Video Editing Software

[ZeroG]

I do quite a lot of game testing and part of that is grabbing videos of in-game bugs/issues etc. Previously I had an Nvidia 1080 Ti that I used their software to record video, especially the option to grab the last x minutes came in very useful. I would load these up in Clipchamp, do some simple cutting/joining clips etc and export. Everything would be fine.

Now I've upgraded to a Radeon 6950XT so use AMDs software which offers pretty much the same capability. However since moving to AMD importing the video into Clipchamp takes far long, sometimes up to 10 minutes, I reduced the time captured from 5 minutes to 3 minutes but this hasn't really sped up the process any. Also exporting the video to mp4 takes longer as well.

Doing a bit of research it seems the issue is recording in AMD is using HEVC, which apparently gives smaller video sizes which is useful, but this processing time is a pain. I tried changing to AVC instead and the video pretty much instantly loads into Clipchamp but when I try to export it the video is corrupted, it appears green in the preview and playing it in VLC the video is just black with sound. Is there anyway to fix this? Failing that is there similar software out there for doing the same thing? I like Clipchamp for it's simplicity, all I really need to do is cut up clips, maybe join some together and have the result quality be pretty decent and smallish file size.

Someone suggest Handbrake. I installed it and got completely lost (plus there was no preview screen).

 

[PaulM]

Davinci Resolve is a step up from Clipchamp, perhaps a little overkill for what you want but it's very easy/intuitive for basic cutting/joining of clips. The free version only supports exporting renders via the CPU but if you're only using small clips it won't make much difference anyway, might be worth a look

 

[ZeroG]

Davinci Resolve is a step up from Clipchamp, perhaps a little overkill for what you want but it's very easy/intuitive to basic cutting.joining of clips. The free version only supports exporting renders via the CPU but if you're only using small clips it won't make much difference anyway, might be worth a look

When I had the videos at 5 minutes it was about 1.5GB per file. When I set it to 3 minutes it's about 650-700MB so not large files.

 

[PaulM]

When I had the videos at 5 minutes it was about 1.5GB per file. When I set it to 3 minutes it's about 650-700MB so not large files.

If it's just basic cutting/joining another option is Avidemux which is much smaller than Davinci but it's a little temperamental depending on the source codec. Might be worth trying that first

 

[Orcvader]

When I had the videos at 5 minutes it was about 1.5GB per file. When I set it to 3 minutes it's about 650-700MB so not large files.

Make sure to cap the bitrate when exporting, the default is too high.

The free version only supports exporting renders via the CPU but if you're only using small clips it won't make much difference anyway, might be worth a look

Not sure if it's the same for AMD cards but the free version allows Nvidia encoders when exporting as h265/hevc.

 

[mrk]

Yes the free version can use CUDA and I use it a lot. Works very well and is excellent. I then transcode the H265 file to AV1 which then shaves another 30-5% off the filesize depending on resolution/CQ setting using Handbrake. Handbrake uses the GPU's built in AV1 encoder whether you have an AMD 7000 or NV 40 series, so encoding speed is very fast and efficient.

 

[PaulM]

Oh nice, I somehow didn't realise you could use CUDA with h265 in the free version. I've spent the last year CPU exporting at h264 while my GPU sad mostly idle

 

[Raumarik]

Davinci resolve is pretty easy to pick up the basics on, there are tons of tutorials now on youtube too as a lot of people have discovered it's free in recent years and that it's actually very capable and stable.

 

[doodah]

Davinci Resolve for the win. Been using it for months now to do videos for work and really rate it, plus the free version does 90% of the paid version. And the paid version is a one off fee, none of this subscription BS. Coupled with the plethora of YouTube guides, really easy to pick up the basics.