These days, launching a successful PC game means far more than just throwing it onto Steam and hoping for the best. As Minecraft, Team Fortress 2, and countless other games have shown, if you give players the freedom and the tools to create something of their own within a game, the title will most likely have a much longer shelf-life and a far more engaged community. The huge modding community of the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, while not officially supported by publisher Rockstar, has certainly had a hand in keeping the aging game alive.

With the upcoming PC version of GTA V, budding machinima directors and fans of horse-related mischief might not have to resort to tinkering with patches and configuration files in order to land the next viral hit on YouTube. In a new video (embedded below), Rockstar has outlined some of the features of Rockstar Editor, a new suite of video editing tools exclusive to the PC version of the game. In addition to the game automatically recording the last few moments of gameplay—useful for capturing an impromptu stunt or explosion—players will also be able to manually start and stop recording.

Once a clip is captured, players can head into an editor to trim and splice together clips in an interface that appears not too dissimilar to traditional editing tools like Final Cut and Adobe Premier. Text can be added, as can a custom soundtrack based on the songs from GTA V’s in-game radio stations. Players can also change the camera angle of a recorded clip, opening up all sorts of possibilities for cinematic-style shots. A variety of visual filters round out the options.

For those wanting to get a little more creative, GTA V will also feature a director mode, which lets players set up a scene from scratch. There will be a variety of characters (human or otherwise), locations, weather effects, and times of day to choose from, as well as gameplay modifications like explosive punches and low gravity (expect to see many a video on YouTube make use of that one). Direct uploads to YouTube and Rockstar Games Social Club will be supported.

The Rockstar Editor joins 60fps, 4K, and a city density slider on the list of PC-exclusive features. Fortunately, aftermany delays, there’s not much longer to wait: just make sure your PC can match Rockstar’s system requirements before plunking down your cash for a copy at tomorrow's launch.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/grand-theft-auto-v-pc-ships-with-built-in-mods-and-powerful-machinima-tools/


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have you reported on this finding yet?.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/15/popular-modder-rockstar-did-everything-to-prevent-modding-of-gta-v/

Sighh, hate when companies do stuff like that. Now the hackers/modders have to find the encryption key in order to mod it which will take sometime T_T. I guess the waifu GTA V character mods will have to wait

Here are a few more things about that sitution though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15tAyRACUII

Yeah, when a modder comes across something like this you know something is up.

I just hope that Rockstar see this error and try correcting it, modding GTA IV is what kept that game alive and strong, more so than on last gen systems which I doubt would be playing IV as much as those that play it on PC thanks to the constant supply of mods.

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/GTA-5-PC-Get-iCEnhancer-Mod-69241.html

I am hoping that the creator behind ICEnhancer takes a crack at GTA V, I could only imagine the visuals with his mod taking center stage like he did for GTA IV, though this article is 3 months old and I believe he recently said he isn't working on it yet but might so, the recent news we're seeing here might deter him from that and I really think R* should do something about this as soon as possible.

GTA V without mods would be a pretty bad thing for PC gamers.

Nahh they won't or else it would go against their "best interest" since there are some optional micro-transactions online for stuff and if people can just mod GTA V, then the microtransactions will be useless cause the money basiacally just gets u skins and stuff.

But as for that modder, supposetly he is a cranky modder that doesn't like Rockstar so he is negative about it but if you watch the video I linked, there are other modders in the GTA community that are a lot more positive about the potentical modding in GTA V. Of course, stuff like this is always makes things hard but I doubt it won't be unlocked eventually one way or another

If they build walls then modders simply build ladders to climb above said walls =P, they can't really full on stop modding and like you said it would go against their best interests, the last thing they'd want to do is piss off the PC community they delayed nearly 2 years for.