High resolution CS:S video

Here are sample shots rendered in 1600×896 resolution. The resolution is the biggest available when CS:S is running in widescreen mode. I had to crop 4 pixels from top and bottom to make resolution compatible with H264 video compression.

k1ller-militia01.jpgk1ller-militia02.jpgk1ller-militia03.jpgk1ller-militia04.jpgk1ller-militia05.jpgk1ller-militia06.jpgk1ller-militia07.jpgk1ller-militia08.jpg

Download the video (75MB)

http://css.setti.info/community/films/k1ller-militia_HR.mp4

Instructions how to create high-res videos

RECORDING CS:S DEMO:
record mydemo (creates mydemo.dem file)

PLAYBACK DEMO:

  1. Options -> Video Settings -> Set all high -> Enable VSync (ensures that frames will be "clean")
  2. cl_drawhud 0 (disables on-screen statistics)
  3. host_framerate 30 (sets framerate to exactly 30 fps)
  4. con_notify_something 0 (disables left upper corner messages)
  5. <some other HUD settings disabled too, don't remember anymore>
  6. startmovie mymovie (starts TGA sequencing when demo starts playing)
  7. playdemo mydemo (starts to play demo)


Notice that playing demo can be very slow but it does not matter. It can be slow process to create long video clips though.

CREATE AVI (high res movie):
VirtualDub -> Open TGA sequence -> …
VirtualDub -> Filter -> Gamma filter (more brightness)
VirtualDub -> Save as… -> Uncompressed AVI (very big file)

Compressing with x264 codec:
MeGUI -> Open uncompressed avi -> Save as x264 (mp4) video
MeGUI -> Open audio file -> Save as AAC audio

“Muxing” audio + video:
Mp4box -> audio file + video file -> Final video file (x264 movie with sound, mp4 file)