[Tutorial]How to make a professional CS Movie?

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Counter-Strike movie making tutorial - by: Me

 

Quick note: Use 800x600, full brightness/gamma, max_smokepuffs 0, auto-size xhair, green, and translucent to get BEST results with this tutorial.

 

1. First place a demo in your cstrike folder. Then you want to use the resoution 800x600 and full brightness/gamma. Next you want to turn off net graph, and saytext. To do so type net_Graph 0 and hud_saytext (save your config elsewhere to replace after done). Then you want to open your demo (viewdemo demonamehere). When you get to the part you want to make a clip of type "startmovie name 90" (without the quotes, and you may replace "name" with what you want the screenshots to be named).When the part is over that you want to capture, type endmovie.

 

 

 

2. Next, you want to open pjbmp2avi, if you do not have it, you may download it here (save to a folder). Then you want to open it, and locate your screenshots. When that is done, you may have many screenshots in your cstrike folder, so where it says "input name" type the name of the screenshots you want to make a clip of. Choose what name you want to save the file as, and make sure your "frame rate" is at "90" and "key rate" is at "1". Also, make sure you choose FULL FRAMES UNCOMPRESSED!

 

 

3. Now that you have the uncompressed clip, you want to open Vegas Video. Go to "File" then "import media" and locate your file. When that is done you will see it in the "media pool", now drag it up to the video track. Now you want to go to "File" then "Project Properties". Set the Width to "800" and the Height to "600". Now set the Field Order to "None (progressive scan)" and Pixel Aspect ratio to "1.0000 (Square)". Then set the frame rate to "30", Full resoultion rendering quality to "Best", Motion Blur type to "Gaussian" and Deinterlace method to "none".

 

 

 

4. Now that you have your clip in the video track, you may what to get rid of that HLTV bar, or your money on the bottom of the screen. To do so, right click your clip and go to Video pan/crop. Set the Size to 800x470 if you want it to look like below, you may change the "320" number to anything if you want a large portion of the clip to be shown. Make sure you only have the LOWER envelope icon indented.

 

 

 

5. Next you want to add some levels. Right click your clip, go to Media FX and drag Levels on to your clip(thanks to spider from moviemakers for the levels). Change the "Input Start" to .083 and "Input End" to .804 to get a nice crisp look. Also, add "Color Balance" and use the preset "Blue Highlights". Next, add "Color Corrector" and use the preset "Studio RGB to Computer RGB".

 

 

 

 

 

This is how it will look:

 

 

6. Now that your clip is done, it is time to render. Go to File > render ass and choose "Windows Media Video V9 (*.wmv) for your "Save as type". For file name insert the text you would like the clip to be named, and make sure you set template to "default uncompressed" (you can save it when done customizing). Also, make sure you check the boxes "Save project markers" and if you selected a part of a clip to render, check "Render loop region only".

 

 

 

7. Now click "custom" on your right hand side under "cancel" and above "about". Make it render at "Best". Now go to the audio tab. Setthe mode to "Quality VBR", Format to "Windows Media Audio 9" and Attributes to "VBR Quality 10, 44khz, stereo VBR" (thanks to MRZ from moviemakers for those settings). Next go to the video tab. Change the "mode" to "Bit rate VBR". Make sure your format is "Windows Media Video 9". change Image size to "Custom" and make sure width is at "800" and Height is at "600". Next change frame rate (fps) to "30", Average Bit Rate (bps) to "4 M" and Seconds per Keyframe to "3". You may now insert text into the template area and click the "floppy disk" to save the template. Now click ok and then save to get your clip Smiley

 

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