Editing assistance please - OBS Stream cutting

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Hi there,

As I try and grown my online presence, I need to start making some edits to my online videos.
I currently stream using Streamlabs OBS which outs to an mp4 file type.

It has multiple settings for me to record my streams, 'same as stream', 'high quality', 'medium file size', 'lossless' etc..

I've tried to edit and clip some of my videos to create compilations of some of the finer stream moments, but I've ran into some issues. From what I've read it's related to either the variable bit rate or the h.264 codec that's causing my saved clips (from the main video file) to have video and sound out of sync.
Even some of the clips, have audio starting first - then the video shows up later, which seems to be related to the keyframes, from what I gather.

For anyone who had experience cutting up videos, is there something I'm doing wrong? Should I be recording in a certain format to make the cutting easier?

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What I've been doing:
- Downloading my autosaved stream from Twitch to local video file (mp4)
- Using Lossless Cut app, to open up the video and clip out certain sections.

- Dragged all clips into Adobe Premier CC (7 day free trial) and attempted to play them back together and save output.

- Playback of these clips - one after another has black blank screens where audio starts playing before the next video scene starts.

Are there tools I need to be using to make these videos better to edit/cut up, before I drag them into adobe to join them up and add audio overlay?

Thanks!
 
Hi there,

Possibly too late a reply...

So using this Lossless Cut app is probably your problem. You don't need it if you have Premiere, as that's exactly what Premiere is for - cutting things up.

Assuming the autosaved stream from Twitch is all good and in sync, you should use Media Encoder (which is part of the package alongside Premiere) to re-transcode the file for editing. Dump them in there and output them to MXF files at a 'lossless' codec, such as DNxHD MXF (use the 'Match Source - Rewrap' setting to begin with)

Then drag these files into Premiere and cut it up as you like.
 
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