Demo Editing/Additional Information

Overview

The following links provide additional information on or related to Demo Editing and movie-making, including guides, tools, and associated resources.

Internal Links

Demo Recording

External Links

Guides

• Basic City of Heroes Demo Recording
• Custom Demo Creation Guide (12/04/04)
• Demo File Format FAQ (07/07/04)
• Storm Knight's Video Guide (08/07/04)
• Screenshot and Demo Guide v2 (12/09/04)
• A Kitty's guide to making CoH movies! (12/21/04)
• Demo Editing and Videos - The end-to-end guide (07/20/05)
• Paris' Demo Guide (06/01/06)
• DEMO File Format: Addendum (character parts) (07/16/06)
• Toons on Film City Scoop article (02/08/08)
• Demo Edit Tutorial: Jumping on a moving truck (02/21/08)

Demo Tools & Applications

• Zloth's CoH Demo Launcher
• Zloth's CoH Demo Editor
• Storm_Knight's CoH demo editor
• Balshor's Demo Editor
• TweakCoH by Circeus
• CoH Demo Analyzer by Circeus
• Tools of the Trade (list of links to tools and applications)

Video Capture & Editing

Applications & Tools

• FRAPS - Video Capture (Windows) - Limited Free Functionality (Fee For Full Version)
• GameCam - Video Capture (Windws) - Limited Free Functionality (Fee For Full Version)
• TAKSI - Video Capture (Windows) - Free (Open Source) - Described as an open source alternative to FRAPS.
• VirtualDub - Video Capture (Windows) - Free (Open Source)
• WeGame client - Video Capture (Windows) - Free - Video capture companion to the WeGame.com hosting site; advertises an HD mode for machinima & direct upload capability to their site.
• Windows Movie Maker - Video Editor (Windows) - Free
• Windows Media Encoder - Video Capture (Windows) - Free
• Avidemux - Video Editor (Windows, Linux, Mac OS) - Free (Open Source)
• Cinelerra - Video Editor (Linux) - Free (Open Source)
• Kino - Video Editor (Linux) - Free (Open Source)
• LiVES - Video Editor (Linux) - Free (Open Source)
• Ulead VideoStudio Free Trial - Video Editor (Windows) - Trial
• MMConvert - Tool for converting between different video and audio formats.
• Audacity - Audio Editor and Recorder (Windows) - Free (Open Source)

Information & Resources

• List of screencasting software - List of video capture applications at Wikipedia
• List of video editing software at Wikipedia
• Comparison of video editing software at Wikipedia
• Digital audio editor - List of audio editing applications at Wikipedia

Other Demo-Related Links

• City of Heroes Codex - Demo Model, MOV, FX, & Maps data; plus additional info.
• Mantid's Animated Emote Guide - Provides images of all known emotes; useful for seeing what the emote MOVs actually do.
• City of Guides Demo Data - Demo data resource with demo upload/data extraction function.
• Random Dice - City Of Heroes Demo File Information - Demo data resource with demo upload/data extraction function.
• CoH Sound Files for public access - Official download site with mp3 copies of in-game music (in the music directory).
• CoH Splasher - Customizes game login screen, character selection screen, & other content (such as with demo-edited screenshots).