homemade hl2 vids? how?

[Snowknight26]

Very nice tut jacen! I'm making my own HL2DM video, so be sure to stay tuned. Without your posts, I couldn't have done it. Thanks once agian!

 

[Goo3y]

I made a movie and i set the FPS to 9.980 but now the video is slower than the audio. Also i converted my temp.wav to 128kps mp3. How to i attach this to the movie as it will only let me attach wav's. Because i wanna make it as small as possible. Thanks

 

[Goo3y]

Sorry for the double post. I didnt read it did i. Thanks for the mp3 info. I still cant get audio and video smooth. I set 9.980 and the one below which syncs them automatically but its jst a fraction out. any halp?

 

[MarshieMellows]

You're going to need a pretty beefy computer to get good results from Fraps, besides you have to pay like 30 bucks and not everyone is really willing to do that. And the demo version is buggy and has has the words FRAPS in big letters right in the middle of the screen.

 

[Shimoneous]

so theres no real easy way to just encode dem files to mpeg's or avi's then??

or did i miss something?

catch

 

[paulvinten]

Use Fraps

lol.

The method outlined above,with the demos etc is a hell of a lot better.

 

[paulvinten]

as mentioned earlyer in this post, fraps is not good for making high quality or perfect fluent videos of halflife2.

specially when you are trying to do a lot of physics stuff. I remember there was one guy who swung a huge mace into 75 zombies to see how they bounce, and got like 3 fps in the finished movie.

 

[Gorgon]

Use Fraps

Fraps 2.5

 

[Spiffe]

fraps works fine. but thanks dude for this other info. I did'nt know u could convert into mpegs without any other stuff/progs involved. cool =)

 

[boystupid]

Hi, I have just tried making a vid and i can hear the sound but i can't see the vid. Do i need a codec or something?

 

[Funky Munky]

Download Fraps.

 

[rpgprog]

this is good. I am going to make a garrys mod vid. This will help alot

 

[NewbyNewb]

anyone know a capture card that has a DVI in and captures at 1920X1440 and up or around. I want to capture in realtime, not just for HL2, for other games aswell, using 2 computers.

 

[WySiWyG]

Is it possible to plug a dv camera in the gfx card and record to tape, then edit that? Can I plug it into the tv out? What wire will I need?

Im gonna try the first suggestion later, but this way, if possible, would be a lot more straight forward for me.

 

[Fireindaho]

Is it possible to plug a dv camera in the gfx card and record to tape, then edit that? Can I plug it into the tv out? What wire will I need?

That completely depends on what outputs your videocard has. Some card only output to a monitor, some can output to TV.

 

[splinter_cell]

-) put that in ur autoexec.cfg
bind "F11" "host_framerate 30; startmovie temp"
bind "F12" "endmovie"
-) record demos while u play
-) run the demo
-) press f11 to start recording
-) press f12 to stop recording
-) download virtualdub
-) file -> open video -> image sequence
-) select the first of the .tga files (should be named mapnam_tmp_0000.tga)
-) audio -> wav audio -> temp.wav in the hl2 directory
-) file -> save avi -> select destination and name

done
u can also compress the videos if u have codecs installed
video -> compression
btw: turn every thing to high when you are rendering the video
it wont affect the video framerate and does look better

where is the autoexec.cfg file? for HL2DM?

 

[Fireindaho]

C:\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\yournamehere\half-life 2 deathmatch\hl2mp\cfg

In that folder you can create an autoexec.cfg file with any text editor. The autoexec isn't in there until you make one.