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Now, everyone knows that recording clips from games is a very annoying part of putting together a frag video. To make it easier for myself, what I normally do is type 1 into team chat whenever I get something worth putting in a frag video. This allows me to watch through my demo at demo_timescale 12 (12x regular speed), then when I see the 1 I pause it, go back to the tick it begins at, execute my recording config and then record the clip.

However, this is still annoying to do, sometimes I miss the 1, sometimes I have a delayed reaction and have to go back a few times to get to the start of the clip.

I was thinking today, and I have found a different way of doing it. I created a bind to my Insert key which was this:

bind ins “say_team 1; demo_pause”

It bound insert to say to my team 1 and then pause the demo for me. This has no effect in game apart from saying 1 to my team, but when watching back, it will pause the demo as soon as it is told to.

I haven’t yet tested it in a proper game or pickup, but what I assume it will allow me to do is to watch demos through on demo_timescale 20 or even higher, as I don’t need to worry about pausing it.

Hope this will help some of you out there :D

Of course you could. But this way you could go through a full map in 5 seconds and it’d stop you exactly at the end of your clip. It’s just faster and more simple in my opinion, plus there’s no memory involved :D

Yeah, I understand you. But still I always just think that I did something awesome, and pressing one button takes less focus than remembering the timeleft or score. It’s probably not that great an idea overall to focus on good clips, but I barely find it a distraction tbh. I play, if something good happens, I’ll press Insert as soon as I’m out of danger, and I’m ready to keep playing.

Made myself a key without the teamsay part :) Thanks for the idea!