Question / Help Recorded footage cannot be used? Need advice! Please Help!

[Chryssie]

I've been using OBS for over a year now due to it's High Quality recording capabilities as well as its ability to record at a CBR (Constant Bit Rate), which a lot of other software cannot do. This is essential to me as I record a lot of gaming content and if the frame rate or bit rate were variable, my audio and footage would not be in sync when I add them to a Premier Pro (2020) project.

I've had the same settings for about 10 months now, and have never changed them. I've had no reason to, yet strangely for some reason whenever I try to import any footage I have recorded at a length greater than roughly 10 minutes, Premier will crash. It cannot upload that piece of recently recorded footage. This is not a problem with Premier, as I can upload older footage just fine.

I further tested this in Corel Videostudio Pro x9. Whenever I try to re-render the footage in there it gets a random percentage through the footage before coming up with an error saying "Frame {frame number} is unreadable".

The only settings I have changed recently were some audio settings, which have since been defaulted again as I had recently bought a new headset. One where I have to record desktop audio through a piece of Razer software or something (I dont know a lot about audio to be honest). So thinking that might be the problem, I removed all audio recording functions and recorded a video of 20 minutes length completely sound free. However I still cannot import the footage. the same issue occurs.

I don't know enough about the software or what the problem is to find a solution. Can anybody assist me please? Thank you

LOG FILE: https://obsproject.com/logs/zheKKEAgFt5-n2fM

 

[FerretBomb]

Never, EVER record to MP4. For ANY reason. If there is ANY problem at any point in the recording process before finalization is complete, the file will become corrupted and unusable. Even if it goes well, Premiere (Pro) and many other NLE video editors will have significant problems with any file recorded directly to MP4 with OBS.
According to your log, you're recording to MP4. Don't.

Record to MKV if you do multi-track audio, and use the 'remux' option from the OBS 'File' menu to convert from MKV to MP4 if needed. Premiere should work fine with remuxed mp4s.

Also, it's strongly advised NOT to record using CBR with a fixed bitrate value; for recording, use CQP or CRF. They have quality-based targeting controls, meaning that OBS will use as much bitrate as needed to maintain a given visual quality level. Normally you'll want to use somewhere between 16 and 22 for visually-lossless video; lower is better quality, but larger filesizes. Anything under 12 should not be used unless you have a very specific need, and 0 should never be used at all (as it's uncompressed video, which is ginormous).