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Is there any way to convert a demo from prec to an avi or any other normal video codec without playing the demo via steam and recording screen with hypercam/fraps?`

ty in advance

record with lawena recording tool,
convert to video format using virtual dub

can’t convert a .dem straight to .avi since a dem file isn’t a video, iirc it’s a file that tells the game where players etc were and just sorta replays that

You first need to convert the demo file into a series of .tga images(which you do by using lawena recording tool), which you can then convert into a video file(using virtual dub), you cant directly convert a demo file into a .avi.

Quoted from slate

I’ve got a similar Issue, I’ve burned shotcuts for all files of my 2TB Moviecollection to a DVD, how come that won’t play on my DVD Player? It works flawlessly on my Computer.

lol

Here is the first part of SonofDadSC’s moviemaking tutorial, giving you the basics of recording. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIK4bVzFeFw&feature=plcp

Or just use the following console commands while having your demo loaded at whatever tick you wanna start your recording at.

Programmes to download: VirtualDub, Lagarith Lossless Video Codec

(run game in video-fitting resolution such as 1280×720)
sv_cheats 1
host_framerate 60
startmovie NAME raw
endmovie

Now, you’ve created a bunch of .tga images in your /tf/ folder, so you can exit TF2.
Open up VirtualDub and open the first of the .tga’s that you crated, called NAME0000. It will automaticly put the rest of the .tga’s with same name in there aswell. Remember to go to audio and select “audio from other file”, and go to Video and select Frame Rate, put it to the same as you recorded with in-game (60) and select Lagarith Lossless Video Codec under Compression.

Save as AVI, and that file will be the one you wanna edit in Vegas or whatever, THEN upload (the raw file after VirtualDub is pretty huge too)

Quoted from Spike Himself

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Surely you’d want to edit before compressing? That’s what I do anyway; load tga’s in vegas, edit, render uncompressed, use vdub to compress, upload.

Wouw, load all of the .tga’s in Vegas? How is that possible, editing thousands of individual image files? Can Vegas handle that? Anyways i just compress them with Vdub and then edit that file i get out of it, then render and upload.

Quoted from Spike Himself

Vegas can import them as a sequence of images just like vdub does. It will appear in your timeline like any other video.

http://i.imgur.com/11VhO.jpg

Except this is a horrifically bad idea because you go from being pretty badly hard drive limited to “I might as well be doing this on a pentium 3 for all the difference it would make”-hard drive limited.