IMHO its the most simple thing to make an avi movie from quake demos do it as flex and anemic told you darko. bind cl_avidemo 30 and cl_avidemo 0 and then just start watching demos when hit, cl_avidemo 30 will actually start taking screenshots from that point until you hit cl_avidemo 0 again. so you will have one shot for your future movie do that as many times as desired and then go into virtuadub, merge all the screenshots into little movies and then use the old trustworthy windows movie maker and put some sound or some effects on it and there u go, you have a movie

ooh cant wait to see your demo

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so if i already have the demo, in quake format, i cant convert to avi? cause all i see is how to make an avi demo

I think we need to clarify the basics of the two file formats.

Demos and videos are two completely different things, like apples and monster trucks, you can't convert one to the other just like that. A demo is a small file with simple commands, it just records your movement in Quake and replays it in realtime in your Quake engine whenever you watch the demo. This is why you can can switch the point of view when watching and things like that. A video, as we all know, is a collection of separate images played back real fast. If you want to "convert" your demos into avis, you're going to have to take screenshots of the realtime demo playback and merge those screenshots together.

And I would NOT recommend using stuff like Fraps. Having Quake take screenshots in .tga format via the cl_avidemo command will get you the best quality to work with. Don't compress your files before you've finished the movie, or you'll be compressing twice - once before editing, and again once on final export - destroying the image quality even more. If you want an example of this, open up an image in your image editor of choice, export the image into the JPEG format, then open up that new .jpg file and export that again, then open that new file, export it, etc. Keep going and at some point the result will look like utter crap.

You're going to need a large HD to work with uncompressed images, but quality video editing has always been like this.

i actually got it after i posted anyway