Cutting Room is a plugin for Unity developed by Digital Creativity Labs at the University of York which allows creators to build and deploy Object Based Media productions.
- Ensure that you have Git LFS installed.
- Clone the repository:
https://github.com/Digital-Creativity-Labs/CuttingRoom.git
- Open the cloned project with Unity (2020.3.23f1 or above).
- Open the first sample tutorial:
Assets/Samples/UnityVideo/1AtomicNarrativeObject/AtomicNarrativeObject.unity
to learn the basics. - Complete the remaining tutorials:
Assets/Samples/UnityVideo
- Build your own productions and share them with us via one of our communities.
API documentation can be found:
- Within the
Docs
directory of the repository. - On Google Drive.
Samples are available within the Samples directory of the repository. These include samples using the Unity VideoPlayer component and also samples using the AVProVideo plugin (not included).
The sample Unity scenes provide an interactive demo on how to set up a Cutting Room production and also explain the functionality available within the tool.
We love seeing pull requests with new features or bug fixes so please feel free to create these if you have something to share with us. Once received, we will examine each one and if satisfied, merge them into the main repository with our thanks.
You can join us and other Cutting Room creators in the following communities:
- Join and discuss Cutting Room and Object Based Media on Slack.
- Create and read threads about Cutting Room on Reddit.
- Follow and tweet us @CuttingRoomOBM on Twitter.
We are always on the look out for new partners to work with to develop innovative and novel products using Cutting Room. If you would like to speak to us about a potential collaboration please reach out to us at CuttingRoom-toolkit@york.ac.uk.
If you encounter an issue or just need clarification on existing functionality, please make us aware of this by submitting an issue through Github and we will do our best to provide assistance.
This tool was developed by Digital Creativity Labs at the University of York.
Code and documentation copyright 2015-2022 Digital Creativity Labs and University of York.
Code is released under the Apache 2.0 Licence.