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Gameplay

To populate the ''Yoostar'' clip library, in-house artists digitally erase actors or other key figures in a licensed film or television clip. The company has patented this technique. Users film themselves saying either the original lines from the clip using the software's teleprompter, or ad-libbing their own versions. A chalk outline is overlaid on the scene to help position the user in scale with the other actors. Users are allowed as many takes as needed to get a satisfactory result. The software then composites the user's filmed content with the original clip in the same fashion Hollywood actors are filmed against

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s on set and inserted into digitally created backgrounds. The final product is then labeled and stored on the user's local machine, with the option to upload it to Yoostar's website. The site provides the ability to embed content in any

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''Yoostar 2''

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released in North America on March 8, 2011. In the fall of 2011, Yoostar cooperated with MTV to allow users to star in scenes from MTV's TV shows and music videos. ''Yoostar on MTV'' for

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References

External links

* {{official website, https://web.archive.org/web/20090819103151/http://www.yoostar.com:80/ Entertainment software Film and video technology 2011 video games PlayStation 3 games Video game franchises Xbox 360 games PlayStation Move-compatible games Kinect games MacOS games Video games developed in the United Kingdom Windows games