Instructions
Microsoft Windows
Prepare your footage
Choose a video loop of maximum 250 frames. Convert it to a .png files sequence, or a quicktime movie. Dimensions must be 320x240 pixels. Quicktime movies framerate must be 25 frames per second. Virtualdub, a free software, can help for this conversion.
Compress your footage to the k17 format
If you're welcomed by an error message when starting Kouky v17, download and install the windows component ".NET framework 2.0" from microsoft.com.
Load your quicktime movie or your bitmap sequence.
Choose a compression quality rate: 1 or 2 should be fine.
Press the "start compression" button.
If the amount of "tiles" reach 65 000, kouky will crash. If so, increase the compression rate and retry. Once the compression is completed, a .k17 file will be created next to your footage sources.
Mac OS X
Prepare your footage
Choose a quicktime movie of maximum 250 frames. Dimensions must be 320x240 pixels and framerate must be 25 frames per second.
Compress your footage to the k17 or k18 format
Start Kouky
Load your quicktime movie
Choose a compression quality rate: 1 or 2 should be fine.
Press the "compress" button.
Version 18 is recommended for Super Pikix, for other softwares, choose k17.
If the amount of "tiles" reach 65 000, kouky will crash. If so, increase the compression rate and retry. Once the compression is completed, a kouky file will be created next to your footage sources.
