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Hello.
After learning how to do it, I thought I’d write it in average English.
Final Render/Sample/Example here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTcmDF30AlI

This can be very useful for a lot of different cool effects/scenes that I have yet to see in the TF2 movie making arena. Use your imagination.

Its very simple.
You create a regular smooth and save it, like any other smooth. Including Spline Origin and Spline Angles. IMPORTANT:Remember your start and end ticks.
A good regular smoothing tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Db_THGSD8
Open the smoothed demo, and pause at the time/moment you want to freeze, this is what will be shown, the time/tick that will be smoothed in the render.
Then open the Demo Smoother, put in those start and end ticks you remembered/used before. hit Reload, then Select.
Mark all the ‘hide’ options (Legend,Original and Processed)
Now, have your recording binds ready.
On the Demo Smoother, click “show processed”. Close the regular demo window quickly (it will close the demo smoother as well, automatically) and hit your record bind. Wait while it records TGA’s, then use your stop bind.

This part is for people who go beyond monkey see monkey do:
What you are essentially doing, is creating camera spots, like in any smooth. But instead of playing those camera spots through an animation/sequence, in which the camera moves according to the time/tick, while the demo is running,
Your just casually pausing at a time/tick in the demo, and then when you click “show processed” your showing the camera movement/animation but not over the course of the demo, just as a camera animation. Since the demo isn’t playing, you get to see your camera move/show you things while paused. Its sort of like cheating.

Now, if your having trouble getting to see what you want, its easy.
Just pause at the time/tick that your going to record WHILE creating the smooth. Instead of keeping the DemoUI tick and the Demo Smoother tick consistent so you always know what your looking at. Because if your gonna record a certain moment in time, you only need to look at that moment :)

-If you still see lines, your doing it wrong. Read what I wrote and try again.
-If you see a bunch of small numbers, quit tf2 then re-enter and load that demo.

Good day.

Any way you can remove the red line in the middle of the screen?