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November 24, 2021
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Screen recording - How to speed up the process of converting videos in Handbrake

  • November 24, 2021
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Hi,

 

If anybody are doing an important amount of screenrecording they later edit in Premiere, you may know that to avoid issues you want to convert it to constant framerate, for which Handbrake seems to be the go to program.

 

I tend to record several short pieces of video, and converting them all is some extra work time I'd like to minimize as much as possible. Does anybody have any tips on things you can do yo make your life easier on this? I really dislike, specially when it's a patch I have to go and hurry up to record, having to always do the extra step of opening Handbrake, dragging and dropping, wait for conversion, and only until then, adding the file to my timeline.

 

Adobe really needs to look at this thing, as they claim Premiere supports variable framerate, but after a couple of big headaches with glitches in the exported file, their support team pretty much instructed me to always convert my screen recording files to constant framerate first. 

 

Thanks in advance!

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Community Expert
November 25, 2021
Averdahl
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2021

Adobe claims to support since 2018 though. But we all know that it does not.

 

New features summary for the January 2018 and October 2017 releases of Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

Inspiring
November 25, 2021

The attachment explains how to import multiple videos into HandBrake.

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Participant
November 25, 2021

Lovely! Thanks a lot.

Inspiring
November 25, 2021

I use Nvidia's Shadowplay for screen recording. I can drop and drag the files into Premeire Pro with no issues. 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 24, 2021

OBS can also do CFR exporting if you set it correctly.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Averdahl
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Community Expert
November 24, 2021
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Does anybody have any tips on things you can do yo make your life easier on this?


By @defaulttsmy9ux2wo4y

 

Use a screen recording application that record constant frame rate may be the best long term solution.

 

I use the free version of FlashBack Express to record screen recordings and set it to capture 30 fps and export 30 fps and they come in to Premiere Pro ready to use as is without converting them. MediaInfo report the files as Constant as well.

 

Link: FlashBack Express - the best free screen recorder (flashbackrecorder.com)

R Neil Haugen
Legend
November 24, 2021

Handbrake has a batch operation but it takes some futzing with it to figure out how to get it to actually do the whole batch.

 

ShutterEncoder is another option, and has a much more modern UI, so you might try that.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...