recam

present singular third person recams · participle present recamming · participle past recammed · past recammed

1. transitivevideo gamesTo recreate (a recording of gameplay in a three-dimensional playfield) with different camera positioning and movement from the original camera that followed the player's viewpoint.

   For Marino (2004), the development of recamming tools and the subsequent dissociation of camera and POV in postproduction, marks the 'defining moment' for Machinima.

   2008, James Newman, Playing with Videogames, page 146

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   Having “wondered if maybe we could alter the camera position in our demos to make them more movie-like to watch”, Bailey used Remaic to create a new recammed version of the speedrun.

   2007, Andy Clarke, Grethe Mitchell, Videogames and Art, page 71

   Replays captured as demo movies have been circulated as skills demonstrations, as recordings of significant competitive events (i.e., Thresh's defeat of Billox at Quakedelica in 1998, circulated as a recammed highlight reel) […]

   2011, Henry Lowood, Michael Nitsche, The Machinima Reader, page 7

plural recams

1. video gamesA recreated gameplay recording of this kind.