STARTMOVIE 90
One of the advantages of VideoMach is the ability to do a 'motion blur' effect using the command startmovie 90 and turning the .bmp's into a .avi in VideoMach. This is not any harder than making a normal .avi from a .dem but takes more harddisk space and takes a few extra steps. The ideology behind startmovie 90 is that when your .bmp's are put together in a .avi, the clip is 1/3 the regular speed (30 / 90 = 1/3) and in Vegas, the clip is set to play at 3x the speed boosting it up to regular speed. What this does though is blend every 3 frames together into 1 to speed it up but this give a sort of blurring effect that makes everything look very smooth and fresh. Also, if you want to use slow motion in a video, you can just leave it as is and it will be very smooth and have 30 frames in each second instead of 10 frames in each second as if you took a normal 30 fps clip and slowed it down 1/3. The only thing I find annoying about this is that its not using Fraps, and when not using Fraps, it takes some time to get in-game sounds recorded and synced correctly. (Special Note: if you do not know the basics of using VideoMach, take a look at the 'Basics' page linked on the main page. I will not being going over step by step how to do everything in VideoMach).
1. Open your .dem in Counter-Strike and find the spot you want to start the clip 2. Type startmovie moviename 90 in console whereas moviename is the name you want to appear on your .bmp's. Things should be moving extremely slow now 3. Type in endmovie to end your clip. Close Counter-Strike 4. Open up VideoMach and load all your .bmp's 5. Leave everything at default and render your uncompressed .avi file 6. Open up Sony Vegas 7. File->Open load your clip onto the timeline 8. Right click on your clip and click 'Properties' 9. Set the Playback Rate to '3' and click 'Ok' 10. Notice how your clip loops 3x, hover your cursor on the right edge of your clip on the timeline untill the resize icon appears and drag it to the left untill your clip is only played one (on the top edge of the clip on the timeline, there will be little triangle cuttouts to indicate the start of a new loop, when dragging, it should snap to each one for easy resizing) 11. Once you have your clip resized and only playing once, you are ready to render. I suggest using a high quality render so that the motion blur is easy to see and appreciate
