Demo media and credits
The public tutorials use a dedicated public-docs-demo index. Its footage comes
from openly licensed films and historical newsreels, not a customer archive.
Source filenames include a title, year, and license cue so you can tell them apart
in Search, Working Sets, and Studio.
Modern live-action drama
Nina (2025) is a 5:22 short film written and directed by Brendan Kaplan, featuring a conversation between two people in a car. Its color, daylight footage provides a live-action alternative to the older animated examples. The creator is also identified on Brendan Kaplan’s film portfolio.
The creator’s Vimeo page displays License: Attribution; Vimeo’s license guide links that designation to CC BY 3.0. The uploaded copy is the complete creator-enabled HD download, with original audio, end credits, and 1440×1080 (4:3) framing. Do not stretch it to 16:9. The original score credits Jamie Estes.
Use this credit with tutorial excerpts and exported examples:
Nina (2025), written and directed by Brendan Kaplan. Original film, CC BY 3.0. Edited software demonstration; no endorsement implied.
Vimeo marks the film Mature. Public screenshots use ordinary dialogue and reaction shots, not explicit material. The film is openly licensed, not public domain. Keep the source attribution and identify your edits; the license does not replace any separate privacy, publicity, or third-party permissions needed for another use.
Bright color practice library
Use these English-language Ocean Today videos for the refreshed walkthroughs. They show ocean habitats, hands-on research, and restoration work in color. The original films are preserved, including their credits and embedded subtitles. They are educational and environmental features, not fictional drama or a live news feed.
| Video | Duration | Practice focus |
|---|---|---|
| Underwater Forests | 3:13 | Find kelp, fish, and habitat scenes; compare visual evidence with narration. |
| Dune Grass Planting | 2:19 | Follow a constructive volunteer story and preserve complete interview sentences. |
| Students at Sea | 2:29 | Build a hands-on science recap from research activity and interviews. |
| Wetlands Restoration | 2:13 | Connect restoration work with the wildlife and community shown in the source. |
| Restoring Coral Reefs | 2:17 | Review coral nurseries, divers, and the restoration process. |
NOAA Ocean Today credits and reuse
Publisher: NOAA Ocean Today / National Ocean Service, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution. Ocean Today’s published media policy states that site material is public domain except where noted and requests appropriate video, photo, and image credits. The source pages and end credits for these copies were reviewed; no restrictive copyright notice was identified. This is the publisher’s designation, not a claim that every credited contributor is a U.S. government employee.
Keep the following original contributor credits with examples:
- Underwater Forests: Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary; Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network.
- Dune Grass Planting: The National Aquarium.
- Students at Sea: Florida A&M University Environmental Sciences Institute; NOAA National Ocean Service; NOAA Educational Partnership Program; Florida Institute of Oceanography; National Science Foundation; Environmental Cooperative Science Center; Steve Chase, videographer.
- Wetlands Restoration: John Dutton, director of photography/editor; Will Shadley, narrator; NOAA and National Marine Fisheries Service; Huntington Beach Wetlands Conservancy.
- Restoring Coral Reefs: NOAA Restoration Center; NOAA National Ocean Service; The Nature Conservancy Coral Restoration Foundation; Frazier Nivens; NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Label an exported cut as an edited software demonstration, link its original source, and describe the changes. Do not imply that NOAA, its partners, or people shown endorse Composer. Do not repurpose agency logos or interviewee likenesses as advertising. Third-party rights and notices still take precedence where applicable.
Earlier demo sources
The following videos remain in the demo archive; they are not deleted when the walkthroughs switch to the brighter color library.
| Video | Type and language | Useful practice |
|---|---|---|
| Sintel (2010), 14:48 | Fantasy drama; English dialogue | Find a character’s goal, assemble a recap, and review dialogue cuts. |
| Elephants Dream (2006), 10:53 | Science-fiction drama; English dialogue | Compare spoken evidence with visual matches and curate a focused set. |
| Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle (2015), 12:10 | Fantasy drama; English dialogue | Practice source filtering and finding non-graphic dialogue scenes. |
| Lockheed Constellation Record (1944), 1:46 | Historical aviation news; English narration | Check a short factual answer against the original narration. |
| Vesuvius in Eruption (1944), 6:14 | Historical disaster news; English narration | Find evacuation or eruption coverage and build a source-scoped news recap. |
| Tears of Steel (2012), 12:14 | Science-fiction drama; English dialogue | Follow the existing robot-search and Celia examples. |
Times are rounded to match the library display. These are separate source videos, not six independent accounts of the same event. The two news stories come from the same United News issue, ARC 39006 / 208-UN-99.
Film credits
Sintel
© copyright Blender Foundation | www.sintel.org. Used under CC BY 3.0. The project’s sharing terms require the complete credits scroll when redistributing the full film. Credit excerpts and screenshots, link the license, and state any changes.
Elephants Dream
© copyright 2006, Blender Foundation / Netherlands Media Art Institute / www.elephantsdream.org. The original film is CC BY 2.5. Follow the project’s attribution instructions and keep the credits roll with the complete film. The separately downloadable soundtrack collection has different, more restrictive terms; it is not the source of the demo’s audio.
Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle
Blender Foundation | gooseberry.blender.org. The original project states CC BY 3.0, while the specific Wikimedia Commons copy used here is marked CC BY-SA 3.0. For this copy, follow the more restrictive share-alike designation: credit it, identify changes, and retain the same license for published adaptations of its footage. Use another source for a branded montage if you cannot meet those terms. This does not change the license of Composer or the rest of these docs.
Tears of Steel
Blender Foundation | mango.blender.org. The film is CC BY 3.0; retain its credits with the full film. The project’s portrait-rights notice distinguishes technical demos and tutorials from using actors in advertising. Our examples demonstrate editing; they do not imply an actor endorses Composer.
Historical-news credits
United News / U.S. Office of War Information; preserved by the National Archives and Records Administration, ARC 39006 (208-UN-99). NARA describes United News as not under copyright. The archive record and the specific copies of Lockheed Constellation Record and Vesuvius in Eruption carry a public-domain/CC0 designation.
Keep these source credits with exported examples even when attribution is not a copyright condition. Historical people, agencies, and organizations shown do not endorse this product.
What changed in the demo copies
The two OGV news files and the Cosmos WebM were converted to H.264/AAC MP4 for upload. Their full duration, original aspect ratio, and audio were retained; no branding, new dialogue, or editorial cuts were added to the upload copies. Sintel and Elephants Dream were downloaded as MP4 without editing.
Tutorial screenshots may add numbered callouts and redact the signed-in account. Those annotations explain real controls; they do not replace UI states or invent Search results. Any later generated edit must be identified as an edited demo, not the original film or an unmodified news report.
Before publishing your own output, keep the relevant credit, license link, and change notice with it. A reusable license is not a guarantee that every use is cleared: trademarks, portrait rights, and third-party material can have separate conditions.