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.

See Also

Demo Recording

External Links

Guides

• 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)
• PARTSNAME stuff: a list (04/02/08)
• TOONS ON FILM Hero Con Workshop Handout (10/23/08)
• TOONS ON FILM Hero Con Workshop Videos (11/18/08)
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Part II: How'd She Do That?
  • Part III: The Art of Demoediting
  • Part IV: Putting It All Together
  • Part V: Wrapping Things Up
  • Part VI: Last Minute Stuff

Demo Tools & Applications

• Zloth's CoH Demo Launcher
• Zloth's CoH Demo Editor
• Storm_Knight's CoH demo editor
• Balshor's Demo Editor (This link may be an interim location pending a more formal move.)
• TweakCoH by Circeus
• CoH Demo Analyzer by Circeus
• City of Heroes Poser by Leandro (under development)
• 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.
• Quick Media Converter - Video and audio converter - Free (Donation Supported)
• 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. (Site currently unavailable, but asserts that it will be returning.)
• 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).

Video Hosting Sites

Video Specific Hosting Sites

• YouTube
• w00t Studios
• blip.tv
• Break
• DropShots
• Google Video
• Jumpcut
• Megavideo
• Metacafe
• Photobucket
• Putfile
• Revver
• YouShare
• V:social
• Veoh
• Vimeo
• WeGame
• Yahoo! Video
• ZippyVideos.com

General File Hosting Sites

• Box.net
• FileFront
• The Internet Archive

Video Hosting Information & Resources

• List of video sharing websites - List of video hosting sites at Wikipedia
• Comparison of video services - Comparison of video hosting features at Wikipedia