hey how do i record videso in et? i knwo ucan press 12 or 11 for a screen, but where do the vids save… sum1 sent me the fodler root but i dont see my vid or screen files… do i have to prass sumthin to stop teh vid recording after i press f12?
or is there a better program i can use outside of et
I just looked into this yesterday as it happens.
First, you must record a demo, press f12 to start and to stop your record type /stoprecord in the console. There are scripts out there to do it for you if you search.
You can replay a demo by clicking on, surprise surprise, the Replays button at the main menu. P.S. You must use the mod you recorded the demo in to watch it back.
However, if you want to record the video to something outside of ET, you’re going to have to hold down F1-5 when the demo is running, or type /cl_avidemo 25 into the console.
Then you can put those pictures together into an avi using quake movie maker, or similar.
Check this link for more info. http://www.splashdamage.com/index.php?name=pnPHPbb2&file=viewtopic&t=5578&highlight=clavidemo
There are two methods.
But be aware:
You will need much diskspace for the screenshots.
For example:
640 * 480 * 25 * 3 = 22 MB per second
If you have a pc powerful enough you can do it in real time to avi with a program called fraps. That’s the easiest way to do it.
http://www.fraps.com/
If you’re serious about wanting to make a good movie, don’t use fraps. Q3 engine based games have the best avidemo’ing features ever and can produce excellent results. Fraps just washes the colours out and blurs the detail… just makes it look crap. You also get jerky playback and lose the framerate. Someone a while ago contacted me and asked for a basic guide in making movies and below is what i sent him. It’s based on using Vegas and XviD. As i said it’s really basic, but it’ll give you a good basis to start with.
Capturing screenshots from a demo: In your autoexec or in console, set a bind for capturing the screenshots. This is bind x “cl_avidemo 30”, change x to any key you want, but it has to be an F-key (f1-12) or a key on the numberpad. Set another to stop capturing screenshots, this is bind x “cl_avidemo 0”. Play your demo, and when you get to the part you want in your movie, press the key for cl_avidemo 30. The demo will go all jerky and slow down. This is the game capturing at 30 frames per second. When you reach the part where you want to stop the clip, press the cl_avidemo 0 key. The screenshots will be place din your screenshots folder. Make sure you have alot of HDD space as each screenshot is quite large.
Converting the screenshots to avi: Go to http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/benrg/huffyuv.html and download the huffyuv lossless codec, follow the instructions on the website and install it. Go to http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/ and download Virtual Dub. Load it up and click on file> open video file. Browse to where your screenshots are kept, click on the 1st one and hit open. You’ll see a preview of your clip now frame by frame. On the top tabs click on Video> Compression… Select Huffyyv from the list then click ok. Next click on file> Save as avi…, select where you want to save it to and name it what you want then click save. It will now render the clip. The clip will now be large because it isn’t compressed yet.
Editing the rendered clips: Go to http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/download/step2.asp?DID=501 and download the trial version of Vegas video. Load it up and drag and drop your clips into the app. Any music you want to use, drag and drop it in there too. Add special effects, text and any other stuff you want. Play around with it to get used to it. There are alot of websites with tutorials on how to use it.
4) Doing your final render: Go to http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Koepi_XviD.htm and download the XviD codec. If you have any other versions of XviD, you MUST uninstall them 1st. You can do this from add/remove prograns. Now in vegas click file> render as…, click on custom then at the bottom click on the audio tab. In the audio format drop down box select MPEG-layer 3 and in Attributes select 32kbs, 32,000hz stream. Now at the bottom click on the Video tab. Click on the video format dropdown box and select XviD at the bottom. Below i’ve done a guide on getting the best quality from your video, so read that for the doing the final render
Getting Good Quality In Your Movie
FRAPS: This is a good program for what it does, but if you can avoid using it then do so. It captures at a low resolution and framerate is unstable and can cause stuttering. I suggest using the ingame avi capturing option as you can capture at high resolution and you’re guaranteed a stable frame rate. If however you have to use fraps cos you can’t quite get your head around avidemo’ing, then try and capture at the highest resolution possible. By this i mean as high a resolution that is still stable to work with, not as high as FRAPS can capture. The more detail included, the better the overall picture will be. A high res will not effect the overall size of your final video.
FRAMERATE: A good framerate to capture at for standard playback speed is 30fps. Anything lower can cause the video to look jerky. Yes TV’s are 24fps, but they have interlacing to make each frame blend better. Since games have higher detail and more motion on screen, it’s better to capture at a higher rate. If you want to do slow motion sections, then up the framerate you capture, DO NOT capture at 30fps and then use your editor to slow the clip down, this will cause your clip to be really jerky when played back. For half speed, capture at 60fps then render at 30. The easiest way is to use increments of 30fps, that way if you have to have one section of the same clip at normal speed, it’s easy to figure out how much % you have to increase the clips velocity at e.g. a clip capped at 60fps will need 200% increase to get normal playback speed. I know some editors that capture every clip at 100fps just give them the option if they need it.
RESOLUTION: The higher the resolution the better, you want your video to look nice, so as much detail included the better. It’s very easy to resize your final render to 640x480 etc in yout editor, so capturing at a high res will not effect overall file size. I capture all my frames at 1024x768 which is good enough, if you can or want to go higher, then by all means do. This can be handy for a few reasons… the overall detail is increased and maintaned after resizing, and if you want to use your editor to zoom in on a section of the clip, it will do so easily without becoming pixelated.
QUALITY: Again the higher the better… don’t hold back here. Bump everything up to the highest detail, enable anti aliasing and anistropic filtering. Don’t use your nomal gameplay config, it’s just ugly to watch in movies. Set your r_gamma to default, if you need to brighten the game up a bit then use r_intensity. Gamma washes the map with brightness and you can lose alot of detail. Don’t worry about your framerate with everything up high as this doesn’t effect avi capturing. Regardless of your framerate at the time, you will be guranteed to render every frame you set cl_avidemo to capture at. Also in your editor, disable any interlacing or resampling, this can cause scan lines and reduce the quality even at a high bitrate.
PICTURE ENHANCEMENT: What you do with your footage before creating your final render can make alot of difference too. Most video editing apps contain filters to enhance the video. The ones i can suggest using are increasing the saturation, brightness and contrast and upping the sharpness. Nothing major, just slight adjustments to up the quality and bring out the detail and colour better.
FINAL RENDER: You will always get better quality from a 2-pass encode. The less times you render a clip before the final encode the better, you loose some detail each time you render.Always keep the original resolution when editing your vid until it comes to the final render. When you come to your final render, set your output resolution to 640x480. Below is a link to the process settings i use for XviD, you can use any codec you want, but i prefer to use xvid as it provides the best quality for the filesize. The fact it is more user configurable makes this possible… most other codecs just allow you to change bitrate. You can load the process file in Virtual Dub. Do your 1st pass with 2-pass 1st pass, then go back again and do your 2nd pass with 2pass - 2nd pass (overwrite the 1st pass with it). These settings should give you the standard 20mb per min compression and the quality will still be top notch.
http://darkangel.diesa.co.uk/iT2-XviD-settings.zip (these are settings jrb used in Tricking iT2)
That’s all the basics. If you have any questions, go to http://www.shaolinproductions.org and post on the forums. Or hop on IRC and join #shaolinproductions on Quakenet.