<a href="http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~si/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4212&highlight=movie" target="_blank">Here's</a> one possible answer for you, courtesy of the Science and Industry forums.
It's not as easy as it sounds, its VERY unstable, you'll need a fair bit of ram, over a gig of free HD space, a pretty good processor and a lot of time.
The dem be rerun in a timedemo and then output to a large file. This file will then be split into about 5-15 1 meg bmp's PER SECOND, then you'll need a AVI compiler which takes a little time to setup and compile. You wont get sound unless you record the sound direct then overlay later. Its tricky to sync too.
<!--QuoteBegin--Moleculor+May 13 2002,17:51--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Moleculor @ May 13 2002,17:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin--><a href="http://www.hypercam.com/" target="_blank">Hypercam</a><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Hypercam is horrible (in my experiance) it always seems to have problems capturing the video fast enough
Someone was making a map for NS (called ns_jungle I think) that had this one GORGEOUS (though too cheery) area that was shown off with HyperCam. The video was silky smooth.
I made some <i>really</i> cool changes to the ns_shadow dropship bay (it's most likely completely finished now) and I need to post a video of it for people to understand it properly.
TEHFIRSTEDIT: Er, tried Hypercam. To be honest, it's the buggiest/crappiest program I have ever seen. EVERY time I try to record it says either "you're framerate is too high!" or "you can't do that, etc!". I set my framerate to FIFTEEN FRAMES PER SECOND and it gave me that. bah... I'll have to use that idea Rhoads gave me
TEHSECONDEDIT: I tried that method, but it keeps saying "startmovie only allowed during demo playback". How do I open .dem files?
type in console "playdemo nameofdemo" (no quotes <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> ) and the demo file should be in your main ns fodlr i believe, or head over to geekboys.org and download geekplay, it should work with all HL mods
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The dem be rerun in a timedemo and then output to a large file. This file will then be split into about 5-15 1 meg bmp's PER SECOND, then you'll need a AVI compiler which takes a little time to setup and compile. You wont get sound unless you record the sound direct then overlay later. Its tricky to sync too.
Fair warning <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
Hypercam is horrible (in my experiance) it always seems to have problems capturing the video fast enough
im pulling a sickie anyway so i went looking:
<a href="http://students.washington.edu/jvoss/asc/HLM2DivX/index1.htm" target="_blank">HL movie Producer</a>
never used it but it looks easier than that . . .
TEHFIRSTEDIT: Er, tried Hypercam. To be honest, it's the buggiest/crappiest program I have ever seen. EVERY time I try to record it says either "you're framerate is too high!" or "you can't do that, etc!". I set my framerate to FIFTEEN FRAMES PER SECOND and it gave me that. bah... I'll have to use that idea Rhoads gave me
TEHSECONDEDIT: I tried that method, but it keeps saying "startmovie only allowed during demo playback". How do I open .dem files?