OBS Encoders issues with footage in FCPX and Lumafusion Help and advice please

[Paul Apps Fine Art]

Hi everyone, I am fairly new to OBS and certainly this forum. I have been recording stream footage for later use as an edit in FCPX 10.5.4 There were no issues the streaming feed was the selected encoder.

I then realized that the output was lowered at 720p So researching I changed a number of settings in the OBS output tab. KPS settings and encoder. I used x264, the footage was captured, etc, when bought into FCPX I could see the footage, no issue there. Until I tried to do anything with it. I could not transcode at all. Nor easily scrub without every move seeing the revolving colour parasol for ages, every move was the same and frustrating, I ended up having to crash out each time.
Equally, it would not render or export.
I went back into OBS and test footage in several other settings Apple Hard and software 264. The result was the same. It seems that something in OBS or in the encoders provided is not compatible with FCPX.

I loaded the same footage into Lumafusion 3.0. Although I could see and edit footage, The scrubbing function was not available to edit with. I test the export and it worked. My workaround on this occasion was to export the whole raw footage in the Lumafusion timeline as H264. No problem with that, then to bring that exported film as an H264 Mp4 back into FCPX. At this point, it seems to work as normal, so fingers crossed.
The frustration is that any of this has to happen in this way. I have invested a lot to stream, and record from OBS to my FCPX to edit videos as a workflow in the future.

I pray that you better-informed people out there can help and shed light upon and provide an idiot-proof way to explain and overcome the problems. I thank you all in advance,
Best wishes
Paul

 

[moonpost]

Even though FCPX is a wonder and can usually handle just about anything you throw at it, you will be best served by transcoding your footage to ProRes instead of trying to brute-force it to process highly compressed footage. You can do this in FCPX upon import. This will make a large file-size less-compressed ProRes file that will edit very smoothly. To keep your hard drive from filling up, when you are done with the edit you can use FCPX to remove the rendered ProRes file and free up your hard drive space. Any files generated from within FCPX can easily be re-generated as needed in the future if the originals are still in place.

 

[Paul Apps Fine Art]

Hi Moonost thanks for getting back so fast.

I tried to do as you stated looked at a small sile to import. I could see only one option to transcode the media as ProRes proxy only.
it did import but refused to do any transcoding
tired it on x264, Apple VT H264 software and Hardware encoder

Cannot see any other options other than transcode proxy ProRes or H264 neither seem to work
cheers Paul