Who wants to have some fun? VIDEO CAPTURING!

[SubKamran]

Yah, who wants to? I'm trying to figure it out with a program called SnapIt 7. It's 1337 at capturing a video of your screen, but I'm having trouble doing it with games.

I tried using FRAPS, but it slows down the game too much. Plus the file sizes are huge, so it would require me to use RAD Game Tools and convert it to binks or something else.

 

[Shuzer]

Isn't there a makeavi command inside D3?

Edit:

aviDemo = Saves a demo of your playing to an AVI movie file

Edit 2:

Oh, that one makes an avi of a demo. Do aviGame

 

[The Dark Elf]

recorddemo nameofdemoyouwanttorecord

recorddemo stop

avidemo abovename

Though I only get 256x256 frames outputted with avidemo. But the good thing is it records properly, every frame, so you could do it on a deathly slow computer and the recorded avi would look like you were running at full speed

 

[SubKamran]

also:

bind F11 recorddemo d3
bind F12 recorddemo stop

That might work too. Then you press F11 and F12.

SnapIt works, but it makes it go way too slow :|

 

[The Dark Elf]

also:

bind F11 recorddemo d3
bind F12 recorddemo stop

That might work too. Then you press F11 and F12.

SnapIt works, but it makes it go way too slow :|

don't forget to make a new key for screenshot though, since that uses F12 aswell

 

[SubKamran]

Well, I figured it out. Use FRAPS, then import the video to WIndows Movie Maker, then export it as a WMV (High Quality). Voila! Small file! 161MB to 5MB WMV

 

[SubKamran]

Well, who wants to watch the DOOM 3 Intro?

http://www.subkamran.com/lib/files/doom3intro.wmv

Audio sucks.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Well, I figured it out. Use FRAPS, then import the video to WIndows Movie Maker, then export it as a WMV (High Quality). Voila! Small file! 161MB to 5MB WMV

Sweet, thanks for that tip.

I'm going to make a really awesome video and edit it to a hollywood-worthy blockbuster with Pinnacle studio.

 

[The Dark Elf]

Sweet, thanks for that tip.

I'm going to make a really awesome video and edit it to a hollywood-worthy blockbuster with Pinnacle studio.

I'd recommend working out how to get avidemo working properly (functional audio and higher demo recording resolution) it doesn't depend on the speed your running as to what frames it captures or skips like FRAPS will (simmo tried it i think)

use the one in engine and you could do what you could do with source when it turns up. Play the game with everything down low or off so its super fast, recording the demo then avi record the demo with all your settings back up to the max possible. Should make for some nice video and you can claim it really does run at high everything at 120fps. Less messing around than fraps i guess too.

I just don't know how you'd make it record at a higher res than 256, probably in one of the config files though.

 

[Zerox]

Record with Fraps - Download VirtualDub - Select XviD MPEG-4 Codec - Start compressing - Filesize should be a lot lower now

 

[Prince of China]

I think Fraps is better.

 

[Zerox]

Record with Fraps - Download VirtualDub - Select XviD MPEG-4 Codec - Start compressing - Filesize should be a lot lower now

Results of 825Mb compressed Fraps-vid using VD.

Maximum quality (higher size) =193Mb
Smallest file (worst quality) = 5Mb

 

[CrazyHarij]

I'd recommend working out how to get avidemo working properly (functional audio and higher demo recording resolution) it doesn't depend on the speed your running as to what frames it captures or skips like FRAPS will (simmo tried it i think)

use the one in engine and you could do what you could do with source when it turns up. Play the game with everything down low or off so its super fast, recording the demo then avi record the demo with all your settings back up to the max possible. Should make for some nice video and you can claim it really does run at high everything at 120fps. Less messing around than fraps i guess too.

I just don't know how you'd make it record at a higher res than 256, probably in one of the config files though.

Aha, that sounds pretty good, I'll try it out.

 

[Zerox]

Try upping this command seta image_downSizeLimit "256". You think this would work?

 

[The Dark Elf]

Record with Fraps - Download VirtualDub - Select XviD MPEG-4 Codec - Start compressing - Filesize should be a lot lower now

Well you'd use another app to compile the images anyway. All avidemo does is output tga images per frame. So the difference in filesize means nothing as its what you do after with the images that matters not how they get put together, except avidemo doesn't depend on your fps.

Hmm downsizelimit, that might be the one, cheers, will try that when i next get a chance

 

[nw909]

This thread died, so I'll dig it back up and steal it's gold teeth.

I dunno what went on with this zsec zombie, but I like it!

Zsec zombie dance - 1.80 MB

 

[Zerox]

Hmm downsizelimit, that might be the one, cheers, will try that when i next get a chance

These should work instead.

com_aviDemoHeight
com_aviDemoWidth

 

[Blitzy]

Fraps kills any games framerate to the point of being unplayable at times.
Use GameCam: http://www.planetgamecam.com/
It doesn't kill FPS and it has many more features then Fraps, oh ya and it's free.

 

[The Dark Elf]

These should work instead.

com_aviDemoHeight
com_aviDemoWidth

Ahh thanks, still haven't had a chance to try it though

 

[Mattigus]

sorry for digging this thread up, but I can't get this working. I do recorddemo myDemo, then recorddemo stop, then avidemo myDemo, and it doesn't work for me. Anything I'm doing wrong?