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Debriefing => Questions, Help, & How To's => Topic started by: bubbayoshi117 on December 15, 2010, 09:15:16 pm

Title: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: bubbayoshi117 on December 15, 2010, 09:15:16 pm

Okay, so I open the console, I type in record demo1.
I play the round, I re-open the console, I type in stop.
I go back to the main menu, and type host_framerate 30, then playdemo demo1 avi. I then type startmovie test1 avi, but it pretty much freezes up. I found the frames from the demo, in targa format, but in all it was 47GB of images. How do I get the startmovie to work, and cut down the size of the images? I'm looking for a youtube-size video.
Oh, and I tried compiling all the images into one sequence on after effects, the end result was 5GB, even rendered at 1/3 resolution.

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: Mangley on December 15, 2010, 10:13:37 pm

Use an external recording program such as Fraps whilst playing back your demos. It's quicker, simpler, and requires less memory.

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: bubbayoshi117 on December 15, 2010, 10:31:17 pm

i haven't heard many good things about fraps, but i'll give it a try

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: bubbayoshi117 on December 15, 2010, 11:47:11 pm

okay so i got fraps, but its still pretty big files. anybody know the best settings to compress in after effects? or another video compression program? youtube limit is 2gb, currently have 6gb of video

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: Bashe on December 16, 2010, 12:01:13 am

I use Virtualdub to compress video. It's a fairly simple program that should get the job done. You'll need some compression codecs though, and for that I use ffdshow.

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: bubbayoshi117 on December 16, 2010, 01:20:42 am

so surprise of all surprises, windows live movie maker works... i tried virtualdub, but it kept tripling my filesize. thanks for the suggestions though

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: killermonkey on December 16, 2010, 02:21:25 am

windows movie maker is the bomb. I find it does a better job at finalizing movies than any other program (of course you have to use WMV though).

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: bubbayoshi117 on December 16, 2010, 02:30:09 am

so far so good, 4 videos uploaded, 5th one in the process, one more match to split and upload.

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: Enzo.Matrix on December 16, 2010, 05:33:46 am

FRAPS is the best, but if you can just make it record to a second harddrive so it doesn't cause as much lag.  I actually have 2 120GB SSD in a raid 0 for my FRAPSing and "scratch disks"

Title: Re: Recording gameplay movie?
Post by: Bashe on December 16, 2010, 05:55:57 am

Quote from: bubbayoshi117 on December 16, 2010, 01:20:42 am

i tried virtualdub, but it kept tripling my filesize. thanks for the suggestions though

Then you didn't actually compress the video. Seems you've found a solution regardless.