Question / Help OBS with Sony Vegas

I'd like to start by thanking everyone involved with the devlopment of OBS, as it's a fantastic piece of software. I'm hoping to use the program for two main things: streaming online video and recording footage to edit.

So far I've done both. Streaming online is incredibly easy and fun to do, but I've ran into some problem with video capture. I've been using it to record footage of games which would then be edited in Sony Vegas. The problem is, Vegas doesn't play well with MP4 video.

The first problem was videos without any audio tracks. Using an Avi converter fixes this, but then the video quality drops for some reason in Vegas where it looks and sounds fine in most media players. The MP4 videos also take a very long time to render.

I was wondering if anyone has found a good way to get OBS-captured footage into Vegas, or if there are any planned future updates or plugins to make this easier.

The problem is CFR (constant frame rate). Many editing programs seem to need constant frame rate output, where real time recorded stuff is typically variable framerate depending on what you're doing. So what I'm going to have to do is add an option to convert the data from VFR to CFR in future versions to make it far more compatible with the editing programs.

Yeah, I'm having similar issues in Premiere. The audio is out of sync.

Ah, wait, is this MP4? MP4 files currently have an issue with sync I believe.

Yes. It works fine when you upload it to Youtube though.

Is it possible to save the video in OBS into another format?

FLV can be used as well.

Note that Vegas can't read FLV files. You will have to convert it to MP4 to get Vegas to open it.

I haven't tried it with the FLV output from OBS, but when I used Xsplit, I was able to convert my FLVs to MP4 with SUPER really fast by doing stream copy on both audio and video tracks. Basically it repackages the FLV into an MP4 container without re-encoding it, and it works pretty well. I had tried using other remuxers to do the same in the past and they didn't work as well (video and audio would be out of sync), but SUPER worked great.

Here's a workaround you can do that i've used for some time.

All you need is to get a video download addon/plugin for chrome/firefox, record on your twitch or own3d channel, go to that video and just download the raw file directly from the channel with the plugin.
Usually have quite good quality and reasonable filesize. Give it a shot :)

Thanks for all the responses. I hope it's not too much trouble to make it work better with Vegas in the future, but until then, the workaround suggested by Dajova works. This can also be done using YouTube for clips that have been saved to a file instead of uploaded to a streaming service.

I'm using the Download Helper plugin to download the video in 720p after uploading it to YouTube, and then I can edit in in Vegas with no problems. Thanks for the suggestions and thanks again for making an amazing program.

Sorry that you guys have to use workarounds

Actually I tried my own solution yesterday (repackaging the FLV into an MP4 using SUPER) and when I added it to Vegas, I only got an audio track, and no video track. Looks like the solution I used with Xsplit won't work in this case. I was going to try recording straight to MP4 with OBS later, but it sounds like there might be other problems...