Free starter pack of video clips

An issue that keeps coming up in workshops is how confusing it can be simply to prepare video files for specific uses. Indeed, the wonderful world of video codecs (literally COmpression and DECompression), with their mysterious names (eg H.264) can be intimidating even to the most savvy tech person. With this in mind, we’re making available a small set of preprepared video clips and previews that can be used by anyone to allow them to just get on with exploring Korsakow, and not to have to worry about prepping them so they’ll work properly. These were originally put together by the very talented Steve Anderson for the recent Korsakow workshop at USC. All the files are at a manageable frame size and file size, and have been lovingly compressed using H.264. They were sourced from quirky old public domain films found at the invaluable Prelinger Archives. (Like all Public Domain materials, they are free to use for any purpose whatsoever without asking anyone’s permission, ever. Including us. So don’t ask. Just. Do. It.) Download the entire package here (143MB, zip).