-= How to Convert a Urban Terror Demo to an .avi =-

DankRider, Fri Mar 26 2010, 03:44PM




Attached is a config and autoexec I wrote to convert demos to avi.

F6 - Start Demo
F7 - Stop Demo

• 1 -Copy your gaming config and autoexec, replace them with the attached.

• 2 - Playback a demo as usual then hit F6. The demo is being recorded.

• 3 - F7 to stop the avi from recording.

• 4 - Your avi demo can be found in { UrbanTerror/q3ut4/videos } Move the demo to your desktop and play.

]demo_creation.zip[/file]


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Autoexec settings
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bind F6 video
bind F7 stopvideo
bind F8 r_gamma to 1.8

com_cameramode 1

cl_aviframerate 25.

r_overbrightbits 0

cg_draw2d 0









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Thanks for all the assistance it appears Woekely's instructions seem to work quite well:

Procedure:
-Recorded a demo on a server.
-Set quality settings in video card control panel to high (Anti Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, etc.)
-Started ioUrbanTerror, turned off full screen, set to 800x600 resolution and set all settings to high and turned off some interface stuff, like lagometer and fps-indicator. Set cl_avimotionjpeg to 1 (set to 0 if you want it to produce uncompressed, which is huge but higher quality) and cl_aviframerate to 25. Bind video to F7 and stopvideo to F8. Set r_gamma to 1.8. Used a compile of ioUrbanTerror that does gamma correction, even when r_overbrightbits is 0 (will be publicly available starting at 4.1).
-Played back the demo, and used F7 and F8 to record the video0000.avi, which is about 1.8GB).
-Loaded the video0000.avi in Adobe Premiere and did editing (cutting/music/effects/intro) and exported it as uncompressed (both audio and video) .avi with 25 frame rate and 800x600 resolution, which created a 7GB .avi file. Interleaved audio every second and used max precision in the key framing options. Could have used a compression directly from Premiere, but it didn't work properly for me.
-Loaded the 7GB .avi in virtual dub and compressed it to xvid and mp3. Did some experimenting with what bit rate gave the quality I wanted while maintaining a reasonable file size.

danks Notes: The Demos are huge. But all and all the process is quite easy