20-06-2009, 10:20 PM
Making CS Clips - The Short, Free, Easy Way : Source
Lately, I've noticed a lot of people posting their Counter-Strike clips. Others wish to know how to make them and where to host them. This guide will teach you how to make Counter-Strike clips and host them so you can show them to friends or post them on forums. Note that this guide is made as basic as possible while still retaining some quality to your clip. You should have a basic knowledge of Counter-Strike and CS demos before you tackle the rest of this guide. This guide is not by any means meant to teach you how to make your clip with exceptional quality and editting. You can complete this entire guide without paying for anything except for Counter-Strike of course. All programs used in this guide are free to download. The links are here:
VirtualDub 1.6.11 - http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
XviD 1.1.0 - http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe
Installation for XviD is pretty straight-forward. For VirtualDub, simply put all the files from the .zip into a folder and run the VirtualDub.exe to open the program.
Step 1 - Recording your demo
Fig 1 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 2 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
In order to get your gameplay into a recorded file, we must use Counter-Strike's built in recording system. To record a demo, while connected to a server, open the console and type "record mydemo" (without the quotes) where "mydemo" is the name you wish to name the demo (Fig 1). Once you are finished playing, open the console and type "stop" (without the quotes, Fig 2). Disconnecting from the server or quitting Counter-Strike will automatically stop the demo. The demo file will end up in your cstrike folder (Default is C:/ Program Files/ Steam/ SteamApps/ youremail/ Counter-Strike/ cstrike).
Step 2 - Make BMPs
Fig 3 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 4 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 5 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 6 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Before we watch the demo and extract the footage to make the video clip, we'll set certain settings within Counter-Strike to improve the appearance of the clip and make it a bit more clean looking than raw ingame footage. First thing we need to do is change the resolution to 800x600. This will keep the file at a reasonable size (Fig 3). Second, we will type in certain settings into the console to get rid of certain parts of the HUD and make the crosshair sized to the 800x600 resolution. The commands we will use are (Fig 3):
hideradar
hud_saytext 0
voice_enable 0
hud_centerid 0
cl_crosshair_size medium
Now that we have all the settings set, in console, type "viewdemo mydemo" (without the quotes) where "mydemo" is the name of the demo you recorded (Fig 4). This will begin the playback of your demo. Find the part in the demo where you want your clip to begin and either pause it or complete the next section quickly. If the join team menu does not go away, open the console and type "slot1" (without the quotes. Note that opening the console may restart your demo and you might have to find the part in the demo again).
When you are ready to begin your clip, in console type "startmovie mymovie 90" (without the quotes) where "mymovie" is the name you want to use for your BMPs (this name is entirely irrelevant and won't affect the name of your final clip so just keep it simple, Fig 5) and press 'ESC' to quit out of the console. Things will be moving pretty slow which is normal, this process will output the ingame screen to .bmp files at 90 frames per second to your cstrike folder, all starting with the name you chose (ie: mymovie) followed by the number of the frame. Once you have reached the end of the segment you wish to make into a clip, open the console and type "endmovie" (without the quotes, Fig 6) and exit out of Counter-Strike.
Step 3 - Making the .AVI File
Fig 7 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 8 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 9 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 10 - http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9426/1..
Fig 11 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 12 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Now that we have all our frames into .bmp files, we are ready to compile them all together into one video file. Open VirtualDub and click File > Open (Fig 7). Browse to your cstrike folder and select the first .bmp file of your sequence (ie: mymovie00001) and make sure "Automatically load linked segments" is check (Fig 8). This will load your BMP files into VirtualDub. Now this is the part that may seem a bit tricky. Go to Video > Frame Rate (or hit Ctrl+R, Step #1 of Fig 9). Select "Change to" and make it 90 and click OK (Fig 10). Now go to Video > Fast recompress (Step #2 of Fig 9). Go to Video > Compression (or hit Ctrl+P, Step #3 of Fig 9). This will bring up the Compression menu. From the list, select "XviD MPEG-4 Codec" and hit Configure (Fig 11). Make sure to follow this part correctly or your clip may come out bad quality. Change Encoding type to "Single Pass” (Step #1 of Fig 12) then click "Load Defaults" (Step #2 of Fig 12). Now click on the button that says "Target quantizer" so it changes to "Target bitrate (kbps)" (Step #3 of Fig 12) and enter 4000 as the bitrate (Step #4 of Fig 12). Click OK until you get back to the main screen and go to File > Save (or hit F7). Name your file and save it where you'd like. Open your .avi file and watch your newly created clip.
Step 4 - Uploading Your Clip
Fig 13 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 14 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Head on over to http://www.putfile.com and click the Browse button and open your .avi (Fig 13). Select file type "Video", enter a Title and Category for your video and click "Upload Media". This may take a while so wait a few minutes. When it has finished uploading, a page that shows the URL to your clip will appear (Fig 14). Sending the URL to your friends or posting on forums will link viewers directly to your clip.
Miscellanious
If you want cut off the parts of the clip that shows the console, simply go into your cstrike folder and preview your BMPs and delete the ones that have the console in it accordingly. Adding music, effects, colors, widescreen etc. will require more work and will not be covered in this guide. For more help check out Saeed's Movie Making Tutorial thread (http://gotfrag.com/cs/forums/thread/177982/ ). The codec settings used will make for about 30mb/min. Putfile only allows 25mb video files meaning your clip will have to be under 50 seconds in length so keep that in mind. Once you have finished making the .avi, I highly suggest deleting the BMPs because those will take up many gigabytes of space on your harddrive.
This is the outcome I got making a test clip using settings/instructions from this tutorial: http://media.putfile.com/Making-Clips
Tutorial by: mxma1-s1ntax
If your clip comes out choppy
Try using startmovie 30 instead of startmovie 90 and skip the step where you change the frame rate from 30 to 90 in VirtualDub (skip fig #9 and #10). I've noticed that Putfile has a problem with playing 90 fps clips.
About my own file ..m still working to get somemore better shots to display..Moreover our caln never won a game championship yet so no good videos available. I wil post my own for u guys soon. Till den Njoy [
]
SourcE: http://www.gotfrag.com/forum
The tutorial for CS 1.6 clipping that has everything you need, A-Z,
http://www.pgl.ro/forum/showthread.php?t=..
or
http://www.style-productions.net/?page=re..
(make an account to view tutorial)
Read the tutorial, it's thorough and detailed, hopefully should answer many questions people come up with.
How to make a movie with very limited space and still maintaine awsome quality:-)
We all know how much space it takes to make a movie, well he are a few things you can do to make a movie with very limited space.
1) when converting .bmp to .avi compress with huffywuv it's a lossles codec witch will cut the file size i half while still maintaing the same quality. http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/..
2) Delete your bmp's imediatlye after you converted them into .avi they take up alot of space.
3) try looking for a ftp to upload your demos onto, if your making a movie on your self then upload your demos onto a ftp and download it when you need it, then after done with delete it.
OR
You can put them all into a rar file and burn it to a cd and only have the demo or demos in use on comp.
4) if your using fraps to capture ingame sound, record at a lower fps, for ex. if the highest is 60 and the lowest is 20 use 20, it will take up less space.
5) its your own choice to use fraps or startmovie, using fraps for capturing both video and audio saves a lot of space. fraps = startmovie 30 = barely any worse than 90
6) When your done intro, render it uncompressed and delete the avis used for it this will save 4-5 gigs depending how big your intro is.
Lately, I've noticed a lot of people posting their Counter-Strike clips. Others wish to know how to make them and where to host them. This guide will teach you how to make Counter-Strike clips and host them so you can show them to friends or post them on forums. Note that this guide is made as basic as possible while still retaining some quality to your clip. You should have a basic knowledge of Counter-Strike and CS demos before you tackle the rest of this guide. This guide is not by any means meant to teach you how to make your clip with exceptional quality and editting. You can complete this entire guide without paying for anything except for Counter-Strike of course. All programs used in this guide are free to download. The links are here:
VirtualDub 1.6.11 - http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/
XviD 1.1.0 - http://www.koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe
Installation for XviD is pretty straight-forward. For VirtualDub, simply put all the files from the .zip into a folder and run the VirtualDub.exe to open the program.
Step 1 - Recording your demo
Fig 1 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 2 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
In order to get your gameplay into a recorded file, we must use Counter-Strike's built in recording system. To record a demo, while connected to a server, open the console and type "record mydemo" (without the quotes) where "mydemo" is the name you wish to name the demo (Fig 1). Once you are finished playing, open the console and type "stop" (without the quotes, Fig 2). Disconnecting from the server or quitting Counter-Strike will automatically stop the demo. The demo file will end up in your cstrike folder (Default is C:/ Program Files/ Steam/ SteamApps/ youremail/ Counter-Strike/ cstrike).
Step 2 - Make BMPs
Fig 3 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 4 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 5 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 6 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Before we watch the demo and extract the footage to make the video clip, we'll set certain settings within Counter-Strike to improve the appearance of the clip and make it a bit more clean looking than raw ingame footage. First thing we need to do is change the resolution to 800x600. This will keep the file at a reasonable size (Fig 3). Second, we will type in certain settings into the console to get rid of certain parts of the HUD and make the crosshair sized to the 800x600 resolution. The commands we will use are (Fig 3):
hideradar
hud_saytext 0
voice_enable 0
hud_centerid 0
cl_crosshair_size medium
Now that we have all the settings set, in console, type "viewdemo mydemo" (without the quotes) where "mydemo" is the name of the demo you recorded (Fig 4). This will begin the playback of your demo. Find the part in the demo where you want your clip to begin and either pause it or complete the next section quickly. If the join team menu does not go away, open the console and type "slot1" (without the quotes. Note that opening the console may restart your demo and you might have to find the part in the demo again).
When you are ready to begin your clip, in console type "startmovie mymovie 90" (without the quotes) where "mymovie" is the name you want to use for your BMPs (this name is entirely irrelevant and won't affect the name of your final clip so just keep it simple, Fig 5) and press 'ESC' to quit out of the console. Things will be moving pretty slow which is normal, this process will output the ingame screen to .bmp files at 90 frames per second to your cstrike folder, all starting with the name you chose (ie: mymovie) followed by the number of the frame. Once you have reached the end of the segment you wish to make into a clip, open the console and type "endmovie" (without the quotes, Fig 6) and exit out of Counter-Strike.
Step 3 - Making the .AVI File
Fig 7 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 8 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 9 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 10 - http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/9426/1..
Fig 11 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 12 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Now that we have all our frames into .bmp files, we are ready to compile them all together into one video file. Open VirtualDub and click File > Open (Fig 7). Browse to your cstrike folder and select the first .bmp file of your sequence (ie: mymovie00001) and make sure "Automatically load linked segments" is check (Fig 8). This will load your BMP files into VirtualDub. Now this is the part that may seem a bit tricky. Go to Video > Frame Rate (or hit Ctrl+R, Step #1 of Fig 9). Select "Change to" and make it 90 and click OK (Fig 10). Now go to Video > Fast recompress (Step #2 of Fig 9). Go to Video > Compression (or hit Ctrl+P, Step #3 of Fig 9). This will bring up the Compression menu. From the list, select "XviD MPEG-4 Codec" and hit Configure (Fig 11). Make sure to follow this part correctly or your clip may come out bad quality. Change Encoding type to "Single Pass” (Step #1 of Fig 12) then click "Load Defaults" (Step #2 of Fig 12). Now click on the button that says "Target quantizer" so it changes to "Target bitrate (kbps)" (Step #3 of Fig 12) and enter 4000 as the bitrate (Step #4 of Fig 12). Click OK until you get back to the main screen and go to File > Save (or hit F7). Name your file and save it where you'd like. Open your .avi file and watch your newly created clip.
Step 4 - Uploading Your Clip
Fig 13 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Fig 14 - http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a241/mx..
Head on over to http://www.putfile.com and click the Browse button and open your .avi (Fig 13). Select file type "Video", enter a Title and Category for your video and click "Upload Media". This may take a while so wait a few minutes. When it has finished uploading, a page that shows the URL to your clip will appear (Fig 14). Sending the URL to your friends or posting on forums will link viewers directly to your clip.
Miscellanious
If you want cut off the parts of the clip that shows the console, simply go into your cstrike folder and preview your BMPs and delete the ones that have the console in it accordingly. Adding music, effects, colors, widescreen etc. will require more work and will not be covered in this guide. For more help check out Saeed's Movie Making Tutorial thread (http://gotfrag.com/cs/forums/thread/177982/ ). The codec settings used will make for about 30mb/min. Putfile only allows 25mb video files meaning your clip will have to be under 50 seconds in length so keep that in mind. Once you have finished making the .avi, I highly suggest deleting the BMPs because those will take up many gigabytes of space on your harddrive.
This is the outcome I got making a test clip using settings/instructions from this tutorial: http://media.putfile.com/Making-Clips
Tutorial by: mxma1-s1ntax
If your clip comes out choppy
Try using startmovie 30 instead of startmovie 90 and skip the step where you change the frame rate from 30 to 90 in VirtualDub (skip fig #9 and #10). I've noticed that Putfile has a problem with playing 90 fps clips.
About my own file ..m still working to get somemore better shots to display..Moreover our caln never won a game championship yet so no good videos available. I wil post my own for u guys soon. Till den Njoy [
]SourcE: http://www.gotfrag.com/forum
The tutorial for CS 1.6 clipping that has everything you need, A-Z,
http://www.pgl.ro/forum/showthread.php?t=..
or
http://www.style-productions.net/?page=re..
(make an account to view tutorial)
Read the tutorial, it's thorough and detailed, hopefully should answer many questions people come up with.
How to make a movie with very limited space and still maintaine awsome quality:-)
We all know how much space it takes to make a movie, well he are a few things you can do to make a movie with very limited space.
1) when converting .bmp to .avi compress with huffywuv it's a lossles codec witch will cut the file size i half while still maintaing the same quality. http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/..
2) Delete your bmp's imediatlye after you converted them into .avi they take up alot of space.
3) try looking for a ftp to upload your demos onto, if your making a movie on your self then upload your demos onto a ftp and download it when you need it, then after done with delete it.
OR
You can put them all into a rar file and burn it to a cd and only have the demo or demos in use on comp.
4) if your using fraps to capture ingame sound, record at a lower fps, for ex. if the highest is 60 and the lowest is 20 use 20, it will take up less space.
5) its your own choice to use fraps or startmovie, using fraps for capturing both video and audio saves a lot of space. fraps = startmovie 30 = barely any worse than 90
6) When your done intro, render it uncompressed and delete the avis used for it this will save 4-5 gigs depending how big your intro is.
i forgot to tell this ! plz pay attention to this while making videos 
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