Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmaker

Source Filmmaker (SFM for short) is a tool used to create most of the videos running the Source Engine. Source Filmmaker is a video capture and editing application that works from inside the Source engine. It allows users to record themselves many times over in the same scene, creating the illusion of many participants, as well as supporting a wide range of cinematographic effects and techniques such as motion blur, Tyndall effects, Dynamic Lighting, and depth of field. (Motion blur has now been added to the games themselves, though only when the view is moving at high speeds—not per-object as in the filmmaker. Per-object motion blur is in the replay system of TF2 beta.)

The tool hasn't been publicly released by Valve, but was leaked in the original Team Fortress 2 beta release. Following the discovery of the program's files inside the Team Fortress 2 beta, the community succeeded in creating a (mostly) stable version. Since then, many fan videos have been created with the tool.

Features

SFM allows you to:

• Record footage into:

• uncompressed AVI file
• TGA files

• Frames of Footage, user defined
• Single Frame, similar to a ScreenShot

• WAV files of sounds
• (All can be done simultaneously)

• Record yourself performing one part, then rewinding and record yourself performing another
• Publish videos directly to Steam (option is available in-game, but nothing happens when selected)

• This option was most likely used by Valve, does not work for current, unofficial version.

• Control camera placement and movement
• Add per-object motion blur y modificar la profundidad del campo
• Importar escenas coreográficas
• Habilidad de manipular la posición de los huesos y animaciones faciales de los personajes

Grabando con otros juegos

Importante archivos de otros juegos Source, es posible usar Source Filmmaker con juego ajenos a Team Fortress 2. Sin embargo, por la complicada naturaleza del programa, pueden experimentarse muchos problemas.

Estreno público

Como Source Filmmaker es un producto de uso para la empresa y no diseñado por los miembros de la comunidad, no se puede esperar una versión pública. Valve no ha presentado ningún interés en publicar esta aplicación ni ha dicho nada sobre la versión extraída.

Producciones oficiales de Valve

Valve ha usado Source Filmmaker para sus traileres de juego y cortos de animación, el mejor ejemplo son los videos de Conoce al Equipo. Además de videos de Team Fortress 2, Valve ha usado Source Filmmaker con Left 4 Dead 1 y 2, Day of Defeat: Source, al igual que con Half-Life 2 para anunciar su estreno en Macintosh.

Galería

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Links externos

• Source Filmmaker Wikia - Wikia no oficial dedicado a Source Filmmaker.
• Source Filmmaker Machinima - Sitio dedicado a su desarrollo y tutoriales.