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Game footage - best way to capture and to edit?
Thirith
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Last year I started recording the small Arma 3 coop sessions I've been running and editing them in Vegas Movie Studio. However, at some point I started realising that the footage I was recording with Nvidia ShadowPlay was no longer synchronised properly when imported into Movie Studio, which was something of a bummer. (Apparently the reason is that ShadowPlay records in Variable Frame Rate, which Movie Studio has some problems with.) So I tried capturing footage via OBS Studio, which gave me beautifully crisp 3440x1440 footage - but when I tried to edit this in Movie Studio, the video preview was so laggy that I simply couldn't edit, as I couldn't get the footage to play smoothly in the editing software.
Which leads me to my question: is there a way I can record footage (ideally at 3440x1440) that looks good, is smooth and works well with Vegas Movie Studio? Or, alternatively, is Movie Studio the problem and I should edit my footage using another program? For the record, the captured gameplay footage I've got is recorded at a bitrate of 50'000 Kbps, the format is mp4 and the encoder is Nvidia NVENC H.264, recommendations I got from YouTube.
P.S.: I did download DaVinci Resolve 16 and briefly tried that one. It plays the video footage well enough, but it also seems highly prone to crashing.
Which leads me to my question: is there a way I can record footage (ideally at 3440x1440) that looks good, is smooth and works well with Vegas Movie Studio? Or, alternatively, is Movie Studio the problem and I should edit my footage using another program? For the record, the captured gameplay footage I've got is recorded at a bitrate of 50'000 Kbps, the format is mp4 and the encoder is Nvidia NVENC H.264, recommendations I got from YouTube.
P.S.: I did download DaVinci Resolve 16 and briefly tried that one. It plays the video footage well enough, but it also seems highly prone to crashing.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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I don't know about handling footage that mega high def, I expect that takes a lot of oomph. But fwiw Hitfilm Express is a nice editor that has worked really well for me, and it is free.
Now, I knew that this could be a problem and I'm pretty sure I followed the instructions given that should have changed the project to a matching format... but somehow it didn't take. In the end, what I did was to start a new project and add the video footage, which set the project to the right format. Like this, the preview was smooth and I was able to edit without any problems. I could then just copy the intro bits from the original project into the new one.
@Red Raevyn: Since the problem was the project format not matching the footage, I imagine that using Handbrake to convert Shadowplay videos to Constant Frame Rate would also work. I'll probably see if OBS works fine going forward and if there's a noticeable hit to my frame rate; if so, I might just go back to using Shadowplay, though I like having more control over the resulting captures and their quality, which OBS offers.
Oh, and for completeness' sake, here's the video I did:
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods