simple QL recording guide

[ybl]

soo, after reading all the existing guides, it took me 3h of google research to create my first 1min video. thats not how it should be...
heres a really simple guide..


install these proggies first (all free). make shortcuts (send to desktop) to all .exe

- wolfcam
- virtual dub
- windows live movie maker


now, settings 4 wolfcam. moviemaking creates very large files, especially when making HD recordings. so its probably better to record on other drive: [this step is only needed, when free space on C-Drive is <50 GB]
- create a shortcut (wolfcamql.exe), and add this stuff to properties:

C:\....Wolfcam\wolfcamql.exe +set fs_homepath "E:\Wolfcam Record"

then create a folder with the name "Wolfcam Record" on ur E-drive, also make a shortcut (send to desktop).

config commands for wolfcam according to this guide:


bind l "vstr recordit"
seta recordit "vstr recordit1"
seta recordit1 "video jpg wav ; set recordit vstr recordit0"
seta recordit0 "stopvideo ; set recordit vstr recordit1"

seta cl_aviFrameRate "60"



(1) now. first step, start a demo in wolfcam and record for a while (press l), dont mind the slomo. it will write tons of screenshots plus a .wav soundfile.
(2) then start virtual dub, draw the first .jpg in. go: video => frame rate => set to 60, same as cl_aviframerate (if u forget this, its not a problem*) and then click "save as AVI". this will take a while. it creates a massive avi-file without sound.
(3) now launch window movie maker and draw the .avi in. go "add music" and choose the .wav. save as blabla, wait, thats it, movie done
(*) if u forgot to set the framerate in VD, then set WMM speed to 6x




notez:
- the folder e:\...wolfcam record/wolfcam-ql/videos can be deleted completely (no need to delete the thousands of .jpg)
- check antialiasing in grafixdriver (doesnt seem to work in WC??)
- while recording the demo in WC, its better to not do anything else on the computer, it may result in soundbugs and stuff.
- tweak ur wolfcam config: start wolfcam and write in console: /devmap campgrounds [check the config from kittenignition]
- a bit higher fov smooth the video, while blur looks schitty, imo. a bit of bloom seems ok too
- WC eats CPU, quit before rendering
- lower WC-resolutions speed the whole process up massivly
- CRASH: to prevent crashes: check the taskmanager, when Wolfcam is eating RAM, then quit and restart. also it seems that using the Pause-key before executing a vid_restart helps a bit! Wolfcam gets bigger when switching between fullscreen and windowmode and also when tweakinhg config/HUD/script files.
- to speed up everything a lot: get a SSD


i made a new autoexe, contains some stuff. also i made some explosion-effects. check last post on page 2


hf


part 2: post #15

[Epikt]

Hum... I'm no wolfcam expert, but you don't get any sound with this cfg, do you?
("/video jpg wav" will give you the sound, as far as I know)

By the way, isn't it better to directly record avi from wolfcam with "/video avi", instead of taking screenshots and merging them?
(at least for short clips, 20 minutes matches would give you insanely huge files since it comes uncompressed)

[ybl]

Hum... I'm no wolfcam expert, but you don't get any sound with this cfg, do you?
("/video jpg wav" will give you the sound, as far as I know)

By the way, isn't it better to directly record avi from wolfcam with "/video avi", instead of taking screenshots and merging them?
(at least for short clips, 20 minutes matches would give you insanely huge files since it comes uncompressed)

"video avi" doesnt work here, dunno why. creats a massive file, but when i play it its 12sec long. some bug..


added the sound to topic. worx in moviemaker.

everything went better than expected

[Adderall]

Your simple guild is in 2 threads on this forum with over 90 pages each. One is called Wolfcam other is Recording. They have been up for xxxx months.Windows live movie maker is trash, use something else. video avi works fine in wolfcam just set cl_aviFrameRate to whatever. bind f10 "video avi" bind f11 "stopvideo"

ROFL your 3 hours of google didn't do much - Incase you missed these two threads with better info

http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...rding-Guide-v2
http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showt...85-WolfcamQL-D

[ybl]

as i said, video avi doesnt work here.
and the rest of ur ****post: its not that simple. u start recording, and after a few seconds *kabumm* nothing goes, panic, c-drive is full. so, how long did it take until i found this one, absolutly vital information of how to ****ing record on other drive. why is this not in the op, its supposed to be a guide, amirite. well, it took a long time. and so on. sony vegas, yeah. everywhere u read about sony vegas, its a stupid lol. i searched and installed different proggs, nothing worked, then i found the super simple solution, good ol microsoft. and so on.
these existing guides are not for beginners. also, this is the internet. threads are filled with wrong, useless stuff, or with ****. just let me do this my way, why do u even care. ah well.
maybe u tell me, why i cant video avi, that would be great actually.

[Adderall]

Dunno why you cant record to avi, but it does indeed work. 12 seconds of uncompressed avi for me turns into 961 MB (1,008,578,560 bytes). Thats not that much at all for hard drive to go kaboom

[ybl]

maybe some local bug. on the other hand, if u want to edit, its probly better to go via screens.
my harddrive goes kaboom, because c-drive is small and only contains windows. thats pretty common actually (its safer this way, if windows need reinstall, all other data isnt touched).

did some math, ur avi seems to have the same size, as what u get with step (2). can u shrink it the same way then

[M0NG3R]

This guide is horrible. I read a couple lines and immediately saw that it was full of fail.

I actually didn't need to read the OP to know how bad it would be; it's obvious how little you know about what you're doing, therefore also obvious that any guide you write will be just as bad.

Adderall knows what he's talking about, stuhl doesn't. M0NG3R knows what he's talking about, as well. If you want a guide to editing a movie, go to videocopilot or equivalent. If you want a guide on capturing some footage in QL/Q3, read KittenIgnition's wolfcam thread, or Domino's moviemaking thread. They aren't guides on editing, rendering, encoding, or anything of that sort.


tl;dr stuhl is a nub, don't listen to him.

[ybl]

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[ybl]

i have made some weapon FX script stuff (got help from a moviemaker), and its awesome!
heres the first result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGw6U6hu0E

rail and grannys r tweaked too, but not available on asylum (demo choice failed)
will prbly add a post about this


wmm is doing unexpected stuff. making a movie 60fps instead of 30fps gives a file that is 10% bigger, strange

however, heres a HD test, all steps in 1920x1080 60fps and bitrate 10000bs (which is not so much, i saw videos that use 24000 b/s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXRqbeoZbh4