Team Fortress 2 - Yet another HD test

[Zovam]

This must of taken forever to record with source recorder.

[kilgoredangle]

How do you convert .dem to .avi or .mp4?

[kilgoredangle]

Good sir, was final cut also the program you used to convert the .dem files to .avi?

[flamov]

@kilgoredangle I recorded the demo file, and then played it back while recording it with Fraps. Then I did the necessary conversion from the Fraps file. You cannot convert a .DEM to a movie file since it is, basically, a game file.

[ChocolateBear53]

@flamov startmovie 30 in console when playing demo i think

[Caused59]

360p is bad,

720p is good !

[Fardus1]

you are pretty good as scout!

[flamov]

Thanks!

[TheSpectical]

How many FPS do you get without fraps?

[flamov]

Around 180-250FPS with no particle effects (i.e. no action), and around 70-120FPS with lots of particle effects (i.e. lots of action).

[TheSpectical]

And when you record with fraps it's 60 FPS?

[flamov]

60FPS, because it limits it to 60fps when recording at 60fps.

[TheSpectical]

I thought Fraps made it limit to 30 FPS?

[flamov]

Yeah, because the default setting for Fraps is 30FPS. You can change it to others, such as 20, 30 and 60 (as well as custom FPS's). People mostly do it at 30 (or 29.8 professionally speaking) because it makes intense scenes look more intense.

[TheSpectical]

Fuck you asshole! lol!!!

[flamov]

Lol?

[TheSpectical]

Haha, well anyway... You are very good at Team Fortress 2

Very very very good.

[flamov]

Why thank you.

[TheSpectical]

Oh my good sir, I should thank you for making this video.

[xerokitembatudes]

I love music, you're very good at tf2

[flamov]

Why thank you. :-)

[ThatFlipKidxD]

Hey, how did you record with 60FPS? I record w/ fraps w/ 30FPS which is pissing me off

[flamov]

There's an option to choose the FPS at which Fraps records at. This was recorded on brand new hardware (295, Core i7 etc.) so the average FPS I get when playing is just under 200fps. I also recorded this off a Source Demo, so there was less stress on the CPU and GPU.

[ThatFlipKidxD]

Where it says like the FPS options ( 25, 30, 50, 60 and 29.97)? Should I choose 60FPS and record a source demo and record that with Fraps?

- Thanks for the response, very nice specs !

[flamov]

Apologies for the slow reply. I've been having trouble with replying to comments on Youtube recently.

You can choose 60FPS, yes, but you have to make sure your GPU can hold up 60FPS. When you edit the video, make sure you set the FPS timebase to 60.

I only chose to record from a Source Demo because I had never done it before and wanted to give it a try.

[th4tkid]

What compression did you use? When I try to record from a .dem file it always freezes up when I do anything but Uncompressed.

[flamov]

H.264. I recorded it through a .dem with Fraps (Fraps records uncompressed so it doesn't use more CPU cycles compressing the video while recording.)

I want to upload it again since the file size is now 2GB instead of 1GB.

[th4tkid]

Ah, I thought you used the in engine recorder, never mind lol.

[flamov]

I haven't tried it yet - is it any good?

[th4tkid]

Yeah its great for people who cant use fraps with a steady frame rate, I use it for some reason even though I have a mbp I just cant get it to compress. The video is huge, and it cant go larger then 4gb in size or it will glitch out.

[flamov]

Ah. I might try it out some time. Thanks!

[42Forty2]

Final Cut Pro? AWESOME! Wait... GTX 295? I thought the Mac Pro only had the GTX 285...

[flamov]

I recorded this on my PC, which has the 295. I then edited it with Final Cut on my MacBook Pro

[42Forty2]

I need your secret! What codec did you use so that Final Cut didn't get fussy with render times?

[flamov]

Look up "Perian" on Google. That should fix all your codec troubles (it supports the FRAPS codec as far as I know).

Apologies for the slow reply - I just found out that you can't post URLs in comments...

[doomroe3]

I hate you -.- my game looks like shit and i get like 10-30 fps depending where i'm at

[MarkQP]

same here, i already use a fps config and ati tray tools to make it uglier.

[flamov]

You can try out custom configs (autoexec's) for TF2 to improve performance.