Editing Demo’s before Submission?

[TJ1adam12]

Hello all,
I was just curious if it is possible to edit a completed demo before submitting?

Often in the course of my demo’s I’m finding that there is one or more rounds that show nothing conclusive before the offence finally happens again. My thought was it would be nice to “trim the fat” so to speak in an effort to minimize the amount of time the anti-cheat staff must review my demos.

I.E., I could cut the first two rounds that nothing occurred and only submit the couple of rounds that offences were taking place.

T.J.

[ooojerry]

Do not under any circumstance edit a demo!!! If it is a long demo, use the (Shift+F2) trick and look at about what time the hacking becomes blatant.

[TJ1adam12]

Thanks for the tip

I wasn’t aware of the; shift+F2 option. However, I imagine that will assist in showing me the time or something to that effect not shorten the demo.

What is the basic rule of thumb, approximately 3 full rounds are within the requested file size for submission?

I have downloaded Winrar as a contingency plan for longer demos, but have yet to figure out how to use it properly lol……

[ooojerry]

If its large compress it.

[TJ1adam12]

Originally Posted by ooojerry

If its large compress it.

I hate to admit it but I will need my son to teach me how to compress. I have little experience when it comes to video editing and sending

Appreciate you assistance

[cpnichol]

There's a few things to do make sure your demos have a high "proof to Mb" ratio.

Most of it is done when you record the demos. I start the demo slightly after the start of the round, missing out the buying. I record until the player dies or until 2 or 3 rounds (about 5mins) have passed, if the demo shows nothing I record over it the next round. Really long demos, 10mins or more tend to have big gaps with nothing happening and they are unwieldy to review.

Watch the demos yourself. A lot of the time this will not be necessary if it is a blatant cheat. Just type playdemo demoname in console and it'll playback, shift and F2 is really useful for slowing things down and speeding things up. If you think the player is wallhacking try r_drawothermodels 2 in console, this allows you to see movable objects in wireframe, through walls.

The website allows a demo to be upto 15Mb, if your demo is larger or you have more than one demo to submit then use winzip or winrar to compress the large file or several demos into one file.

I use winrar. To compress a file all I have to do is select the file or files, right click, select "add to archive", click ok and it's done.

[TJ1adam12]

Originally Posted by cpnichol

if the demo shows nothing I record over it the next round.

How do I record over it? Do I just retype "record name" or do I need to stopdemo?

[cpnichol]

I just type stop, then record name, where name is the same one you used to record the demo that showed nothing.