Counter Strike 1.6 or CS 1.6 Movie Making

on Thursday, June 25, 2009


I have searched about this topic for a while now and gathered pieces of data from many places, now i will post my last thing before i am leaving to my practice school II station.
My tributes to Michael Jackson - The Legendary Pop Singer.

First i Will list all the Programs u Need

1. Counter-Strike 1.6
2. HLAE
3. Sony Vegas
4. Adobe After Effects
5. Particle Illusion
6. Video Mach or Virtual Dub
7. Other Softs like X264 or Xvid or mkv To compress the video

This almost list everything you need to make the movie. I cannot upload all the required and post the links, they are very famous and u can get them. If u have a problem in finding them post them in comments.
Now First of all get a Hud remover, i am using hud_remover_by_kzz its very good. The job of hud remover is that it removes all the un-necessary things from demo and gives us a clean demo to make video. Now u need a movie making config [comes along with hud remover ]. Keep the resolution of your CS either 960 * 600 or 1024 * 768 for better quality [ i suggest u to experiment with this ] and take the images now at 90 fps rate.

If u Want to obtain the sound along with action u need HLAE [mirv demo tool] or Sony sound forge. Which are helpful in recording the in-game sounds.

Now ur almost half way, u need to convert the bmp's obtained into a video. U can do this in video mach but i strongly suggest you to use sony vegas, as you can sync the in-game sound along video and get better quality. In video mach if final output is more than 2gb u get Faulty output.
Sync the in-game sound and a song and i suggest u to have the project resolution as 960 * 600.
Now to Render the video, render it in AVI codec with properties selected as uncompressed or HUFFY lossless codec.
Now u have a video With Huge size, don't bother we are going to reduce it by large percent.

If u have any effects add it in vegas or adobe after effects and then render in same codec as above.
Particle illusion is also to add the effects, it contains some of the best effects i have seen [ if u have creativity, it comes handy ]

Now That u have final uncompressed output u just have to compress it, which can be done in video mach or virtual dub very easily. For a cs video the best possible codecs to compress is Xvid or X264 [free version of H264] or mkv. The major thing that decides the size will be bit rate i suggest you to experiment with this, but i use a value between 4000 and 6000.
There are many of doing this but its easy to convert to x264 and powerful too.

for all after effects editing tutorials visit videocopilot.net
for all vegas, particle illusion and compressing techniques tutorials are available in www.youtube.com or Lynda.com for almost all tutorials.

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