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If anybody still has issues with the generated filenames, you can use this perl script [Link] to automatically correct them.

Run it with:

perl rename.pl "C:\path\to\directory"

where “C:\path\to\directory” is the directory where your image files are located.
It’s also possible to simple drop the .pl file into the particular directorty, run it without any arguments then:

perl rename.pl

Sample output:
Application started.
Directory: D:/TF2-Movies/recording_output
Opening directory...
Beginning bulk rename...
Ingored file '.' (No image file)
Ingored file '..' (No image file)
Ingored file 'a1_.flac' (No image file)
Renamed file 'a1_0.tga' -> 'a000000.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_1.tga' -> 'a000001.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_10.tga' -> 'a000010.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_100.tga' -> 'a000100.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_101.tga' -> 'a000101.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_102.tga' -> 'a000102.tga'
[...]
Renamed file 'a1_81.tga' -> 'a000081.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_82.tga' -> 'a000082.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_83.tga' -> 'a000083.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_84.tga' -> 'a000084.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_85.tga' -> 'a000085.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_86.tga' -> 'a000086.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_87.tga' -> 'a000087.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_88.tga' -> 'a000088.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_89.tga' -> 'a000089.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_9.tga' -> 'a000009.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_90.tga' -> 'a000090.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_91.tga' -> 'a000091.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_92.tga' -> 'a000092.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_93.tga' -> 'a000093.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_94.tga' -> 'a000094.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_95.tga' -> 'a000095.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_96.tga' -> 'a000096.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_97.tga' -> 'a000097.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_98.tga' -> 'a000098.tga'
Renamed file 'a1_99.tga' -> 'a000099.tga'
Ingored file 'bu' (No image file)
Ingored file 'filename.pl' (No image file)
Finished bulk rename.
Processed files: 305
Renamed files: 300
Ignored files: 5
Closing directory...
Exiting

Quoted from nTraum

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I will make sure to mention this the next time somebody asks me for an example of a completely unnecessarily overcomplicated script… ;-)

[Link]

ren a1_*.tga a*.tga

hail microsoft

Quoted from Wind

What is the problem with how the files are named? Is it because you need to have padding 0′s in front of the filenames?

Yes, startmovie standardises it to %06d.

Released a new build today. You can download it from [Link] as usual.
Changes include:
- Fixed preview picture staying stuck when disabling the preview picture while a demo was being rendered.
- Improved prefix detection logic: Will now automatically add an underscore if you use a command like “startmovie srcdemo/mymovie3″ (it will output all files with the prefix “mymovie3_” rather than “mymovie3″). The behavior is unchanged if the prefix does not end by a digit, so “startmovie srcdemo/mymovie” will not have an added underscore.
- Frame numbers are now zero-padded up to 6 digits, to match Source Recorder’s file naming pattern.
- Frame numbers now start at 1 instead of 0.

The source code is available here.

Quoted from Traxx

Just to make sure: is this the way this this tool is supposed to work [Link] ? or im doing something wrong ? ( left – standard frame, right – frame taken with srcdemo2 ).

Yeah that’s supposed to happen, it doesn’t look (as) blurry when the images are all moving.