Quick Start
Can't wait? Before you start
You need to do some work outside QVM if you want to get your movie. First of all, you need to create screenshots sequence from a Quake demo file. You don't know how to generate screenshot sequence? Get here for details.
Also get a decent AVI player and video codecs, Windows Media Player is a good start.
Ready?
Now you have your screenshots.
  1. Start QVM
    2.  
  2. File -> New
      3. This creates an empty project by adding Scene 1 in the list
  3. Click the Wizard button
      4. Select "Import images files sequence" option. Next step.
      Browse to select the folder where are all the screenshots. Usually you get them in the Baseq3/screenshots folder below your main Quake installation folder. Next step.
      Terminate.
  4. Scan Frames
      5. You must validate all screenshots. Click the Scan Frames button, it may take a while depending on how many screenshots are available. After that, Start Frame and Stop Frame boxes show the screenshot frames range.
  5. Preview
      6. Click the Play button to view the screenshots in almost real-time mode.
  6. Adjust start and end
      7. You can adjust start and end frame by clicking on Mark Start and Mark End buttons when the preview is stopped on a given frame.
  7. Apply changes
      8. Click the Apply button to save current scene parameters
  8. Movie -> Settings
      9. Select an output filename.
      Change frame rate to the number of screenshots per second you chose in Quake (same value as the one you gave to cl_avidemo).
  9. Movie -> Generate
      10. Start generation process
  10. Choose compression
      11. A codec list popup window appears. Select a decent one (Microsoft Video 1,2,3 or DivX 5). Other codecs may simply fail.
      After selection, generation process is underway. This can be very long.
  11. Movie -> View Final
      12. View the final result if you have an AVI player (Windows Media Player is the recommended one).
  12. Done :)
      13. You can save your project. Anyway the Movie.avi file is present and valid.


And now?

Now it's time to read the documentation to know how to make a more complex movie. Add sound, more scenes, slow motion, titles, transitions between scenes and the like.

  
 
 

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