Best temporary format video for open fun scripted on laptop with low spec

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I need some advice on what the best format/code/etc. to export videos from my iMac Pro in Premiere pro, or Adobe media encoder, so I can work on them on my Windows Laptop (not very powerful), so that Open fun scripted does not stutter.

My laptop only has 520 gb of hard drive space, so would want to take it easy on file size. As this will just be a temporary working copy, I don’t need the best quality.

Any suggestions on the topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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If your graphics card/chip (GPU) in your Windows laptop support hardware decoding h265 is good if you export high resolution (4K and up). h264 doesn’t require any additional hardware and is completely bound to what your CPU can handle. h264 is suitable to use for 4K, HD and SD resolutions.

When it comes to scripting the most important part is to reencode the video in 2K at most and use i-frames. You need to investigate how to do the same in Premiere Pro or Adobe media encoder. This is to remove the burden of decoding the video when stepping frame by frame in OFS/JFS. Even with a powerfull PC you will feel the lag when stepping frame by frame if you don’t re-encode your video properly. (number one root cause when people complain about performance in OFS/JFS)

You find information on how to reencode your videos in the how-to section, mainly in how to script posts. Software available here can do it as well as using ffmpeg. All is for PC though.

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Needs to be like a 480p video, x264, and *convert to iframes. It can be done by using the tool FunExpander.

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Also you probably want to uncheck 30fps unless you want to take a video from 60fps to 30fps.*

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Most importantly, make sure your frame rate is the same as the original source video. You can export a video in 360p turd quality resolution and use that if you have to, but DO NOT MESS WITH THE FRAME RATE.

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Good advice :slight_smile:

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You want those. It’s the P and B frames you want to get rid of.

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Convert to 30fps should come with a warning lol. I wouldn’t mess with the FPS with FunExpander. I recommend Handbrake (shows the fps of the source and you can half from that) if you really want to half the fps of the video or just don’t change it at all and just force it with FPS Override in OFS. It messes things up a lot if the source is not exactly 60/120fps.

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Thanks for all the help and suggestion so far…

Loosing my mind here… Trying to just get to the stage with Open expander to load the video but it keeps on saying "the system cannon find the files specified (cmdFFmpeg_click)…
So I spend another half an hour trying to understand how and where to install ffmpeg… as i assume that’s missing… but just not getting anywhere…

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Ok… found the solution for working with Adobe Media encoder on my iMac Pro (much more powerful then my windows laptop).

Seems to be the option where it says keyframe distance. By default this was set to 72. Reducing it to 1 and then exporting seems to do the trick. Tried this for H264 4K file and works perfect.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with all the comments.

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Good point. You’ll get a lot of frame dupe if you turn a 24fps video to 30fps.

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