To any Mac users

[cutter]

Have any of you had any success in recording demos using a screen recording program like Snapz Pro X or Screenflow on Leopard?

I have Screenflow, and whenever I record savage gameplay, the recording flashes basically every other second.

[Craw]

I have to say that I've never tried but after watching some sick sav vids, I've recently become interested in recording. Does savage for PC contain a recorder automatically? I've never really figured out what the Demo's tab is on the home page.

Anyways, I'll reply to this topic again once I get a good recorder working properly. Or tell me if you do..

[Django]

I have to say that I've never tried but after watching some sick sav vids, I've recently become interested in recording. Does savage for PC contain a recorder automatically? I've never really figured out what the Demo's tab is on the home page.

Anyways, I'll reply to this topic again once I get a good recorder working properly. Or tell me if you do..

you can convert demo's to raw video format within xr using the "convert" button after pressing the "demo" button.

[Nightmare]

heh I thought this topic title said "Too many mac users" at first glance

[Craw]

I have to say that I've never tried but after watching some sick sav vids, I've recently become interested in recording. Does savage for PC contain a recorder automatically? I've never really figured out what the Demo's tab is on the home page.

Anyways, I'll reply to this topic again once I get a good recorder working properly. Or tell me if you do..

you can convert demo's to raw video format within xr using the "convert" button after pressing the "demo" button.

but how do you record demos to begin with? (sorry if that's a stupid question)

[Moff]

i don't know if XR added a button to record them ingame or a hotkey, but in SFE you just open the console with ` [next to the 1 key] and type demorecord, of course it may be different on a mac so..

[cutter]

By recording demos we mean recording demorecordings, so changing it into a usable file type.

To do it, you just use a screen recording program or the XR demo converter (which doesn't work in Savage XR for mac very well, it can't even convert 1024x768 demos at 30 fps for me.

[Craw]

It should work with mac. The mac version that was created uses the pc version as a base and runs it natively, like parellels for example. Anyways, When I get home I'll do some testing. From past experiences I'd recommend using the savage recorder since it's designed for recording savage. But that's only based on past experiences.

I'll post again once I get home, ha ha the teacher just keeps talking about intermolecular forces!!

[Django]

I have to say that I've never tried but after watching some sick sav vids, I've recently become interested in recording. Does savage for PC contain a recorder automatically? I've never really figured out what the Demo's tab is on the home page.

Anyways, I'll reply to this topic again once I get a good recorder working properly. Or tell me if you do..

you can convert demo's to raw video format within xr using the "convert" button after pressing the "demo" button.

Again you don't need a third party recording application like fraps. You can use the convert button to change a demo to a video within the XR client. You will have to convert the raw video format afterwards. Seee the converter instruction in-game for more info.

[cutter]

I've tried to convert it DJ, but it simply will not record demos even at 1024x768 at 30 fps for me.

[Craw]

Okay!! So after spending a few hours playing/recording ha ha.
I've learned that who ever thought of this recording demo idea is brilliant because it barely if at all affects FPS while in game. As for the actual converting part of it, im using the lowest settings (320x240 ; FPS = 10) and it still takes bout 5 secs for ever 1 sec real time. Which to me is slow.. but this could be because how i SUSPECT it works is the server (not sure if it's newerth or the actual savage server) has to a) Send the data to you b) Then your computer has to encode it.

This is probly why when you tried having the settings on high like that, it simply went sooo slow that it appeared to be making no progress.

In my opinion i think that the server should send the WHOLE file first, then your computer encode it..

again, im not sure that's how it works but thats just my observations after one hour of playing with it.
(Correct me anywhere i'm wrong)

[cutter]

Yeah, I simply think that the Cidered/Wined Savage XR is losing some kind of functionality somewhere when its changed to a Mac compatible application, because my computer should be able to handle  it (2.4ghz core 2 duo, 2gb ram, 9600GT w/ 256mb of vram).

[Craw]

Agreed.
Are PC users able to do this conversion with ease?

[darkbread]

If you mean using a thrid party tool: yes of course 
If you mean using the demo converter: yes of course 

Ofc it takes some time to render every single frame, you need a good PC if you want to speed it up  Has nothing to do with Savage, just with your hardware

[Craw]

If you mean using a thrid party tool: yes of course 
If you mean using the demo converter: yes of course 

Ofc it takes some time to render every single frame, you need a good PC if you want to speed it up  Has nothing to do with Savage, just with your hardware

What quality do you usually import as?
(We don't know if it's savage or not.. considering the copies of savage made for mac are not offical.. just made by common Savage players.)