ETF2L – Latest activity in “How to convert .dem to avi?” https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/ Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393871 Quoted from Skyride
[...] It works, but it'll render out a shitload quicker. If you're editing say a 400fps export with frame blending, your hard needs to read nearly a gigabyte of files just to create a single second of video. Consider that's going to take 8-15secs on the average hard drive, that causes a big performance issue. Even if its 30fps, that's still ~70MB/sec which is right on the line of typical maximum copy speed of a hard drive.
Yeah the rendering takes a while, but then I don't ever use frame blending (because I like to watch my own videos afterwards) and also, rendering is slow anyway. An extra few minutes isn't going to kill anyone, I'm not fussed about it. Anyway, you would render uncompressed with vdub before editing then? Surely that adds a whole lot more time than it saves?]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393871 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:17:31 +0200 Reply by Bean https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393800 Quoted from Leftism
[...] I think you can only record to .tga using the Source Engine's build in movie making feature.
You can use jpeg in the startmovie parameters, and jpeg_quality, theres some obvious compression visible, but for a full 30mins I can live with it. As skyride says, I tried 30fps and tgas once. Oh boy..]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393800 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 09:56:58 +0200 Reply by adam-skyride https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393671 Quoted from Spike Himself
[...] What do you mean? I've not ever run into any issues with this.
It works, but it'll render out a shitload quicker. If you're editing say a 400fps export with frame blending, your hard needs to read nearly a gigabyte of files just to create a single second of video. Consider that's going to take 8-15secs on the average hard drive, that causes a big performance issue. Even if its 30fps, that's still ~70MB/sec which is right on the line of typical maximum copy speed of a hard drive.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393671 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:12:14 +0200 Reply by Leftism https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393664 Quoted from bean
Do you want to convert an entire demo? e.g. ~30mins of footage? If so I would record to jpegs and not tgas.
I think you can only record to .tga using the Source Engine's build in movie making feature.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393664 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:36:54 +0200 Reply by tteh-t https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393645 Quoted from Leftism
[...] I don't see it. All I see is the same way everyone here usually does it but instead of making a tonne of .tga files it makes a single .avi iirc, isn't this method unreliable in comparison to the .tga method? I remember trying before replays came out and had to record the same 20 second clip five times because image in the avi was fucked up.
That might be the case, but I'm assuming that you'd want to edit the video anyway as demos are what the are. And also, that is the basic guide. Using recording tools might be a good idea, however.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393645 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:25:35 +0200 Reply by Bean https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393638 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393638 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:54:48 +0200 Reply by Leftism https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393621 Quoted from tteh-t
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Demo_Video_Creation If someone is still wondering, here's the basic way to handle demos. It also includes a way to export movies directly to the AVI format.
I don't see it. All I see is the same way everyone here usually does it but instead of making a tonne of .tga files it makes a single .avi iirc, isn't this method unreliable in comparison to the .tga method? I remember trying before replays came out and had to record the same 20 second clip five times because image in the avi was fucked up.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393621 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:23:42 +0200 Reply by tteh-t https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393620 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393620 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:17:01 +0200 Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-2/?recent=393871#post=393607 Quoted from Skyride
[...] Except this is a horrifically bad idea because you go from being pretty badly hard drive limited to "I might as well be doing this on a pentium 3 for all the difference it would make"-hard drive limited.
What do you mean? I've not ever run into any issues with this.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393607 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:13:19 +0200 Reply by adam-skyride https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=393541 Quoted from Spike Himself
Vegas can import them as a sequence of images just like vdub does. It will appear in your timeline like any other video. http://i.imgur.com/11VhO.jpg
Except this is a horrifically bad idea because you go from being pretty badly hard drive limited to "I might as well be doing this on a pentium 3 for all the difference it would make"-hard drive limited.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393541 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:45:06 +0200 Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=393534 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393534 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:20:10 +0200 Reply by Wiper https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=393533 Quoted from Spike Himself
[...] Surely you'd want to edit before compressing? That's what I do anyway; load tga's in vegas, edit, render uncompressed, use vdub to compress, upload.
Wouw, load all of the .tga's in Vegas? How is that possible, editing thousands of individual image files? Can Vegas handle that? Anyways i just compress them with Vdub and then edit that file i get out of it, then render and upload.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=393533 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:17:12 +0200 Reply by Spike Himself https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=391730 Quoted from Wiper
Save as AVI, and that file will be the one you wanna edit in Vegas or whatever, THEN upload (the raw file after VirtualDub is pretty huge too)
Surely you'd want to edit before compressing? That's what I do anyway; load tga's in vegas, edit, render uncompressed, use vdub to compress, upload.]]> generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=391730 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:51:02 +0200 Reply by Wiper https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=391728 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=391728 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:08:27 +0200 Reply by Captainhax https://staging.etf2l.org/forum/general/topic-21751/page-1/?recent=393871#post=390706 generator=rsdiscuss&baseurl=https://staging.etf2l.org&feed=forum&forum=general&topic=21751&post=390706 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:41:26 +0200