picklefriction
New Member
Hey guys! First time poster here. I've been having quite a bit of issues the past few weeks so this may be a pretty long post in order to cover as much as I can in the most detailed manner to the best of my ability. First off let me apologize in advanced. My skill level in video capture is incredibly amateur and I may not have all the correct terminology or know what all I may need to best describe everything I am having problems with, so please be patient with me. That being said I will try my best to be as detailed as I can.
I don't do any streaming at all. The only thing I use OBS for is recording footage of retro games using a startech usb 3.0 video capture device seen here -> https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/usb-3-0-video-capture-device-hdmi-dvi-vga~USB3HDCAP for my YouTube channel and audio for commentary that I will go over in more detail later. The newest games I record are PlayStation 2 and I never use screen capture for PC games or anything like that. I have been doing this for 8 months now with no issues until about 3 weeks ago. Everything I have been recording lately is having stuttering issues in the video feed (NOT just the recording) every 10 seconds on average that last about 2 - 3 seconds before correcting itself which makes for a terrible viewing experience. What's worse is that since this has started to happen, I can barely edit any of my videos. These files will crash Adobe Premiere when importing (unless left untouched for sometimes up to 10 - 15 minutes for an average recording of mine around 25 minutes and longer depending on the video length), cause playback and audio issues while in Adobe Premiere and even crash the program when trying to export a finished video. Even the 3:41 second video I made to show as an example in this post took about 5 minutes to import, crashed Premiere 2 times and took way too long to render.
Here is the example video I made accompanied with time stamps of the stutter. Sometimes it's hard to see if it happens to occur when the game is not in motion, but it is still there. It is easiest to see it when focusing more on background objects in motion such as the trees or the snowy mountains. Also, there is no audio because I disconnected everything else to make sure nothing was causing an interference.
https://youtu.be/5PH6I3CRGSY
0:18
0:28
0:38
0:48
1:00
1:23
1:42
1:52
2:03
2:13
2:23
2:51
3:02
3:12
3:22
3:32
As you can see, it's almost every 10 seconds on the nose. I have been working for several days straight trying every solution I could find from forum posts here to Adobe Premiere support and I even tried Xsplit which I am not a big fan of and the problem still remains. That tells me it's not just an OBS issue. However, the test footage I recorded using Xsplit was much better on Adobe Premiere's performance, although still not perfect. I still trust that I am going to get the best help here and I really like OBS. I even did a complete wipe and reinstall of windows and everything. Is there some kind of hardware issue that could be causing this?
Now for the audio. Not to get too detailed about the audio because I know even less about that and I'm not even sure this would be part of the issue in anyway. However, there are still a couple things worth noting. My sound equipment set up was done by a friend and his expertise is sound. There was recently a change made in our equipment after we had an audio compressor blow. We saw it as an opportunity to make a few upgrades and the problem started happening after that. Initially it was just replacing the compressor with another of the exact same model and that was when I first started having Adobe Premiere issues, although I hadn't yet noticed the stutter until later after we added a Xstatic Pro Lighting X-PC10USB Circuit Breaker and a Mbox Mini Audio Interface. I have tested everything without this hooked up like I mentioned and the problem is still there. I just felt like it was important to note when the problem started happening, just in case there is any correlation.
Fortunately I am a very prepared person and I have a backlog of videos for my channel ready to last me until mid March. So I have plenty of time to work on it, but I also tend to go into panic mode when these types of things happen. I try my best to uphold a schedule and quality that I set for myself. So thank you all ahead of time for the help and I am really hoping I can crack this because it is stressing me out like crazy. Let me know if there is any more information needed and I will try my best to get that for you. I tend to stay pretty busy so I might not get back immediately, but I will try my best. Thanks!
Here are my specs.
Here is the last log.
https://obsproject.com/logs/RRoz8dr9VdwYtrE5
I don't do any streaming at all. The only thing I use OBS for is recording footage of retro games using a startech usb 3.0 video capture device seen here -> https://www.startech.com/AV/Converters/Video/usb-3-0-video-capture-device-hdmi-dvi-vga~USB3HDCAP for my YouTube channel and audio for commentary that I will go over in more detail later. The newest games I record are PlayStation 2 and I never use screen capture for PC games or anything like that. I have been doing this for 8 months now with no issues until about 3 weeks ago. Everything I have been recording lately is having stuttering issues in the video feed (NOT just the recording) every 10 seconds on average that last about 2 - 3 seconds before correcting itself which makes for a terrible viewing experience. What's worse is that since this has started to happen, I can barely edit any of my videos. These files will crash Adobe Premiere when importing (unless left untouched for sometimes up to 10 - 15 minutes for an average recording of mine around 25 minutes and longer depending on the video length), cause playback and audio issues while in Adobe Premiere and even crash the program when trying to export a finished video. Even the 3:41 second video I made to show as an example in this post took about 5 minutes to import, crashed Premiere 2 times and took way too long to render.
Here is the example video I made accompanied with time stamps of the stutter. Sometimes it's hard to see if it happens to occur when the game is not in motion, but it is still there. It is easiest to see it when focusing more on background objects in motion such as the trees or the snowy mountains. Also, there is no audio because I disconnected everything else to make sure nothing was causing an interference.
https://youtu.be/5PH6I3CRGSY
0:18
0:28
0:38
0:48
1:00
1:23
1:42
1:52
2:03
2:13
2:23
2:51
3:02
3:12
3:22
3:32
As you can see, it's almost every 10 seconds on the nose. I have been working for several days straight trying every solution I could find from forum posts here to Adobe Premiere support and I even tried Xsplit which I am not a big fan of and the problem still remains. That tells me it's not just an OBS issue. However, the test footage I recorded using Xsplit was much better on Adobe Premiere's performance, although still not perfect. I still trust that I am going to get the best help here and I really like OBS. I even did a complete wipe and reinstall of windows and everything. Is there some kind of hardware issue that could be causing this?
Now for the audio. Not to get too detailed about the audio because I know even less about that and I'm not even sure this would be part of the issue in anyway. However, there are still a couple things worth noting. My sound equipment set up was done by a friend and his expertise is sound. There was recently a change made in our equipment after we had an audio compressor blow. We saw it as an opportunity to make a few upgrades and the problem started happening after that. Initially it was just replacing the compressor with another of the exact same model and that was when I first started having Adobe Premiere issues, although I hadn't yet noticed the stutter until later after we added a Xstatic Pro Lighting X-PC10USB Circuit Breaker and a Mbox Mini Audio Interface. I have tested everything without this hooked up like I mentioned and the problem is still there. I just felt like it was important to note when the problem started happening, just in case there is any correlation.
Fortunately I am a very prepared person and I have a backlog of videos for my channel ready to last me until mid March. So I have plenty of time to work on it, but I also tend to go into panic mode when these types of things happen. I try my best to uphold a schedule and quality that I set for myself. So thank you all ahead of time for the help and I am really hoping I can crack this because it is stressing me out like crazy. Let me know if there is any more information needed and I will try my best to get that for you. I tend to stay pretty busy so I might not get back immediately, but I will try my best. Thanks!
Here are my specs.
Here is the last log.
https://obsproject.com/logs/RRoz8dr9VdwYtrE5
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