Video codec for fast scrubing in Adobe Premier

[Aiden Wilkins]

Does anyone know of fast codecs that allow easy scrubing in premier on processors like a AMD Phemon II x6 processor

[emosun]

do you care about quality?

becuase the scrubbing speed with be down to your pc's speed and not really the codec

[m9x3mos]

5 minutes ago, Aiden Wilkins said:

Does anyone know of fast codecs that allow easy scrubing in premier on processors like a AMD Phemon II x6 processor

I have luck and I think Linus uses cineform. Have you tried that one?

[Aiden Wilkins]

no i dont care about quality as long as its not so pixilated i cant figure out what is on screen

[Aiden Wilkins]

what is cineform? it comes as a place not in toronto canada

[Aiden Wilkins]

correction

it comes up as a place in toronto canada

[emosun]

Just now, Aiden Wilkins said:

no i dont care about quality as long as its not so pixilated i cant figure out what is on screen

then just render your project in a lower resolution and bitrate so the machine can scrub through it faster

you basically should be doing everything with h264 anyway so just bring the file down to something the machine can work with , and or , set the preview quality in premiere lower.

[Aiden Wilkins]

ok

[m9x3mos]

4 minutes ago, Aiden Wilkins said:

what is cineform? it comes as a place not in toronto canada

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CineForm

[Aiden Wilkins]

So what format of h.264 or x264 should i use?

[Aiden Wilkins]

Because i know for a fact that mp4 is hard for a cpu to decode

[Mr Technician]

h.264 is bad for scrub performance. Cineform should perform much better.

[Aiden Wilkins]

ok how do i use that with obs, or do i have to convert it

[mariushm]

MP4 is a CONTAINER, it contains video and audio and other crap. Other container examples: AVI , MKV, TS (short for transport stream) etc

 

x264 is a software codec , a compressor, which creates video files encoded in the H264 standard. MPEG-2 , VC1, VP9 are other video codecs, compression standards.

 

MP4 can contain videos encoded using the H264 standard or other standards...  so the statement  "MP4 is hard for cpu to decode" is silly, because it really depends on what's inside the MP4 container and how well the software handles what's inside.

A movie player like Media Player Classic Home Cinema can open MP4 files and decode the video using the video card, so your CPU would be practically unused. It's Premiere's fault that it's not capable of handling MP4 files well.

 

You can use various transcoding tools to convert your recordings to other formats, using various codecs.

See for example Adobe Media Encoder CC : https://www.adobe.com/products/media-encoder.html

 

Here's a random search result for using Adobe Media Encoder with Cineform codec

 

 

[Eleazar Space-Propulsion]

For the Fastest codec - looks things have change a little now.

check out this codec called "daniel 2 codec" - it is GPU based