Is My Laggy Footage Ruined?

[nebneb]

Basically I recorded an entire gameplay sesh not realizing that somehow my obs settings were reset. My resolution and encoding I think got set to be too much for my poor little mactop and I only realized until after recording for 2 hours that the encoder overloaded. The file still saved fine and the audio is great but the video is literally like one frame per minute. My QuickTime-player and Adobe Premiere takes a while to play it so I thought maybe it’s possible to fix the recording somehow to make it less obnoxious and sacrifice the quality or something. But idk how this all works.

Do you think I can save it? Or do I have to go back and re-record gameplay? It’s a story game so I guess I’d just have to go back and retrace my steps. :/ Still annoying though

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

Do you think I can save it?

no, probably not... encoder overload means encoding didn't take place in real-time ... and those frames aren't 'saved' somewhere else... they are gone

Or do I have to go back and re-record gameplay?

yup

 

[Breakoutboy99]

If your encoding overloaded, then your footage is gone, like Lawrence_SoCal said. A way to not overload the encoder is to use a hardware encoder. You said you use a mac, right? I think there is an encoder in Settings/Output/Simple/Streaming/Video Encoder called "Hardware (Apple, H.264)". This works great! You also probably should change recording format to .mkv, and lower the video bitrate. There is an awesome website I use to get the right video bitrate here, just change the encoding format at the bottom to H.264 high.