How to make counter strike video

[shiven]

I think some of you may have seen the counter strike videeo "ruination" but if you havnt, heres the link :

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ruination

But anywayz, how did those guys make that video? Did they use a video camera or did they use a program on the computer... Can you tell me plz?

[Fighter-X]

Use fraps for recording and use vegas for compiling and special effects. Bittorrent for all your everyday needs! :cool:

[gwai lo]

The way we did it back with 1.5 was to record a demo in the game, then use some kind of program to capture the frames while replaying the video, and then compiling the frames into a movie file.

Recording during a demo replay is usually better because capturing frames while playing the game will result in dramatic fps drops as the processor, RAM, and hard drive are being utilized at a pretty high capacity.

edit: heyy...that is 1.5...wow i haven't seen that in a LOOOONNNGGG time

[crimsonhead]

Tutorial"

1 Record demo with HLTV

2 Use config to turn demo into series of pictures

3 Capture audio if necessary

4 Use program to join audio + pictures into video

5 Edit video

6 Add cool music

7 Compress

8 Add to CsFlicks

[shiven]

Thanks guys

[AimLXJ]

But do remember that using FRAPS to record can decrease your FPS

[crimsonhead]

But do remember that using FRAPS to record can decrease your FPS

Which is why you record a demo first and then use fraps on the demo. FRAPS is for newbs though :p

[MiG-]

well if u got dual core like me u can record any game @ 1024 x 768, with no slowdown.. :cool:

[Kerm]

Don't use fraps. Halflife (therefore Counter Strike) has a built in demo record function.

So record a demo whilst you're playing, '/record demoname'

then play back the demo '/play demoname' and have two keys binded to start record and stop record then capture the bits you want, stich the jpegs together in a video editing software and job done.

Just google for counter strike demo recording or something, as i've not done it in years and they might not be the exact commands, but you will get much better results with that than fraps.

(Y)

[H2OFlames]

I think some of you may have seen the counter strike videeo "ruination" but if you havnt, heres the link :

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ruination

But anywayz, how did those guys make that video? Did they use a video camera or did they use a program on the computer... Can you tell me plz?

ok ima tell-i just found out 5 min ago, but i dont know how to make it so i can watch it adn stuff when not on cs

step 1:ok go on and press the button to the left of 1

step 2:type "record (name) without the () and "

and by name i mean u make a name

step 3:it will say recording so u can close that thing and resume playing

step 4:im not sure how long it lasts but when ur done press the botton again(the one by the 1)

step 5:type "stop"

step 6:type "veiwdemo (whatever u put as the name)

step 7:close the things that r up and there will be a bar

and there u go :)

u can watch it there-if u find out how to make it so u can edit it and post it and every thing plz tell me

[shiven]

Tutorial"

1 Record demo with HLTV

2 Use config to turn demo into series of pictures

3 Capture audio if necessary

4 Use program to join audio + pictures into video

5 Edit video

6 Add cool music

7 Compress

8 Add to CsFlicks

Since someone else bumped this thread, what do you mean use HLTV. How do i get HLTV?

[crimsonhead]

HLTV is short for Half-Life TV, created by Valve Software in 2001, allows for broadcasting of matches on the Half-Life engine, it is mostly used for broadcasting Counter-Strike matches, the current world record stands at around 39500 spectators at the same time spectating the Cyberathlete Professional League finals in 2004. The matches can be viewed by using Counter-Strike, this greatly reduces bandwidth usage and therefore allows a lot of spectators with very little bandwidth available, although hosting a total of 40000 spectators does require near 1 gigabit of upstream, it is relatively low compared to a live videostream.

But you can use it to record demos of matches from every angle, every player and every view. It's in the dedicated server folder.

[richardsim7]

^^^ Half Life TV, it's a built in demo recorder in Half Life :)

-Rich-

[shiven]

Thx guys.

[shiven]

Ok guys i need some help. I found this link that tells me how to do it, it's just it's confusing. this is the part i don't understand :

"Step 2 (converting to BMP/JPG)

do this with a .cfg file

Make a .cfg file called movie.cfg in you counter-strike folder that has this in it.

bind "f3" "startmovie mov1 30"

bind "f4" "startmovie mov2 30"

bind "f5" "startmovie mov3 30"

bind "f6" "startmovie mov4 30"

bind "f7" "startmovie mov5 30"

bind "f8" "startmovie mov6 30"

bind "f12" "endmovie"

also you make a copy of your config.cfg and rename it to myconfig.cfg in your counter-strike folder.

Then start your counter-strike demo by going into the console of counter-strike and typing ?playdemo XXXX? where XXXX is the filename or name of the demo your recorded. While in the console remember to exec your movie.cfg to do this type ?exec movie.cfg? in console.

"

can you guys tell me exactly what to do in the easiest possible way??

[crimsonhead]

Make a txt file with "bind "f3" ... "endmovie" in it and rename it to movie.cfg. Start cs and open the console and type exec movie.cfg. Open the demo u recorded with playdemo "demoname" and when you get to a part you want to record hit f3. Then when you want to stop hit f12. Then to record a new one hit f4 and then f12 to stop and so on up to f8.

[shiven]

Make a txt file with "bind "f3" ... "endmovie" in it and rename it to movie.cfg. Start cs and open the console and type exec movie.cfg. Open the demo u recorded with playdemo "demoname" and when you get to a part you want to record hit f3. Then when you want to stop hit f12. Then to record a new one hit f4 and then f12 to stop and so on up to f8.

Yeah see that's the part i don't get.. How do i make a config file?

[crimsonhead]

Yeah see that's the part i don't get.. How do i make a config file?

Unzip this to the cstrike directory.

movie.zip

[shiven]

Unzip this to the cstrike directory.

how'd you make that?? or where did ou get it.. and if you did make it.. HOW!

O yeah thx..

[Guest]

You create a text file, then change the filename and extension to what you desire it to be, and the extension being ".cfg".

[shiven]

You create a text file, then change the filename and extension to what you desire it to be, and the extension being ".cfg".

Oh! Ok. Thx man!

[shiven]

O NO'S! I just followed this method of that i posted before. Convert the video inot .BMP's at 30fps. AND IT"S TAKING UP 80 GB!!! What do i do. Acording to my intructions, ineed to convert all the .Bmp to jpegs, but i don't have enough space for that.. PLEASE HELP!

[crimsonhead]

Thats what bmpscanner's for. It converts the bmps to jpgs on-the-fly and deletes the bmps afterwards. :)

[shiven]

Thats what bmpscanner's for. It converts the bmps to jpgs on-the-fly and deletes the bmps afterwards. :)

On BMP scanner, at the top there is a location, but when i input my cs folder, it says that there is an error with one of the dll's and that it cannot proceede.

EDIT : wait.. do i have to be recording it and using BMP scanner at the same time?? when i did it, i finish the recording, then started BMP scanner. Also, how much of a HDD diff will we see between jpeg and BMP?.. BTw ty crimsonhead

[crimsonhead]

Put ijl15.dll in your system folder, ie: windows\system

Put bmpscanner.exe in any folder you wish. (Example: C:\bmpscanner)

Run bmpscanner.exe.

NOTE: If you cant get the program to run, you might need "Visual Basic 5.0 Runtimes".

They can be found at www.microsoft.com and many other places.

Direct link to one mirror: http://www.completelyfreesoftware.com/tk.cgi?vb5

You're supposed to run it while ur recording, then it scans the directory every x seconds and when it sees new bmps, it converts them on the fly to jpg, then deletes the huge bmp files. It makes a HUGE difference in HD space.