Question / Help OBS videos crashing video editor

[karneekarnay]

Hi Guys,

I've been using OBS for a while and I'm not sure if it's Windows 10, Premier Pro 2015, or others, but for some reason I'm struggling to create videos using OBS. The moment I try to edit videos my video editor just crashes. Not responding error appears and I'm stuck.

- I setup OBS to record and create mp4 files.
- My recordings are usually really long. 4 Hours at a time.
- I don't split the files.
- My video files are above 4gb.

The obvious problem for me is that I'm not splitting my files. I am doing that now, but I still get crashes even when I am editing a file that is only 10 mins long. Is there something gone in here or is this all Premier Pro?

- Any software available that will spit large video files to smaller ones?
- Will that help?
- Any free video editing software you guys can recommend?

 

[FerretBomb]

Do you have CFR (not CBR) enabled? Some NLE suites like Vegas and I believe Premiere tend to throw a temper tantrum if it isn't.

You can also try remuxing the video to another format; it's STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you record to FLV, and remux to MP4 if you need it, as MP4 is a very fragile container format and can corrupt extremely easily during recording, potentially causing non-error-correcting software to hang or crash when trying to parse the file.

 

[Boildown]

Make a five minute recording using OBS of high action content, where afterwards you test and confirm that the problem occurs for that recording.

Then post the OBS log file from that recording.

Then post the media info text from the MP4 or FLV you created with OBS. Or just upload the file to a file sharing site for us to download.

The usual problems are: Not using Constant Frame Rate, or using MP3 audio instead of AAC. Sometimes having a high number of duplicated frames while recording can mess it up in the video editor later, I think if it duplicates a key frame. Also, using very high bitrates makes Vegas slow, not sure about Premiere.

When I made this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WURh4w5vjhk I had to put 100 clips into the same video, and sometimes the source video file was up to 8 hours long. That was obscenely slow in Vegas. Instead I learned to cut just the part I wanted (plus a little extra before and after) using avidemux. That made Vegas behave far better. Avidemux can losslessly cut on keyframes, so no quality was lost doing it.