How to I make video clips out of replays?

(Cerebrate) #1

I know you can somehow make video clips out of ET replays, but I don’t know how. When watching replays, F1-F5 is ‘avi recording’ or something similiar to that, but I cannot see any output and the framerate drops to 10 or 15. Please help me out.

(The_Jesus_Zeppelin) #2

there is a program out there called fraps that records your play into avi. but its not very good. because after about 20 secs of gameplay while recording in high def. itsa like a couple hundred megs. as to et’s recording is like mayeb a meg. but i dont know of any freeware that recognizes et’s replay file.

(sniser) #3

While the demo is playing, enter “/avidemo XX” in the console (XX is the number of frames per second - IIRC you can stop it with “/avidemo 0” - I suggest binding both commands to a key.)

This will create lots of .tga files in your /screenshots folder. Targa files are big, kinda like .bmp, so make sure you have enough free space. Record a short sequence to get a feel for it. To convert the image sequence into an .avi I highly recommend http://www.virtualdub.org/

(Sick Boy) #4

The output are screenshots in your \etmain\screenshots folder. You need to make them into a movie with a video-editing program like adobe premiere or simple tools like bmp2avi. You then get an uncompressed avi which is very big, you’ll need to compress it with divx or another codec(you can do this in your video-editing program).

(sniser) #5

You can do that in one step in virtualdub :smiley:

(DG) #6

maybe try
http://www.shaolinproductions.org/

quite well known for tutorials etc, and making top quality movies like the 4K movie.

on subject of movies, might be interested in this 157mb docu:
Modern Day Gamer 2
http://www.esreality.com/?a=post&id=551158 OR
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/22/2157241&mode=thread&tid=127&tid=186

might email pcgamer and ask them to put them on the disks, bit big for me iisdn

(Cerebrate) #7

Thanks guys. I’ll give it a try.

I just noticed the poor grammer in the subject line. :banghead: :smiley:

(Majin) #8

note: no sound is recorded, if you want sound you have to use a seperate program.

My favorite free sound capturing/editing program is Audacity. You can get it at download.com.