When I was thinking about a possible side project of a machinima two issues raised themselves: equipment and copyright infringement issues. When searching various avenues I found out that;
In terms of actual filming I would need a capture card (probably external as its for more non tech peeps) and editing wise I would probably need a sound editing software like audacity and general editing, but theres the macs in school so I might use them to edit the raw footage.
The copyright issue is MUCH more complicated and really varies depending on the people or game involved. So far the most love i've got from one of these companies is Microsoft who have kindly got game content usage rules. They basically say not to base the story of the machinima on the backstory of the game, not to use abusive or racist content and not to use the soundeffects or music of Anything but Halo 3 as they have a special agreement with them. So far so good then. The list of games they have on the site that could be used are :
Age of Empires (all versions)
Flight Simulator (all versions)
Forza Motorsport (all versions)
Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo 2, and Halo 3
Kameo
Perfect Dark Zero
Project Gotham Racing (all versions)
Rise of Nations (all versions)
Shadowrun
Viva Piñata
This narrows my options alot but I will try to see what i can do to broaden them by checking various developers and EULA's.
Peace out and off to do some Art Hwk!
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