Recordings

Ok, so I have some cool recordings of playing with friends and I want to edit them and put them with some groovy music and all that. They run fine from the recordings section of the multiplayer section you get to from the mainscreen, but where are they saved on the computer?

Demo's do not work that way...

When you record a demo, it simply records the positions and actions of every player.

Think of it like a text file which says:

Player 1 switched to grappler
Player 1 fired grappler in this directions
Player 2 fired spinfusor in this direction
Player 1 fired jumpjets and activated skiing..


Then, when you play a demo it loads the "action" file (its not really text) into the game engine and recreates everything all the players did for the time the demo was recording.


Your best bet is to load up the game while running fraps or gamecam, then play the demo while recording via either of the two. Don't forget to tell fraps or gamecam to record the sound as well if you want to preserve them.

Voila! Browse to the appropriate raw recording directory, and you have your .avi files to work with.

Your best bet is to load up the game while running fraps or gamecam, then play the demo while recording via either of the two. Don't forget to tell fraps or gamecam to record the sound as well if you want to preserve them. Voila! Browse to the appropriate raw recording directory, and you have your .avi files to work with.

. . .And be sure you have a HONKIN' hard drive. And preferably a very fast one like a SATA or RAID if you plan to edit them in premeire or whatever. A fraps file from a demo will get HUGE real quick.

. . .And be sure you have a HONKIN' hard drive. And preferably a very fast one like a SATA or RAID if you plan to edit them in premeire or whatever. A fraps file from a demo will get HUGE real quick.


yup. its like 200 megs for 30 secs.
Thats at 25 fps and half size.

NO! I recorded 5 hours of stuff yesterday (dont ask why) and now I cant edit it!? Well I guess i could just replay it with the demo with fraps running, is there a way to fast forward through a demo playing?

If you make a movie, or any file larger than 2 gigs, you'll run into this problem. I'm not sure if there is a fix for this for NTFS, but if there is, I'd like to know also.

recording is broke.