How to...in quake

How do I make videos on myself playing or demos or w.e? I wanted to make a video, and put music behind it. I'm pretty good with programs, I just need to know which program I need lol....so if anyone can help me out, that'd be awesome. thanks!

You'lll have to ask tad... he's the video man.

yea i learned from him,

note: its good idea to remove all screenshots from the folder in your baseq3 before making a video of your demo. back up the ss's or do whatever you want or move them to different folder.


Record a demo of yourself, 1st step.
then before you watch the demo you recorded.
type in console:

/cl_avidemo 25

then after that type:

/demo (demo-name)

now load the demo and let it play all the way through, or far enough for the part you want in your video.
after the demo is done type:

/demo stoprecord

then exit quake 3 arena go to baseq3 folder and go to screenshots..
here will be many screenshots here, as a .tga file format. now you need to get the program needed to convert all the screenshots into a video. this program is called: pjBmp2Avi

with the program just select the input folder, (the location where the ss are)
then the output folder where the avi video will be saved (desktop)
then press convert. the ss get converted from .tga > .avi format.

With the newly found .avi demo of yourself now you can add music and transitions and have some fun with it. hope this helps, let me know if you have questions! ribbit^


lastly, to add music and transitions the program listed above doesn't do that for you,
try camtasia studio or windows movie maker, or just google it.

to record a demo of yourself during gameplay,
type in console:

/g_syncronousclients 1

then type:

/record (demo-name)

or......

you can copy this to the autoexec.cfg file

//Demo Record

set recordon "g_syncronousclients 1; echo ^1Demo ^1Record ^3ON; record; g_syncronousclients 0; set recordemo vstr recordoff"
set recordoff "stoprecord; echo ^1Demo ^1Record ^3OFF; set recordemo vstr recordon"
set recordemo vstr recordon
bind F8 vstr recordemo

Directions: press f8 recording starts press f8 again recording stops. btw you can change it too any key you want to.

or you can just bind it and hit the button for start record and stop record

thanks guys, i'll figure it out

I use the way frog uses. I think I sent that to frog

omg it is sooooooooo complicated!!