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CCP Manifest
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Posted - 2015.05.29 13:45:48 -
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Storytellers and filmmakers of EVE!
As a long term project we are looking at creating an official videomaker's toolkit for EVE Online, similar to the Fansite toolkit with useful things like the IEC and quick clips to help make making EVE videos easier. It will grow over time and be hosted on a DropBox. You'll be free to use whatever you see in there to make videos, and we'll make sure all the legal stuff is clear and easy.
The goals of this project:
- Provide easy access to usable assets for videomakers and streamers, reducing the amount of time needed to create awesome player made videos
- Encourage more content creation by players
- Reach a higher quality bar for player-made videos, but at the same time differentiate between official videos and player-made ones
- Find out what we can do to help encourage and support the EVE video making and streaming communities at many different levels.
Ideally this Videomaker Tookit would eventually include:
- Audio - Aura, music, sound effects and possibly more
- Video - UI elements, transitions, beginning and end "plates", other short clips from previous videos
- Overlay Graphics of various sorts, font packs
Right now, we want your input before we go too far down the road of making new assets. We'd love to hear your impressions, things you WISH we could provide, current challenges for making videos, etc.**
The video team who is helping me put this together might jump in and out of this thread to ask for clarifications and provide some tests. We also might find that this forum thing is outdated and we should switch to Slack or Trello or something similar to have the conversation. But we gotta start somewhere.
I will edit this post with any updates. If you don't want to post here but still have feedback, please consider emailing me at [email protected]
**Please note this will not include access to the internal video making software our video team uses, at least not in any near term timeframe. Wanted to get that out of the way now as the hurdles for doing so are just too high. Perhaps EVE Probe will get us closer though!
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CCP Manifest
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Posted - 2015.05.29 14:57:11 -
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Just a quick note for clarification. This is not a software related solution a la Valve's Source Filmmaker. It is a collection of assets to use in making your own videos. Obviously I'd love a software solution or other in-game features to make it easier to make videos (you should see my camera controls wishlist I sent to the dev team!), but this is a bit more low tech than what some of you are responding with.
Just wanted to manage expectations on that a bit for this particular project. Suggestions for a video making tool (as opposed to toolkit) and in game stuff like green screens are very much welcome though and I will take notes on them as well.
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CCP Manifest
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Posted - 2015.06.10 20:09:26 -
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Mizhir wrote:Am I the only one who got Lord Maldoror's voice in my head when reading his posts? No no you are not. Wanted to stop in and say thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Should be kicking this off relatively soon.
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CCP Manifest
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Posted - 2015.09.24 22:52:36 -
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Just wanted to update with a quick note that the first video tests are in production/concepting right now and I haven't forgotten about this project.
Thanks to all the amazing player videos that have come out in the meantime while you are waiting for my slow ass!
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CCP Manifest
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Posted - 2016.02.17 22:30:48 -
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Oh hello everyone! Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been otherwise quite busy. Chance Ravinne brought this up again today and helped me realize I hadn't revisited this in a while, so here I am.
The past several months have kept this slowly heating up, but on the backburner. Over the months..
- I've scoped out the project more myself, including crowdsourcing some ideas and reading through this thread
- I've got all the music gathered, and some of the sounds I want to include
- I've got a fair amount of images ready that are already available
- I've had several meetings on scope, particularly with the trailer team on new video elements I'd like to add
- I think I've nailed down the right hosting solution
- Had a scope discussion with the graphics team about custom graphics
- I had a preliminary discussion with the legal department on how best to handle this (likely will be very very similar to the Fansite Toolkit and 3rd Party Dev stuff, but I hope simpler)
- I had a brief exchange with the audio guys for a little custom short musical pieces to go along with it
- I've made a couple proof of concepts creatives with my rudimentary skills.
That lead me to a place where I realize that even though I scoped it down considerably, this would be a second-level project, especially for the graphics/video teams. They might be able to work on it some here and there, but honestly couldn't promise anything. That isn't a reflection of their enthusiasm for the idea or their will to get the best player creators in gaming some extra cool little bits and bobs, it's just the hard facts of them having a crappton of other work that many more people are dependent on.
So right now I'm still left to do the following
- vRefine some of the proofs of concept creatives and get them at least to approval level. That means this won't be as super polished as if an uber professional did it, but at least I am learning new skills!
- Take the proof of concepts back tot he audio team for them to assess whether they can shoehorn in some time for extra audio
- Have a final discussion with the legal department
- Put out the first version in the wild and expand from there.
Good news: I am moving more of my official job over to social media, which means I can get away with spending some more time on this project. I am also less chained to formal processes than before, since a more collective approach to this project isn't currently in the cards due to the above. I should also have some time in the next few weeks to do so before the All-Consuming-Maw-That-Is-Fanfest eats me alive as it does every year.
Bad news: The first version won't quite be what I wanted to shoot out as the first version. Obviously it's way later than I wanted. My proof of concepts could suck and not get approved.
So, there you go. Hope that update helped shed some light on the project status.
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