Last seen: Aug 17, 2026
Judge moving footage, not only still frames. Water, smoke, confetti, foliage and pans reveal bitrate limits quickly.
I am keeping the original H.264 and using proxies. That solved the actual editing problem without another full-resolution transcode set.
Keyframes are roughly every two seconds. A proxy with much shorter GOP/intraframe-friendly settings feels almost instant.
Between convenient viewing copies, H.264 wins compatibility and HEVC wins storage efficiency. For future editing, an acquisition/intermediate strategy...
I moved the file from an external HDD to the internal SSD. Random seeking improved a little, but the delay did not disappear, so storage was only part...
Storage latency matters too when several streams are active. Test one clip on a local SSD before blaming decoding alone.
I was compensating with random contrast and saturation. I will reset that and test a proper HDR-to-SDR transform first.
The fact that the corruption repeats at the same frames makes this much easier. I will preserve that short range as my driver/encoder test case.
Inspect the source for VFR and test a short constant-frame-rate conversion. Check sync at the beginning, middle and end; do not repair gradual drift w...
If the issue follows one specific source clip, transcode only that clip to a stable intermediate as a diagnostic. Converting the whole project would h...
Built-in proxy systems are safer than renaming files by hand because the software tracks which file is editorial and which is the source master.