Guide to Battlefield Recorder

[imported_Draven]

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i want to know the same thing, how to remove the nametags in the demo. please help

Check out this link:

http://www.followme2.com/phpfusion/h...read_id=54#165

found on www.battlelauncher.com. I had great success after I used this link.

Battlerecorder allows you to record camera movements, which is something that I think Fraps doesn't allow you to do.

Think of Battle recorder as the camera crew on your movie. The demo you record is the set of your movie, and the demo is all the action happening on your set. With battlerecorder, you can place the camera anywhere and follow specific action.

Creating your movie is a involves 3 main things, recording your demo (in game), then recording your camera movements (from BFRecorder), then finally rendering the demo WITH your camera movies into the AVI file used for editing.

Once it's learned it's not bad, granted, It took me a couple/few days to get the hang of it, but once you do, it's not bad.

/Draven

[Silent_Ops]

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thx for the help

[Silent_Ops]

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ohh by the way can u rewind and if u can how?

[Raze31]

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Does anyone know if there are keys for slow motion. ?????? like the 1-9 keys are for speeding up. What keys are for slowing it down?????

[Silent_Ops]

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3 is the slowest 4 slower 5 slower some where around there it gets faster but try 3 its the ULTRA-SUPER-SLO-MO

[Raze31]

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Thanks for the help, very much appreciated. :)

[Silent_Ops]

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sure any time

[zacman13245]

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when i go to the commmunity section and do to download the file i always ge an error message, is this the servers fault for setting up the bfrecorder wrong?

[simpayne]

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what download? when i click the link it just shows a bunch of text.

[jnick]

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I don't wanna sound like a newb, but I downloaded a CAL match demo, and have no idea how to play it back. I have 2 demo files, which instructions of the OP do I need to follow?

[Raze31]

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Your going to lauch battlefield 2. Once your logged in, left click on community button (top of page) if you dowloaded the demos from a server that had battlerecorder on, then they will be listed on the right hand side. Left click on the one you would like to watch first, then left click on play file button (on bottom right). Unfortunatley BF2 dosent support playing two of them at the same time (right now). But Im sure there will be another patch out soon. Enjoy.............. :laugh:

[guitarjunkie66]

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nice one, cheers bud

[{9thInf}Scott121]

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very helpful thanks

[Systems]

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Hey Guys,

I started my BF2 movie adventure last night, and I have a few comments / questions.

First off, I have successfully made a demo and democam file. No problem. My problem came when it was time to render. I tried the default arguements "+r demoname democamname" and it ran ok, but I was a little worried about the slow frame rate.

So I ran it again with the arguements "+r +m (m makes the resolution 400x300)+fps 20" (fps 20 makes the frames render at 20 per second)

After running it that way, I was able to render with realistic frames (no 2-3 fps crap). The thing is, about 13 minutes into the video, the rendering stopped and I was back at my desktop. I thought this was odd, so I checked the AVI that it made, and it was a FOUR GIG file. I'm guessing that I got kicked to desktop because the max file size in windows is 4g (just guessing)

The thing is, the quality at 400x300 ain't so great. I was wondering how others are rendering at 800x600 and not getting 10g+ filesizes? I'm sure it has to do w/ compression, but the weird thing is, I'm not getting the little popup that asks what codec to use.

Anyone have any pearls of wisdom? 400x300 is do-able, I've already begun editing that little 4g cut and started laying some music over it, (BF2 music video) but I'd like the quality to be better.

Just in case the problem is my system, my specs are:

3.2Ghz P4 w/ HT
1g PC3200 Geil RAM
ATI 9600 Radeon
Windows XP Pro

Thanks for the help (if any)!

Great guide BTW ^__^

[gregorio007]

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After fighting with the Recorder for a few days, i finally managed to figure it out with the help of these and other forums. The Guide EA Games gave us is a piece of garbage. Its confusing to say the least. So i thought i would post my own guide. I'll make it as simple as possible. And on a side note: A demo or a demo file is another name for a BF2 Recorder file.

First of all you must know all off the keys necessary to use this Recorder.


Q – opens the Playback Rose. Move the mouse to highlight the desired playback option and press the Left Mouse Button to select. Options available here that are not bound to separate keys include "Restart" and "Quit".
T – opens the Camera Rose. Choose the camera option or cycle through the available players.
1 – Pause the playback (also available in the Playback Rose).
2 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
3 – Playback recorded session at 5% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
4 – Playback recorded session at 25% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
5 – Playback recorded session at 50% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
6 – Playback recorded session at normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
7 – Playback recorded session at 150% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
8 – Playback recorded session at 300% of normal speed (also available in the Playback Rose).
Spacebar – cycle between players.
Right Mouse Button – cycle between free camera and player camera.
Mouse wheel – zoom camera in and out when locked onto a player.
W, A, S, D, Ctrl and Shift – move free camera around map, forward, left, backwards, right, down and up.
Mouse look – aim free camera.

This step allows you to record your camera movements in the game.

1.Download ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/misc/demo.cmd and place this in both of these folders.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

2.Create a demos folder in the following location.
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2

3.Place all the demos that you wish to render into this folder. Your demos can be found in the following location.
C:\Documents and Settings\"yourname"\My Documents\Battlefield 2 Demo\Profiles\Default\demos
(I recommend rendering one demo file at a time so that its less confusing)

4. Open your command prompt. (This can be done by pressing start, run, and typing cmd. You may also be able to find your command prompt in your windows accessories folder.)

5.In your command prompt, type the directory to your BF2 Demo.
Example: cd c:\program files\EA Games\Battlefield 2 Demo

6.Now a line of text should appear that states yoru BF2 Directory.
Example: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo>
Type in the following command: demo.cmd +c "name of demo"
Example: demo.cmd +c demo8

Your game will start up and you should also recieve a message in your command prompt that states: Playing back demo and recording camera...
After you get past your game loading screen, you will enter a loading game screen. Once the game is done loading, click join game. You are now in your video. Any movements of the camera that you make now are being recorded.
It is STRONGLY recommended that you continure recording until the video ends. My video froze at the end and i pressed control+alt+delete and closed Battlefield out and my video works fine. Just be carefull on this step.

Playing back your video with the pre-recorded camera movements

1.In your C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2 Demo\mods\bf2\demos folder you will now find a BF2CAM file. This file is your video with the pre-recorded camera movements.

2.Now go back to your Command Prompt and type in the following:
demo.cmd "name of demo" "name of cam file" -def
Example: demo.cmd demo8 mydemocam -def

Your game will once again start up and bring you to a game loading screen. Click join game and you will begin watching your pre-recorded camera movements. Your command prompt should also read: Playing back demo with recorded camera...
I do not know how necessary this step is however it is helpfull in finding out how your camera movements look once they are all put together.

Converting to AVI

1. In your command prompt type the following command:
demo.cmd +r "name of demo" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +r demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again open. Just do as you did in the previous steps. Your command prompt will also read: Rending AVI...

2.Once the game loading bar is complete press ALT+TAB to minimize the game. A small box will have appeared. This is your choice of encoders. It is recommended that you use the DivX encoder. Click your choice, than press ok.

3.Open the game window back up (it should be minimized at the bottom of your screen) and click join game.
NOTE: You MUST leave the game and the video running on your screen until the video is over. If you minimize your game and try to bring your window back up during this encoding process, your game will close out and your AVI file will be corrupt.

4.If you choose to stop rendering before the end of the demo, press R.

Adding Sound

Your AVI file will not have sound in it. This step will help you to create a sound file to add to your video.

1.Type in the following command in your command prompt
demo.cmd +s "name of demo file" "name of cam file"
Example: demo.cmd +s demo8 mydemocam

Your game will once again load. Just do as you did in the previous steps. However, once you click join game, no video will play. You will begin to hear sound from your video.

*I have yet to complete this step. What I have considered doing is recorind the sound with fraps, than using fraps to create sound file. I may then be able to combine the sound and the AVI file in a video editting program such as Video Edit Magic.

I hope this guide helps everyone. I tried to make it as simple as possible.

I dont know that much about computers, can u explain that in simpler terms.