, not rt, but with the ubuntu studio preparation tricks ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation ) Basically, adding these 3 lines to /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf @audio - rtprio 99 @audio - memlock unlimited @audio - nice -19 Here's a little tutorial I've written describing how to set this up: http://www.jpbouza.com.ar/ESP2/tutoriales/gnulinux/blenderardour/ (Open it using firefox, sorry IE users...) This was recorded running kde4 with composite effects enabled, Blender, Ardour, Audacity to record the audio and gtk-recordmydesktop recording at 1920x1200!!! In a 2 years old AMD Phenom x4.