Timely Snow

In late 2000, we started a project that involved working extensively with digital video, featuring multiple languages, multiple (ok, two) synchronized video, and transcripts. We learned how to get such video onto computers, do light editing, compress it into formats tractable with then-current computer technology.

Right now, one of the decisions is problematic in hindsight. This was using the RealVideo format, primarily because it worked well with the SMIL markup language. That format hasn’t aged well, and in particular isn’t supported well in the Macintosh world.

Recently, we’ve begun a new video-based project, with the opportunity to make new decisions about equipment, formats, etc. The next posting will discuss the decisions we’ve made, and we’ll see if we’ve learned anything from this experience…

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