My EVE

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:

1. Provide easy access to usable assets for videomakers and streamers, reducing the amount of time needed to create awesome player made videos
2. Encourage more content creation by players
3. Reach a higher quality bar for player-made videos, but at the same time differentiate between official videos and player-made ones
4. 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 We also might find that this forum thing is outdated and we should switch to Slack or Trello or something similar to have the conversation.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 manifest@ccpgames.com

EDIT (w/ clarification posted below): 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.

**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!

Let us go forth and provide creative input for the universe!

Look forward to the results of this.

Nice

Does this mean I will finally be able to easily use sound effects as alerts on my phone?

On SiSi only it would be amazing to have some slash commands for the following:-

Turn off your Avatar
Turn off clipping so you can "fly" around the CQ/hanger and get video/screenshots at different angles.

Tried to find someone at Fanfest to talk to this about after a few others said it was a good idea but was unable to find anyone.

l0rd carlos also made a great comment about ships on green screens. We can have avatars on green screen, why not ship previews?

A few things off the top of my head, I'm sure I'll add more later.

- Doing the production of streaming tournaments, I would love to have a good transition video(s) for between matches. Something basic, but action filled that people could add their own custom graphics and audio to if they wish. Perhaps multiple videos that are 8-10 seconds long to give some variety. Splash screens would be nice as well, for the 5-10 minutes between the matches, but those are easily made by players.

Examples from previous works:

• Intro To Match
• Out from Match
• Between Match Splash
• Combined

Side note: The transition videos from AT are nice. Having a few of those without logos or audio would be fantastic. Allowing people to customize them to their liking.

- Overlays would be good, but for streaming it may be a bit difficult as people have their UI setup differently. I'm not a particularly heavy user in overlays while streaming, but some might like something to put around/over their HUD, or on top of system location, etc, that is very EVE themed and static sized. Even better if they are themed with the races so that people can use with whatever ship they're flying.

- Text-less logos would be a good addition. Some EVE logos are pretty recognizable, but not having the text there for people to add their own would be great!

Example: Remove the EVE

- Audio would be nice. Aura for sure, weapons firing, AB/MWD audio, etc.

- A tutorial for EVE Probe would be amazing. I know a lot of people that were interested in playing around with it, and while incredibly creative and smart, ultimately don't have the experience that others have when it comes to that kind of thing. I know my personal experience with it had me jumping from tutorials of one app to another, trying to piece together bits from reading and videos to make it work. Besides just setting it up, a little bit of how to work the cameras, create explosions, etc I think would go really far.

I'm sure I'll think of more.

What do you know, I've been talking about this the last couple of days and was just getting ready to release some After effects assets for everyone!

Those 3d models with textures etc ready to go for things like blender would be the best thing you could release imo, as they seem to be the hardest to get working properly.

Thank you for putting this together! I'm eager to see what comes in the first round of assets. Hopefully this, and EVE Probe, gets us at least a little bit closer to an EVE version of Source Filmmaker. Maybe for the 20th anniversary. Host another video contest and give players the ultimate tool. Maybe even promote the winning entry as an official trailer. Just a thought. :D

This may fall under the "Overlay graphics" area, but I love the text transitions that can be seen in some of the more recent official videos. Using This Is EVE as an example, the way the corp/alliance/location text gets printed onto each scene (and the subtle accompanying sound effect) is fantastic in its simplicity. I don't know if that's a transition or some kind of script or what, but I would love to be able to use it.

I'm sure I'll have other ideas as they come to me. Thank you for continuing to support player-made content!

What imo _really_ would make this feature insane, if i somehow could activate to "record" whats happening in my game/on my grid in terms of ships moving/interacting with each other - which then gives me a small logfile of what happened so i can put it into the "EVE Video Maker" to polish, change angles and do awesome work.

This would finally make it possible for really epic videos/movies of Space Battles.
Even if this initially comes with heavy restrictions as "cannot record more than 20 Player Ships on one Grid".

But CCPlease, i want to make epic videos of the battles i participate in!

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.