CEVO L4D2 Round 7 Iono vs Right 2 Live (Archive)

Introduction:

Hey how's it going, lupe121283 saying hi again for the new week in Branching Gaming Tourney.  I am doing this new format of releasing my videos as explained in one of my post on another blog.  In short form, I am doing this since I am doing all the work in the other two channels.  It will give some change to see if I can up the quality of the videos.  I will explain how I make my videos.

My Process of making a typical Left 4 Dead 2 video (not a full explaination of the whole process):

1. I first put the typical .demo file in to the root folder of where Left 4 Dead 2 is located (where maps, system. etc. folders are held)
2. I start the game and make sure that all my video settings are on the highest.  I record my footage with the dimension of 854 x 408 (lupe change it when you get home)
3. I then go to the console command and then type in "playdemo" then the demo filename.  The load times will be long if it's the first time you play a demo file.  That is why it's necessary when you are ingame from that demo file to redo "playdemo " command so that there won't be any hiccups.  
4. I usually have the [ key bind as "demo_resume" and the ] key as "demo_pause" so that I can pause the demo file instead of using the UI of the demo.  It takes longer to just push the "shift+F2" key so that I can pause it.  
5. Once paused, I type in these command in the console command: "Voice_enable 0" (so no ingame chat it heard) and "bind p 'Startmovie demo\first"  The "startmovie" command is what I use to record my stuff.  It's called Source Recording, but I have a bad habit of calling Source Engine Recording.  Don't know why.
6. I will sometimes resume the game so that I can see if the match is about to start.  Typical tournaments will have a "ready UP" so that everyone can get ready.  Sometimes they take a long time and this way I can edit out all the chatter and boring stuff from the beginning.  
7. Once they all ready up then I start the demo recording by pushing the P key.
8. Now I wait hours upon hours.  Typically (got to stop saying that word) a 15 minutes match takes about one or two hours to take.  Depending on the dimension, it may even take longer to record.  That is the one drawback to Source Recording, it does take a long time to do.  But it's really nice once it's all done.  
9. Once the match is done, I go to the console command and type in "endmovie" That will end the movie and close up the wav file.  Please note: depending on the length and the dimension all the files recorded will take up about 80GB of storage.  
10. I then use VirtuaDub and then drag the first tga file into it.  It will generate timeline of all the files.  then I go to video option, and then change the framerate of the video to 30fps.  Default will keep it at 10fps and that will screw when I have to edit.  You also have to change codec to Lagarth codec.  If I don't do that then it ill be 80gb (example).  Lagarth will still keep it at a nice size (around 20gb) and still keep a high quality.
11. This takes about an hour or less to do.  It takes longer if you save it to your that has the TGA files.  Best to save it to an external HDD.  
12. Once all that is done, I go into my editing program to start editing the footage.  I use Sony Vegas Pro 9.0 to do most of my videos.  I then edit most of the footage and take out most of the pauses from it or other stuff.  I then add the little stuff like who is playing and the score at the end of the round.  This take a good while since I have to make sure everything is good and do a lot of quality check.  Sometimes I do forget to do a section of the video, and that pisses me off.
13. Once I am done I use Sony AVC rendering setting (.MP4) to render.  A 15 minute video takes about an hour to render.  If it's a long match, then I do a overnight rendering.  
14. If the file size is too big (anything that is about 2GB and above) I use a program called Easy h.264 to just make it more compress will still keeping the same quality as the file render.  
15. The da is suppose to be upload, I stay up at around Midnight and then upload it.  At  connection a 2.5Gb will take about 7-9 hour to upload, and then about an hour or two to process thru youtube.  

SO that is a typical day for me.  NOTE: recording take all day to do, editing early morning thru noon, and then render.  Rendering should take be done before nighttime.  If it's too big then an overnight Easy h.264 process. Then repeat the process for all my videos until I have enought footage for the week.  thanks and enjoy.

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