way to record gameplay on left 4 dead?

my friend needs help slapping a video on youtube, and we play left 4 dead together and he wants to put a video up.

i would like to do this without using a video recorder, just something on my pc to record the gameplay, does anyone know of any?

he used a console command "record " and opened it by saying "showdemo newguy" all in the console, but he says his not sure how to make it into a video file

This guide is applicable to pretty much every Source-engine powered game, including Left4Dead. There should be a means of taking a recorded .dem file and exporting it as AVI. The benefit in doing that is having the game record what's going on will barely disrupt your frame-rate, versus say, having FRAPS running and crunching at your harddrive.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Demo_Recording_Tools

FRAPS is a good alternativegamerguy845

Xfire does video capture.. you may have heard of it.

This guide is applicable to pretty much every Source-engine powered game, including Left4Dead. There should be a means of taking a recorded .dem file and exporting it as AVI. The benefit in doing that is having the game record what's going on will barely disrupt your frame-rate, versus say, having FRAPS running and crunching at your harddrive.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Demo_Recording_Tools

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[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]FRAPS is a good alternativename294

[QUOTE="name294"][QUOTE="gamerguy845"]FRAPS is a good alternativegamerguy845

[QUOTE="gamerguy845"][QUOTE="name294"] alright, fraps it is then, grr i hate buying software... can that convert it to a .avi or something that is youtube acceptable?biltros

The record feature in Source games records gameplay for you to replay later. Then you can control the camera and make movies.

[QUOTE="gamerguy845"]FRAPS is a good alternativename294

There's no need for a third party program with Source games as Source has it all built-in.

You can record a 1hr+ match for only around 128mb and you can play it back later for the actual recording and you can move your camera around for better view then you have before, Plus you can convert the video in Source to AVI (the avi will be big in size depending on your video).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzqgaZwJVY, this tutorial is just a simple one, Google more if you want a more advanced one.

Use something like VDub; Vegas; Etc. for a Video Editing software.

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Here's a short video I made in TF2 using the Source Recorder [Link], the quality isn't the best for this video but that's just because I took the fast easy way out, as this is just a short showcase.

Source recorder also works in Muitlplayer ands its great if you want that Epic Sceenshot but not go out of your way just to get it when playing a match.

If you don't have a Video Editing Software I recommend VirtualDub it might not be as good as the Priced editors but Vdub does its job well for open source Software (Free).

If I did the proper Resizing; Compression the video would come out Allot better, I however was lazy and let Photobucket do it (Fast; Easy & Crappy)...:P