CounterStrike Source demo to video
I was playing around with converting recorded CS:S demos to videos and came across the GameCam tool, in combination with the Windows Movie Maker application. Both are reasonably decent, movie maker is a bit buggy, so save regularly. Another GameCam equivalent tool is Fraps. Both have freeware/demo versions that cut down on the functionality, but do work.
One issue I encountered with CS:S demos is that when a map is changed, the demo continues recording with a _X appended to the filename, where X is a increasing number for each map change. These demos won’t play correctly by default. The solution is to run the demoui cmd from the console and use that interface to load the demo. Once the demo is loaded, enter 50 into the frame box and press goto. This will jump to the start of the demo and start playing it correctly.
An example I uploaded to Youtube is below, music courtesy my eccentric eclectic flatmate.
Update: Dec 4th, 2006.
I finished creating the video I was hoping to create. That is, a mockery of my CounterStrike playing peers. The YouTube version below is quite poor quality unfortunately. A full quality 720×576 version is available though. BotSlaughter-720×576 (95MB).
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Hey, just on buggyness of windows movie maker. I find if you do things microsofts way things are much smoother. I was doing some stuff on it and had it crashing every few min, I discovered that the problem was that I was using MP3 files (the nerve of me ;) ) When I converted the mp3 files to wma before importing them to windows movie maker things went much better, not perfect though. So thinking this was Microsofts MO I took the precaution of converting the AVI files I was working with to WMV using windows media encoder (free download from microsofts windows media site). The program just works better with microsofts formats. I’m not saying this is a good thing, but it’s still cheaper than Premier ;)
Cool, cheers for the tip. I found it reliable enough once I saved after almost every edit, it didn’t seem to crash so much then. Some decent video tutorials on youtube as well that show a bit more on how to use it.
I record footage by using console and typing eg. “record myownage” and then i go into the steam folders and its there but its in a weird halflife format is there anyway to play the video outside the game?
Hey Koolman,
The program I used, called GameCam, runs as you play the game. You can press a button, F9 or whatever when playing and it will start recording to an AVI file. The problem is that recording AVI at the same time as playing is fairly bad on the framerate. The trick is to record your play as a demo and then to load GameCam, go back into the game and play the demo. Now you can start GameCam recording as the demo is playing and it will get converted to an AVI.
Google for GameCam and you will come across the website and probably some tutorials. Another tool you can use, that’s the same as GameCam is Fraps.
Gav
DUDE YOUR AIM IS SO GOOD!!! HOW DO U DO IT??, IV BEEN PLAYING FOR 1 MONTH AND I STILL GET A kill:death ration of 4:7
Looks like hax to me, Flippy. This guy has selectively edited footage of him killing various players to make them look bad. I bet that guy CampBot would annihilate him with a p90 lolz.
Dude, 5:04 left in the video and I’m looking at shit in a toilet bowl. What?
Why do you hack? It shows your radar hack when you got flashed in de_dust2.. its purple and black when you got flashed banged… WOW WHAT A HACKER EVERYONE WATCH IT LOL IT”S RIGHT THERE!!!!!!
Looks like lots of hax to me. It seems you know if someone is coming, and can go to a spot to kill them, without seeing them (Wall Hax)