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Public Forum => MDK's Board of useless crap!!!! => Topic started by: MDK22 on January 17, 2008, 11:28:48 AM
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If you would like to make a css or tf2 video you are going to need a very good computer. You will need at least a dual core processor and a video card that gets around 100 frames. The other thing is you are going to need a large amount of storage space. We are talking about 15-20 gigs for a 15 min video.
Programs You will need:
Fraps: (http://www.fraps.com/setup.exe) http://www.fraps.com/ (http://www.fraps.com/)
VirtualDub: (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/virtualdub/VirtualDub-1.7.7.zip?download) http://www.virtualdub.org/ (http://www.virtualdub.org/)
Xvid Codec: (http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.1.3.zip) http://www.xvid.org/ (http://www.xvid.org/)
Click Name to download.
All of these are free. Note: Fraps will only record 30fps and a limited record time unless you buy it $37.
Step One: Recording the demo
The first thing you will need to do is make sure your console is enabled for css/tf2. This is done by going to:
Options > Keyboard > Advanced > Enable console
Once you enable your console hit ~. This will bring it up you then type:
record Demo_Name
Close the console by hitting the x and start to play.
Once you are done recording hit ~. Then type in:
stop
Step Two: Setting up Fraps
Start Fraps. double click on it by the windows clock to bring it up. Once you have it up you will want to go to the FPS tab and disable the corner overlay unless you want to see the fps in your video. Then go the Movies tab and set your capture key this is what you will use to start and stop your recording.
Step Three: Playing back the demo
Start css/tf2. Then open up your console and type in:
demoui
Hit Load
Select your demo and hit ok
Your computer will lag when you hit load its ok.
As soon as it loads hit pause.
Hit Fraps Video capture Key
Hit resume then the x.
Once the demo finishes Hit Fraps Video capture Key again
Step Four: Compressing the video
Start Virtual Dub.
File > Open video file
Browse to the fraps folder under C:\Program Files\Fraps and open your avi
Video > Compression
Scroll down to Xvid > Select It > Hit Configure
Set Profile @ level to HighDef
Set encoding type to Single Pass
Click target quantizer
Slide the bar to 9708
Click calc button
Set target size to 716800
Set frames per second to 59.94
Under audio set format to MP3-CBR
Set Avg bitrate to 192kbps
Hit ok till you get back to just virtualdub
Then hit save as avi name it and hit save and let it do its work.
Cals forum post on making videos.
http://forums.caleague.com/showthread.php?t=7776&highlight=fraps (http://forums.caleague.com/showthread.php?t=7776&highlight=fraps)