Summary of project activities for September 2021.
LUNATICS PRODUCTION:
Worked some on animating SU-1-B (Georgiana with the Tech) and tried an experimental solution to animating SU-1-C to explain the “this doesn’t feel straight” dialog, which seems promising, although I need to repeat it.
Discovered a problem with fonts breaking in “Lunatics!” Inkscape SVG files in my source tree, but also solved it by using Inkscape’s custom font directory setting.
Finished condensing source file trees and started consolidating the “Publications” directory, including product designs from the “Business” branch of the project.
Refactoring to a new workflow with Kdenlive. It turns out that Kdenlive source files are legal MLT files, and so they can be loaded into Kdenlive as clips. This means it’s possible to nest the Kdenlive files.
This also provides a way to get around the problem of replacing video files with image sequence files (which Kdenlive handles differently). By wrapping the shot (whether frame sequence or video) with a Kdenlive file, we make them look the same to the calling Kdenlive edit. Also, I discovered that Kdenlive will now use relative links when working with clips stored below the edit file or in the same directory. This provides a way to adjust the Kdenlive files to have proper relative paths in my source tree.
Experimented with 5.1 sound mixes for some of the music tracks, after I got my 5.1 sound system working again.
Tested Audacity 3.0.4, which has the new unitary save format. That seems to work okay, but there doesn’t seem to be much else in the way of new features (which is not really a bad thing).
PUBLICATIONS:
Worked on several “Lunatics!” product projects, including designing a vinyl soundtrack album and getting a prototype of it produced via Kunaki.
