In Reach the only option to fast forward in theatre is too slow, and it can take 15 minutes just to make a 20 second clip. I would prefer it if every time the fast forward button is tapped the speed doubles. This has been pretty much standard on things like VCRs and DVDs as long as I can remember, so I’m sure it can be implemented as long as theatre is in Halo 4.
I couldn’t agree more. I hate it when something awesome happens at the end of a Big Team Battle game and it takes ten minutes to fast forward there.
Don’t forget it also works that way with the standard video player on the xbox.
What I think theater needs:
-Skip forward button (for browsing long videos)
-Press LT to rewind (For getting that perfect shot without constantly skipping back, missing your chance, skipping back, etc.)
I say they should add a seek function, skip to a certain time very quickly.
They should also add a timeline to the video, so that we can skip 10 minutes in a few seconds by clicking the upper end of the timeline, just like YouTube!
I have a feeling that 343 has something big in store that involves theater. They mentioned in one of their videos that every halo game has had a major addition in the ways it has allowed you to interact with friends. Halo 2 had online play, halo 3 had theater, file share, and forge. Reach didn’t really have anything new but it improved upon most of the halo 3 features. I wonder what we’re going to see in Halo 4? I think it would be really cool to have a spectator mode where you could join custom matches in spectator mode and see the game as it progresses. Spartan Ops is obviously new but I think they’ll have something beyond that.
Theater in general needs to be improved. It actually took a step in the wrong direction from 3 to Reach. I’m hoping it will become better than the one in Halo 3.
> What I think theater needs:
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> -Skip forward button (for browsing long videos)
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> -Press LT to rewind (For getting that perfect shot without constantly skipping back, missing your chance, skipping back, etc.)
A rewind function would be useful, especially if it can go through single frames at a time. It’s annoying trying to get that shot, going through frame by frame to get it, missing it, and having to skip back 10 seconds to try again.
Also, we need to be able to veiw movies with friends.
> Also, we need to be able to veiw movies with friends.
That would be great. While they’re at it, maybe the ability to take a film from 1st person when it is another player’s point of view you are filming from. It has to be 3rd person in Reach.
> What I think theater needs:
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> -Skip forward button (for browsing long videos)
>
> -Press LT to rewind (For getting that perfect shot without constantly skipping back, missing your chance, skipping back, etc.)
I’m pretty sure its a memory / processing thing. After all the theatre isn’t just playing a regular video file.
Some thing I want in theater is the ability to record say 10 secs of footage, pause the recording, skip further through the match then start recording again. For example, I want to record a certain killing spree but the kills were a few minutes apart, so using this feature I can record all the kills and leave out all the bits inbetween.