The PldX h264 encoding GUI is very easy to use and fast to install. Download it here
Son of Dad has but together an awesome list of the best Team Fortress 2 movies of 2010. He has selected five movies from each month and then made a top 5 list for the whole year.
Lossless codecs are useful in video editing because it compresses the video file size, but still keeping the video quality.
Thanks to Cla for writing this tutorial!
Credit goes to skyride for writing this tutorial. Here's just a quick explanation on how to use different skyboxes within Team Fortress 2.
This tutorial will show you how to encode your video to h264 with meGUI.
wo0t wrote a tutorial on how to do sky replacements in Team Fortress 2, as seen in the Loaded frag video. Here's a quick tutorial describing how to replace the Well skybox.
This tutorial will show you how to use the z-depth footage attained from using in-game command "r_depthoverlay 1" in After Effects to generate depth of field with the Lens Blur effect. Watch the tutorial here.
Whether you want to create your own models to use in-game or wish to make animations using the in-game models, it will become essential to import the models from the game into 3DS Max. To accomplish this, you'll need a number of programs and plugins:
Virtual Dub is a very useful program, which is also free. With this program you can compile recorded images from games like Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Source to video files.
ffmpeg is a widely used video encoding tool and is also used in many video encoding programs. This tutorial will show you how to encode your movies with ffmpeg to h264. This is one of the best video compressions out right now and we at pldx.com highly recommend using this for your movies, because it will keep the movie quality high and file size small.
A short guide explaining how to encode your movie to a high quality h264 .mp4 movie.
