After much time spent organizing聽our media assets and splicing audio, we鈥檙e ready to perform a few tests in Korsakow. Because of a small glitch, we鈥檙e opting to use the Beta version (and to become Beta testers).
Our process today consisted of first creating assets from the audio and stills we have. Using video seems the best way to match content to context, though we will likely test out other possibilities and combinations. Working with Korsakow is highly iterative. We鈥檙e constantly toggling between the interface and the preview mode, making adjustments, problem-solving, redirecting, and so on. Being two sets of eyes on this is proving very useful 鈥� Eric and mine鈥檚 attention seems to be grabbed by different parts of the project, which come together in a very complementary way.
Some preliminary questions specific to our project, and things we鈥檝e noted about the software:
- the video could be of much better quality than the suggested settings point to currently. The Web seems to handle video much better now, and so we鈥檙e going to try to push the quality up a little.
- could Korsakow eventually handle HD?
- a mobile-friendly version is in the works 鈥� important!
- will Korsakow eventually be able to handle links? does it already? to be explored鈥�
- we鈥檙e imagining a slideshow options but are unsure of our needs at this moments
- is there a way to make a SNU appear at the end of another 鈥� continuity 鈥� linearity 鈥� or is this anti-Korsakow?
- what could be done with PDFs/text 鈥� pull quotes?
- what to do with films for which we only have the audio (no visuals)
- how to archive silent films for which we don鈥檛 have the rights to visuals
Tips/things to remember:
- setting the playhead to 鈥渋nteractive鈥� 鈥� it鈥檚 not, by default
- duplicate a SNU if you want it to be a start SNU but also a SNU with a preview that you can see again
- there鈥檚 an invisible (?) glitch when setting the timecode for a SNU using the automatic way 鈥� makes the SNU switch order!
Helpful resources:
- Dayna鈥檚 awesome performance of Korsakow:聽.
- The Korsakow聽
That鈥檚 it for now. Prototype (of 3 SNU) should be good to go next week.
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