Editing Theater

{{Status|Gameplay}}
[[File:Theater Droid.jpg|thumb|260px|The menu background image for Theater in ''Halo: Reach''.]] 
'''Theater''' was a feature first introduced in ''[[Halo 3]]'' that allowed players to review their gameplay footage in [[wikipedia:Real-time computing|real-time]]. Due to the usefulness and popularity of this feature, it has been a staple in ''Halo'' [[first-person shooter]] titles ever since its first inclusion. After ''Halo 3'', it has appeared in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', ''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Halo: The Master Chief Collection]]'', ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', and ''[[Halo Infinite]]''.

==Description==
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 have a number of abilities while in-film; play, pause, fast-forward, take screenshot, rewind and record film clip, however the latter two are only available in multiplayer clips in ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo 3: ODST'', due to loading issues in campaign. Players can save up to one-hundred saved films in ''Halo 3''. Film clips are shorter, recorded sections of a film, only usable in ''Halo 3 ''and ''Halo: Reach'', not in ''Halo 3: ODST''. 

Theater is also featured in ''Halo: Reach'' and is improved as "Theater 2.0", with the ability to rewind films in campaign and [[Firefight]]. In ''Halo: Reach'', a player can save one thousand items of each file type, including clips, films, maps, and gametypes.

In ''Halo 4'', the feature has been limited to multiplayer only. It was stated that there was a possibility that theater would be added to Campaign and Spartan Ops in a future title update.<ref>[http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headlines/post/2012/11/01/The-Halo-Bulletin-11112-.aspx '''The Halo Bulletin:''' ''11.1.12'']</ref> However, due to technical issues with the game engine, there have been no current plans to add campaign and [[Spartan Ops]] support.<ref>[https://twitter.com/bsangel/status/294291861135306752 '''Twitter''' - ''Jessica Shea'']</ref>{{Ref/Note|Through modifications, it is possible to access Theater mode on campaign gameplay. However, as this requires tampering with the game itself, users will be banned automatically when caught.}} On [[2022|October 6, 2022]], in ''Halo 4''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s 10th Anniversary, it was confirmed that Theater would be added to Campaign and Spartan Ops as part of November's Update in ''The Master Chief Collection'', but this was delayed until the July 2023 update.

In ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', the feature is available for ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo 4''.<ref>[http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=116092208&postcount=1010 '''NeoGaf''': ''Frank O'Connor on Theater'']</ref> It is also available for ''Halo 2 Anniversary'' but is only limited to multiplayer.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/bulletins/the-halo-bulletin-assault-on-controller-settings '''The Halo Bulletin:''' ''Assault on the Controller Settings'']</ref>. With ''Halo: Reach'' being added to the ''Halo: The Master Chief Collection'', Theater also saves multiplayer and campaign plays for ''Halo: Reach''.

In both ''Halo 5: Guardians'' and ''Halo Infinite'', Theatre is limited to multiplayer.

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 record 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 <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.halowaypoint.com/ Halowaypoint.com]</span>. This is only relevant to ''Halo: Reach'' and ''Halo 4'', as ''Halo 3'' file support was terminated during the move to 343 Industries.

==Trivia==
*''[[Halo Wars]]'' has a feature of the same name, though it is just a library of the [[List of Halo Wars cinematic cutscenes|pre-rendered cutscenes]] throughout the campaign.
*Theater can be used to make certain [[Theater tricks|tricks]].
*If one pauses 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 one has the game paused, and then when one presses play, he will make gestures that originally sync with the speech, but without saying anything.
**This is also true for running the video 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 also occurs during gameplay sequences if a character is in mid-vocalization when pausing. This can easily been seen when pausing during an assassination involving Sangheili, as their mandibles will move while the rest of their body is still.
*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.
*The gametype "[[Slayer]]" is replaced with the name "[[Blam!]]" in Theater, even though it is the name of a regular gametype. The same goes for "Assault".
*In ''Halo 3'' and ''Halo: Reach'' if the player pauses just as an enemy or NPC has begun to speak, its mouth will continue to move and it will finish speaking, even though the video is paused.

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