New to editing.

[Cage]

I wanna get into casual editing so I made this shitty clip from a scrim we played earlier this night, it would be great to get some pointers.
How to make clean transitions and tie clips together if the kills are spread apart like the ones between bridge and z.

Don't laugh at my horrible editing skills, this was one of my first clips ever.

[Bromley]

Not bad for your first clip!. You're in the right place to ask for some help we have many talented movie makers in this community *imo*. If you want some stuff to practice with I have demos timed from my movie that was never finished *Thanks Blairsm/J'''''"*


Anyways good luck stick with it and you will do great!

[Cage]

Thanks! Some demos to practice with would be great, I don't have that many good clips myself..

[bewton]

I'm assuming you're using vegas video. What many people do is they mark the beats of the song so they can sync up kills to them. by clicking on part of the timeline where you see a beat, you can hit the "M" key on your keyboard and it will make a mark, so its easier to line up the kills. Many people also split their clips into the most exciting parts, cut out the walking around in between by rendering an hltv clip of them running from place to place. I would advise youtubing counter-strike 1.6 movie making tutorials, they have a ton of content and most things are pretty similar between cs and dod. Good luck!

[k4b00m]

Sony Vegas shortcut to split clips is "S". If I dont require an HLTV to show anything I just cut off small chunks of walking around to keep it interesting. For example, after your first kill, you could split the clip after you jump in the water, and then cut when you're in the doorway before you get the kill on the guy in ivy. You'll have a new section of the clip where you split 2 parts, and you can delete that little section and drag the 2 parts from the same clip together so the 2 ends overlap slightly and they will fade together.. Fiddle around with it so you give it a little leeway(sp) so its not so sudden between each kill, you could cut it multiple times to show small segments of your running, but dont overdo it, like you kill the guy on bridge, fade to you running through Z, fade to you looking at the allies beach house door and then turning around to look Ivy. then after that you can cut out all that running around at fruit and just fade to you about to strafe and look rope alley and kill that guy.

ALSO; use a movie config to take off the chat at the bottom, and the flags at the corner unless you prefer to keep that on.
try this one, has some extra shit that steve uses but its still good, http://www.jaggon.mantheperiscope.com/s ... /movie.cfg


ANOTHER EDIT, which a lot of ppl probably dont even know!; if you have an HLTV and it has all the gross text like welcome to hltv (GEE THANKS YOURE SO INVITING) you can actually remove all that BS, when you open HLAE, file-> launch, and before you click launch, make sure your custom command line options look like this!

+toggleconsole -demoedit

The demoedit command will make it so you have a few new buttons on your viewdemo bar, so do your thing exec movie config, load up your HLTV demo, when the demo is fully loaded click the new awesome button "Events" and click on one of the event lines, and click "Remove" then just hold down enter and it'll keep Removing all the lines until they're all gone, it wont ruin your demo thats just all the BS code to write text on the screen, and your HLTV will be 100% clean of ADS! you can also save the demo once you've removed the ads by clicking the Save button on the viewdemo bar so you dont have to remove them again later for that demo!

This may not make perfect sense, I'm kinda out of it and I kept backspacing random parts so bare with this hahaha.
HAPPY EDITTING!

[tenks]

Tip #1: Use Premiere Pro not Vegas.

Tip #2: re tip #1

Tip #3:

[k4b00m]

Yeah...actually I really gotta make the switch, haha. I downloaded the adobe bundle; premier/after effects/photoshop; but i dont know how to use them, it will take some time to learn the shortcuts and where everything is.

[tenks]

buy the keyboard covers for like $30. learning curve will flatline and you'll be a master in a few sessions..



most of the good ones are for macs tho...I wish they made more

[Cage]

Thanks Chris I tried doing what you said but I couldn't make it look good and I did not even know you could overlap the clips. I also use premiere PRO tenks, I went to a media highschool and that is what we used for editing and is the only program I know. I was a camera and sound tech guy though, so I'm not that good with all this editing stuff but hopefully I'll get there.

[stin]

I know this thread title says editing but capturing the clips is where most movies go wrong.

Using shit like fraps or 30fps only, slowmotions will be awful.
Best quality in GFX settings, movie.cfg, better explosion effects, some sprites, detailtextures maybe, removal of scoreboard from demos, adverts from hltv (might take little time). Some people tend to press scoreboard 24/7 cos of old habbits or stopsound script. Then HLAE supersampling or whatevs or oldfashion startmovie 90/120/150, whatever multiple of your final render fps. And save uncompressed avi, now you have full quality smooth clips to play with.

Maybe someone will disagree on this but I think quality, "perfection" in editing is 50% of the movie. Except those with awesome frags (an1mal,shiftyp,zoanth etc).