Well I thought I’d have a clean slate look at Korsakow.

This is as far as I got. I imported some media, and then everything just seemed to be gibberish.

It looks like this software needs a major overhaul in the design and user interface department because it uses abbreviations that aren’t clear and also supplies you with a test project which comes with no information as to how it was made. Frustrating. I gather I’ll get better once it is explained and I’ve read more.

So as something that a normal user might want to dive in to, it’s not a great program. This does make me wonder exactly where the market is for the end products that Korsakow provides. I can see that it might be appealing, say for a person who has recently been on holiday and would like to share the experience with friends online, but they’d have to decipher the cryptic nature of the program first, so it’s hardly useful for them. On top of that I can’t see professionals in the media using this that often either. If you want to tell a story you make a Documentary with a narrative structure. Advertising could also use Korsakow I suppose but then again when you watch a Korsakow film you’re forced to open a new page and that’d just annoy the consumer. Not to mention that Flash works much better for that sort of thing.