Question / Help How to use OBS to convert video files?

[MichaelD]

Good morning everyone,

I'm new to OBS and this forum, so please forgive me if I didn't do proper research - I couldn't find an answer to my question...

I am using OBS to convert variable framerate smartphone video files to constant frame rate clips, so that they are easier to work with.
I have done that by recording the media players window, which is quite a workaround, then I tried recording a media source, which is quite a nice feature, but still quite cumbersome.
Is there any way to a) do some "file batching" to process several video files in a row? and b) tell OBS to start recording the very moment the video starts replaying - otherwise I will have to start record / stop record, take care of not missing out the first seconds of the video nor to add to much black screen material?

It would be fantastic if I were able to hand over some video clips to OBS, let it do its work and receive just identical copies of the original files in 30fps.

Thank you for your insights into this issue, for OBS and the huge amount of information in this forum!

Michael

 

[koala]

OBS is not the appropriate tool for postprocessing existing video files.
You want to recode video, not record/stream it.
Take a look at Handbrake, if you just want to recompress/recode existing videos: https://handbrake.fr/
If you want to do simple postprocessing tasks in addition like simple cutting, take a look at Avidemux: http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
If you are the command-line guy and want full control over every aspect of recoding, look at ffmpeg (there are Windows builds as well): https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
All are able to batch-process videos.

In my opinion, Handbrake is what comes as close as possible to "ffmpeg with GUI".