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# Theater
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Choose **THEATER** beneath **OPTIONS** on the main menu. The library lists
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`iw4l-artifacts/demos/*.iw4ldemo` and `clips/*/clip.iw4ldemo`, newest first.
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Tiles show map, duration, type and preview over the MW2 menu background.
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Refresh after saving a film. Incompatible, empty or damaged recordings show an error.
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Use `record [name]` / `stoprecord` in a match, or `clip` for the recent buffer.
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Incompatible recordings require the build that recorded them. Player demos and clips
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capture the received world and ordinary/final killcams. Theater initially selects
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the killcam viewer; other perspectives share that viewer’s archived world.
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Play opens the local film editor. Space pauses; period advances one tick;
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comma goes back one tick; Left/Right seek five seconds; Home seeks the start.
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Down plays at half speed; Up at double speed. F2 toggles HUD, F3 cycles
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perspectives, and F4 toggles controls.
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Page Up/Down selects a player. Green timeline ticks mark kills; red ticks mark
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deaths for that player. Click the timeline to seek or use event buttons.
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Seeks reload the map while retaining edit decisions; decoding runs on a worker.
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Controller: D-pad/left stick moves the highlighted item; A selects and B exits.
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Start toggles controls, North toggles HUD, West pauses, bumpers select a player,
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triggers jump events. Left/Right on the timeline seeks five seconds.
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Tab/Shift+Tab and Enter also select controls; Tools/Select opens editing tools.
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Free camera uses WASD, Q/E and Shift; hold the right mouse button to look.
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K places a camera waypoint; Dolly follows a cubic position path and interpolates
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rotation and field of view on the same clock as the recorded scene. Blue timeline
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markers and waypoint rows show saved camera times. Edit pose jumps to a waypoint
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and restores its camera/FOV; Update pose replaces it, Set time moves it to the
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playhead, and Delete waypoint removes it. Placing a key at an existing time replaces
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that key. FOV controls edit free/chase/attached views; Dolly uses saved waypoint FOVs.
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Attach object follows a recorded projectile and holds its last camera when
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that object is unavailable. First-person and chase follow the selected player.
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Tap R/Record to start/end a segment; hold R/Screenshot for a clean screenshot
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and preview. Cuts can be trimmed at the playhead, reordered, deleted and previewed. Highlight reel builds merged windows around the selected
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player's recorded kills. Save/Load project uses a sibling `.theater.json` file
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and verifies the recording's digest before accepting saved edit decisions.
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Export demo saves a cut as a playable recording with simulation timestamps.
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Existing exports are preserved. Preview cuts plays edited order through seeks; export is a recording, not an encoded video or an upload.
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Recordings/clips receive sibling PNG previews; Theater captures missing previews
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when first watched. Films hold the final frame for editing; Play restarts them. Exit returns to the main menu. Back closes the library.
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`theater` opens the library; `theater play <name>` opens a film; `help theater`
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lists editor commands. Segment indices are zero-based.
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`replay` owns file decoding/recording; `theater` owns projects, timeline, browser,
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controls and cameras. Sharing, voting, party Theater, CODcast/PIP and video
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encoding are not implemented.
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