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By Jayly · Posted: 2024/12/04

Minecraft Cinematic Editor Extension

Important

This article is about the Minecraft Editor extension that is currently exclusive to the Windows version of Bedrock Edition Preview. For the Cinematic add-on with cross-platform support, see Cinematic Runtime.

Download links for the add-on is located at the bottom of the page.

The Cinematic Editor is a Minecraft editor extension that utilizing the /camera command for changing perspectives and designing cinematic scenes. The editor has the capability to control your camera perspective with Minecraft Bedrock Editor to allow players to make a Minecraft scene, without knowledge to use the /camera command.

Cinematic Editor v1.4 Thumbnail

Deferred Lighting Pack used: Poggy's Luminous Dreams

The Cinematic Editor Extension allows you to control your camera perspective without the use of commands. Which uses Minecraft: Bedrock Editor and the /camera command to allow players to make a Minecraft scene.

Similarities between ReplayMod

This cinematic editor has a similar concept to ReplayMod from Minecraft: Java Edition.

Major Differences

However, a major difference between this extension and ReplayMod is that the scene are played in real time since you cannot rewind Minecraft's gameplay footage within the game.

Creating a Scene

Create a scene with extension

To create a scene with the editor extension, first click on the camera icon on the left. The cinematic editor panel will pop up on the right, scroll down to the Stored Keyframes section. This is where you will create a keyframe and a scene.

The 'Create Keyframe' button will immediately saves the player's current coordinates and rotation into the extension, which can be viewed within the top part of the extension:

scene data display

When the button is clicked, the keyframes dropdown will have an item with the location the keyframe is captured in. Doing this multiple times allows you to create a scene. The keyframes order are shown in the dropdown:

keyframes dropdown

When the 'Play Scene' button is clicked, the editor extension controls your camera and gets all the keyframes saved to generate a path for the camera to transit from one location to another.

keyframes dropdown

Note

The extension will only take control of the camera to run a scene given by there are data in the stored keyframes dropdown.

Camera Transition (Easing)

easing

The 'Ease Type' button adjust the ease of a keyframe, different ease type allows the camera can move from one place to another with different motion. Which different ease types allows us to make the transition more natural in some scenes.

The following easing types are supported in the cinematic editor extension:

easing list

Tip

The image above is taken from Easing Functions Cheat Sheet (easings.net). Check out the website to learn more about different methods of easing.

easing selection

The 'Ease Time' adjust the time duration from one key frame to another.

These two options are automatically saved to world, so data will not be deleted when leaving and joining the world.

And finally, the Export Keyframes button will transfer the data from Cinematic Editor extension to Cinematic Runtime, meaning you can play a scene outside of editor mode.

Modifying Existing Keyframes

If you want to change the keyframe's ease, you can select a keyframe from the Keyframes dropdown. The panel will show easing details for the selected keyframe.

You can modify the ease type and the ease time for the keyframe. However you cannot modify it's position and rotation. You would have to delete the keyframe using the 'Delete Keyframe' button, then create a keyframe again.

Scene Action

scene action

The Scene Action section in the extension panel allows creators to either play the scene, export the scene to Cinematic Runtime Add-On, or reset the scene.

Play Scene

This will play the scene which is stored in the Cinematic Editor Extension Add-On. To play a scene stored in Cinematic Runtime Add-On, use the Scene Player item.

Export Scene

Pressing this button will transfer the scene details from Cinematic Editor Extension to Cinematic Runtime Add-On. This means you can play the scene with the Scene Player item available from Cinematic Runtime Add-On without the Minecraft Editor or the extension.

Important

Exporting Scene from extension to the runtime add-on requires both behavior packs activated in the Editor project.

loaded packs

Reset Scene

This action will reset all data of the camera scene from the Editor extension, and it cannot be undone once the scene is removed. This does not affect the scene in Cinematic Runtime Add-On.

Hud Elements Visibility

The toggles controls the HUD visibility when playing a scene using the extension. There are multiple toggles under the action buttons which indicates the HUD elements to display when playing a scene.

Changelog

Changelog for Cinematic Editor Extension.

1.4.1

1.4.0

1.3.2

1.3.1

1.3.0

1.2.0

1.1.1

1.0.5

1.0.4

1.0.3

1.0.2

1.0.1

1.0.0

0.3.0-beta

0.2.0-beta

0.1.0-beta

Installation

This video has infomations of installing this editor extension, and behind the scenes of development of the cinematic editor.

Important

  • Cinematic Editor Extension requires Bedrock Editor mode to be enabled, which the engine is only available to Windows 10/11 players. Check out this article to get access to the Editor.

  • You are allowed to repost this add-on to other websites or make a YouTube video for commercial purposes, provided that you must put the link this post https://jaylydev.github.io/posts/cinematic-editor/ in the description of the video or a webpage and must not have any other direct-download links.

Downloads

Click the link below and choose a version to download.