I basically stopped playing tf2 for a while and only surfed on CS:S, where I transitioned into a really low sensitivity and began using +left/+right to be as smooth as possible while still being able to turn easily.

Since I've started playing tf2 again, I noticed that I use these two commands while dming too. I was wondering if this is frowned upon or against the rules of any leagues, and if not if anyone else uses these commands in regular gameplay. There seem to be some clear benefits from them, particularly if you use a low sensitivity.

No, there is no "conversion" of framerates during playback, it only converts during the render. I've heard from several people that Premiere Pro is very smooth/quick with playback if you're able to use the GPU Acceleration feature, which is not supported by most older gpu's. My GPU doesn't support it so the playback is terrible for large files, and I've found that Sony Vegas is the way to go for cheaper/older builds. If you're not willing to switch over programs you may want to try encoding the files individually first, and then doing your editing afterwards. This will reduce quality a little and take some extra time but the file sizes will be much smaller for the program to work with.

Why not put $400 towards something more interesting wtf

Looks like reemix will be helping me out, thanks for the suggestions.

Oh, well thanks for the offer. If whoever ends up animating this can't create the model then I'll be sure to ask you.

Do you by any chance have a portal model (the blue one)? The scene is native to tf2 aside from the portal.

As some of you might know I'm working on one more jump movie and I'm planning to use some 3D animation in it. Instead of trying to learn Source Film Maker/3Ds Max myself, I'd rather work with someone who is already experienced with animation to produce a better finished product. I need two short scenes to be made, each approximately 15 seconds in length. They aren't particularly complicated but I want them done well. I can't offer payment but you'll of course receive full credit in the movie (I guess I could pay in hats or something if you wanted).

If you/someone you know might be interested add me on steam, or pm me on youtube where I can give more details. Thanks :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/J0rD4n9001?feature=mhee

http://steamcommunity.com/id/dellort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGWlf_8V1M

Just like bhop in CS capping your framerate at certain values can give you a big advantage when rocket jumping.

Yes, no matter how you record the demos they can potentially break from future updates. Honestly most of the issues you listed could happen with youtube videos too, videos will be removed, people might link stupid youtube videos in their profiles as jokes, etc.

I don't know much about web design but if that was an issue couldn't you just make a section to put links to demos in? (Same idea as linking youtube vids but instead you'd just link a mediafire/dropbox/etc. which contains the demo).

edit: oops didn't realize this was mentioned already

You used to be able to set m_yaw really high and lower your sensitivity accordingly, so you could still aim fine but when you used the targe you were able to turn easily.

I would love to listen to Tay Zonday's comms in mumble holy shit

If you have Counter-Strike Source it's much more convenient to start on imo. There are more easy maps and you don't have to mess with sourcemod to adjust air accel. Once you learn the basics you can transfer between the two games fairly easily too.

As for easy maps, surf_grassland, surf_utopia_njv, surf_ny__platinum_b5, surf_tensile_njv, surf_waterworks, surf_beginner, surf_ing, surf_derpis, are all pretty easy. Again, if you have access to CS:S I can give you a much bigger list.

If that's the case then you should just drop esea tf2 as a league altogether. As long as the videos were produced with a decent standard of quality (meaning decap as the editor since he doesn't throw in bullshit effects) then I'm almost 100% sure that they would support it and upload it to the channel. Also I think the CS following would be more supportive than you think, a lot of them do hold interest in tf2, it's just that all they get exposed to is spy pub tutorials and such on youtube and assume all of tf2 is like that.