Question / Help [SOLVED] Stuttering in Movie Studio 13 when using VCE

[Commander Matt]

EDIT: After some more Googling, I stumbled across a Reddit user having a separate, but similar, issue. One of the replies to his question said to "make sure you're [...] not throwing in b-frames" I set B-frames to 0, and now it works so smooth I can't believe it's not butter. (I couldn't resist, sorry.) Moderators/staff, feel free to delete this thread if you'd like, as it wasn't actually an OBS issue, just me being a derp.

As the title says, whenever I load a video recorded with VCE into Movie Studio 13, the preview stutters horrendously. I haven't tested with the x264 encoder, but I have tested with x264, and there isn't any stuttering. I have also tested with CBR and CQP, and both produce this stuttering in MS13. However, when watching the video in "Movies & TV" (default media player for Windows 10) there's no stuttering at all.
I can't find a CFR option, not sure if that's implemented yet.
Audio is fine, no quality loss/problems there. Recording format is MP4, and I have two audio tracks set up (so much easier to sync audio now, thanks! :D).
Here's the link to the log file OBS gave me:
https://gist.github.com/9069bda0813b40695a3f

Edit: Link to log file with both x264 and VCE recording (x264 is first, then VCE)
https://gist.github.com/b58156d233f8d7e54f1b

Not sure if it shows my system specs, but here they are:
CPU: AMD FX-6300
GPU: One R7 260x and one R9 380 (OBS seems to be using the 380 to record, usage goes up in MSI afterburner)
12 GB of RAM (identical sticks)

The video is being recorded to a separate hard drive that doesn't have anything running off it.

Thanks in advance!

P.S.
Wasn't sure if this is a bug report or me being very oblivious, so gave it the Question/Help prefix.

 

[Harold]

I wouldn't recommend recording directly to mp4 even with all the improvements for support for the format in multiplatform.
The container format itself is inherently not that great.

If you need multitrack audio, save to mkv instead.

 

[Commander Matt]

I wouldn't recommend recording directly to mp4 even with all the improvements for support for the format in multiplatform.
The container format itself is inherently not that great.

If you need multitrack audio, save to mkv instead.

MS13 doesn't support mkv.

 

[Harold]

MKV doesn't corrupt when the encoding process gets shut down in a non-graceful manner.

You could use ffmpeg to extract the individual tracks into container formats that MS12 does support though.

 

[Commander Matt]

MKV doesn't corrupt when the encoding process gets shut down in a non-graceful manner.

You could use ffmpeg to extract the individual tracks into container formats that MS12 does support though.

Still, not really a use for recording to mkv if I don't actually use it. Plus, doesn't solve my stuttering problem. :/

 

[Harold]

Try extracting the video with ffmpeg anyway and see if it stutters after ffmpeg has processed it.