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Video game video... ideas?

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Jmmsbnd007

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I'm planning to make one of those CS player videos, where there's a video in first-person perspective of the player showing off some skill, except mine will be for Call of Duty and possibly Natural Selection. I plan to record demos and capture them with FRAPS, but I have no idea what I should edit with. Premier? After Effects? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
Well, it depends on a few things.

First off, how to Fraps save files? I know Premiere can be mostly useless for importing some kinds of files. If you don't need to add more than a few titles screens and some music, then use premiere, provided it supports however FRAPS saves files.

After effects would do just as good, but it's like using a semi to deliver pizzas. (in normal quantity, of course.)

It also depends on how you want to save it. Personally I haven't used Premiere too much because my needs outgrew it quite fast, so I'm not sure about how it publishes/renders video. You may want to make your decision based on that.
 
the demos that i have seen, like the Q3 cetus_the_movie wernt done with fraps. fraps limits the fps it records at. even if you set it to 30, it kills the pc's performance. the best way i could think of would be to save demo's using the games demo feature, then capture the output via svideo, maybe to another pc with a capture card then use premier to edit them together.

JB
 
Originally posted by: ness1469
Well, it depends on a few things.

First off, how to Fraps save files? I know Premiere can be mostly useless for importing some kinds of files. If you don't need to add more than a few titles screens and some music, then use premiere, provided it supports however FRAPS saves files.

After effects would do just as good, but it's like using a semi to deliver pizzas. (in normal quantity, of course.)

It also depends on how you want to save it. Personally I haven't used Premiere too much because my needs outgrew it quite fast, so I'm not sure about how it publishes/renders video. You may want to make your decision based on that.
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Fraps saves as almost-uncompressed AVI, so I'd have to encode to DiVX later on I guess.
 
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
the demos that i have seen, like the Q3 cetus_the_movie wernt done with fraps. fraps limits the fps it records at. even if you set it to 30, it kills the pc's performance. the best way i could think of would be to save demo's using the games demo feature, then capture the output via svideo, maybe to another pc with a capture card then use premier to edit them together.

JB
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I am aware with the performance hit of capturing at 30 fps, which is why I make a demo recording using the in game demo feature, then play back the demo and record so I don't actually have to play the game at 19 fps.
 
i had this figured out once.

you need multiple computers, on one server, have a few ppl viewing the game, w/ them in spectator mode, running fraps. then you have a few ppl playing the game, each spectator has an assigned person, and view, maybe 2 ppl per person, with different views. then combine the fraps into one file after recording.

MIKE
 
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