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'''Theater''' is a new feature for users in ''[[Halo 3]]'' and ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''. It allows them to access [[Saved film|saved films]] of all [[Campaign]], [[Matchmaking]], [[Custom Game]]s, [[Forge]], and [[Firefight]] games that they have played. The 25 most recent games are featured under "Recent Films" in Halo 3. Users are in control of the gameplay footage they played; fast forward, slow down, pause and taking screenshots from every film. The films that users are fond of can even be saved into a library of films.
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Film clips are recorded sections of a film, only usable in Halo 3, not in Halo 3: ODST. Pressing "Y" during a replay enables you to move around as in a regular film. However, these are only collections of game information readable only through the Xbox 360 and cannot be used on a PC, with the exception that the player has a video capture card. Screenshots can be saved to a computer as an actual image if posted from a file share on [[Bungie.net]]. Popular or highly rated films will be shown in the [[Bungie Favorites]] list.
'''Theater''' is a feature available for use in ''[[Halo 3]]'', ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' and ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.
 
Every time a player plays a game of [[Campaign]] or [[Multiplayer]], the game will automatically be saved into a list of up to twenty-five recent films, which players can watch at their leisure. Players can save up to one-hundred saved films. Players have a number of abilities while in-film; play, pause, fast-forward, take screenshot, rewind and record film clip, however only the later two are only available in Multiplayer clips, due to loading issues in campaign. Film clips are shorter, recorded sections of a film, only usable in ''Halo 3'', not in ''Halo 3: ODST''.
 
Pressing "Y" while watching a film will enable players to roam around the space in real-time. Despite popular belief, saved films are only collections of game information readable only through the Xbox 360, thus cannot recorded onto a PC without the use of [[Bungie Pro]] film rendering, or a video capture card. Screenshots can be saved to a computer as an actual image if posted from a file share on [[Bungie.net]]. Popular or highly rated films will be shown in the [[Bungie Favorites]] list.


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*Theater, along with [[Forge]], is set to return in [[Halo: Reach]].
*If you pause a Theater film while a character is speaking, they will continue to speak until the end of that sentence, and if that character is present at the scene, their mouths will still move, but nothing else will. This can cause a glitch where [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]]'s hologram will appear, and he will make his speech while you have the game paused, and then when you press play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything.
*Many people have saved their films onto a computer. This, however requires the use of a capture card which records TV onto a computer.
*Even though you can save clips and rewind in the Theater on the [[Multiplayer]] games played, it is not possible to do so in the [[Halo 3#Campaign|Halo 3 Campaign]] games. This is because the loading sequence in Campaign is linear, and rewinding will make the film have to load the process again. For Film Clips, Bungie explains that it just doesn't work well in Campaign.
*If you pause a Theater film while a character is speaking, he/she will still continue to speak until the end of that sentence, and if that character is present at the scene, their jaws (or mandibles for [[Elites]]) will still move, but nothing else will. This can cause a glitch where [[Prophet of Truth|Truth]]'s hologram will appear, and he will make his speech while you have the game paused, and then when you press play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything.
**This is also true for running the video at faster or slower than normal speed. Rather than slowing down or speeding up the sound, which would change the pitch, it simply plays the sound whenever it starts. So if the footage is slowed, sounds are spread apart, where if it is sped up the sounds are compressed, with more sounds playing at the same time.
**This is also true for running the video at faster or slower than normal speed. Rather than slowing down or speeding up the sound, which would change the pitch, it simply plays the sound whenever it starts. So if the footage is slowed, sounds are spread apart, where if it is sped up the sounds are compressed, with more sounds playing at the same time.
*A similar glitch happens when you fast forward through a section with much dialog. Some lines will play before they are supposed to, resulting in overlapping sentences.
**A similar glitch occurs when you fast forward through a section with much dialog. Some lines will play before they are supposed to, resulting in overlapping sentences.
*Halo 3 is said to be mostly made for [[machinima]]'s because of the theater option.
*Theater has made [[machinima]] much easier to produce, as ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' and ''Halo 2'' required people to film scenes using the first person perspective of another player in-game.
*Halo 3's theater mode has made it far more easier to film [[machinima]] because of more free camera movements as opposed to Halo:CE and Halo 2 [[machinima]] that are made with a hypercam and the standard HUD view.
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Theater is a feature available for use in Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach.

Every time a player plays a game of Campaign or Multiplayer, the game will automatically be saved into a list of up to twenty-five recent films, which players can watch at their leisure. Players can save up to one-hundred saved films. Players have a number of abilities while in-film; play, pause, fast-forward, take screenshot, rewind and record film clip, however only the later two are only available in Multiplayer clips, due to loading issues in campaign. Film clips are shorter, recorded sections of a film, only usable in Halo 3, not in Halo 3: ODST.

Pressing "Y" while watching a film will enable players to roam around the space in real-time. Despite popular belief, saved films are only collections of game information readable only through the Xbox 360, thus cannot recorded onto a PC without the use of Bungie Pro film rendering, or a video capture card. Screenshots can be saved to a computer as an actual image if posted from a file share on Bungie.net. Popular or highly rated films will be shown in the Bungie Favorites list.

Trivia

  • If you pause a Theater film while a character is speaking, they will continue to speak until the end of that sentence, and if that character is present at the scene, their mouths will still move, but nothing else will. This can cause a glitch where Truth's hologram will appear, and he will make his speech while you have the game paused, and then when you press play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything.
    • This is also true for running the video at faster or slower than normal speed. Rather than slowing down or speeding up the sound, which would change the pitch, it simply plays the sound whenever it starts. So if the footage is slowed, sounds are spread apart, where if it is sped up the sounds are compressed, with more sounds playing at the same time.
    • A similar glitch occurs when you fast forward through a section with much dialog. Some lines will play before they are supposed to, resulting in overlapping sentences.
  • Theater has made machinima much easier to produce, as Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 required people to film scenes using the first person perspective of another player in-game.