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From: Invisible
Subject: [TF2] The Pyro
Date: 15 Jan 2008 07:38:55
Message: <478ca95f$1@news.povray.org>
http://www.stage6.com/user/EvilDaedalus/video/2053546/TF2---How-to-play-the-Pyro

Short video explaining the tactics of how to successfully play as Pyro.

On one hand, the text zips past far too fast to actually read. (Pause 
button FTW!)

On the other hand, some useful tips there. And also, the music is rather 
good. [Apparently it's by a "well-known" band that I've never heard of. 
I had assumed it was just something somebody put together just for this 
video...] I find it particularly impressive that this person has managed 
to exactly time significant parts of the video to suitable changes in 
the music... that takes some skill!

Also... how is it possible to record yourself playing a computer game? 
Wouldn't that require some pretty expensive hardware?

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From: Fredrik Eriksson
Subject: Re: [TF2] The Pyro
Date: 15 Jan 2008 08:24:50
Message: <op.t4y3jpincs6ysw@e6600.bredbandsbolaget.se>
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:38:55 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Also... how is it possible to record yourself playing a computer game?  
> Wouldn't that require some pretty expensive hardware?


http://www.fraps.com/


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: [TF2] The Pyro
Date: 15 Jan 2008 08:35:18
Message: <478cb696$1@news.povray.org>
>> Also... how is it possible to record yourself playing a computer game? 
>> Wouldn't that require some pretty expensive hardware?
> 
> http://www.fraps.com/

Ah, OK. So it only requires some pretty expensive software then? ;-)

[Seriously, I thought running Far Cry was enough to make virtually any 
computer malfunction under the extreme load. Is it really feasible to 
run video recording software at the same time?]

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From: scott
Subject: Re: [TF2] The Pyro
Date: 15 Jan 2008 10:00:31
Message: <478cca8f$1@news.povray.org>
> Ah, OK. So it only requires some pretty expensive software then? ;-)
>
> [Seriously, I thought running Far Cry was enough to make virtually any 
> computer malfunction under the extreme load. Is it really feasible to run 
> video recording software at the same time?]

I bought Fraps a year or two ago and it's a really cool piece of software. 
It uses a custom codec to compress the video stream that is optimised for 
in-game recording direct to disc.  The files are pretty large so you always 
should recompress afterwards to h264 or xvid or something.

Usually I see a FPS drop of about 30-40% while recording.  What I sometimes 
do (if it's possible) is to set the "game" to play back at 0.5 speed, then 
record at 15fps, then force it to 30fps when recompressing.  Works pretty 
well.

Here's a video I made that was made with a combination of POV (for the first 
part), Windows Movie Maker (for editing and the text) and Fraps (for the 
in-game videos):

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6763259579742806316


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: [TF2] The Pyro
Date: 15 Jan 2008 10:58:15
Message: <g0mpo3tvl2ervp46k3fc97ddvuujs7u7r8@4ax.com>
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:00:45 +0100, "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:

>
>Here's a video I made that was made with a combination of POV (for the first 
>part), Windows Movie Maker (for editing and the text) and Fraps (for the 
>in-game videos):

Nice one but am I mistaken or does the car change from a RH drive to a LH Drive?

Regards
	Stephen


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