capturing video

[far3]

Hi I have seen quite a few movies around and world like to know If there is any other good software besides Fraps. thx in advance
:cheers:

 

[Bicka]

fraps really does seem to be the best program to do the job at the moment tbh.

Other alternatives are using the ingame console command : startmovie (i think thats it) or using video out on the graphics card to record to a video recorder (or computer...whatever else) and then recording it back via video in.

 

[Chris D]

This is some instruction I got from Yahn Bernier at Valve:

If you want to record a fixed framerate playback movie with a properly synced .wav track, we generally do this (from the console -- we don't currently have a UI for doing moviemaking)):

host_framerate 30 (forces fixed framerate for playback)
playdemo xxx (starts the demo playback)
startmovie css (starts dumping demo frames to file and writing the .wav)

You do have to have a .dem file, obviously. Not sure whether there are any existing issues with .dem files in the CS:S beta, but if so, please let us know. They should work (or they did last time I checked).

Additionally, there is a demo playback UI available by pressing Shift-F1 when in the game, it's currently used internally only at this point so no promises that it doesn't have any bugs.

Yahn