Tips Editing OBS MP4 Files in Sony Movie Studio

Summary: This guide shows how to convert OBS MP4 files to Sony Movie Studio, so you can edit OBS MP4 files in Sony Movie Studio smoothly.

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As we all know, Open Broadcaster Software is a great platform to broadcast live streams, so a lot of people have an idea of recording some game or match footages to their computer as MP4 files. After that they can do some changes to make them perfect through some professional editing software, such as Sony Movie Studio. But it seems that Sony Movie Studio and MP4 files are not friendly to each other, this situation generally brings us bad emotion, right?

When you try to import OBS files to Sony Movie Studio for editing, you will get an error message saying it couldn't initialize it or something similar to that. As you know Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) generally can record MP4 Videos (FLV is another option). Although Sony Movie Studio says it supports MP4, but it only prefers MPEG-4 codec instead of others. In order to successfully import and open OBS MP4 in Sony Movie Studio, it is better to convert OBS files to Sony Movie Studio more compatible format.

Sony Movie Studio supported formats:
Import: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, OGG, PCA, PNG, QuickTime, SND, SFA, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Export: AAC, AIFF, AVC, AVI, BMP, FLAC, JPEG, LPEC, MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, OGG, PCA, PNG, TIFF, QuickTime, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV

Since MPEG-2 is one of the most compatible for Sony Movie Studio, which ensures maximum editing quality and efficiency, the common practice for OBS to Sony Movie Studio workflow is, get a video converter and transcode OBS MP4 files to MPEG-2, which will save you both time and trouble. All you need is to drag the result videos for prompt editing. You can depend on Pavtube Video Converter to achieve the goal.

                

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How to convert OBS MP4 files to MPEG-2 for Sony Movie Studio?

Step 1: Download and install the program. Click “Add video” on the main interface to load OBS MP4 files to the program. You can also drag the files to the program’s window list directly. This program can also support the batch video clips.



Step 2: Select the right formats for Sony Movie Studio. Here we suggest you to go to the “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” list, you will get the “MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as the best output.



Step 3: By clicking the “Settings” button, you can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Step 4: At this point, you can change the output filename or output path if you wish. If you feel satisfied with your options, Just hit the “Convert” button to activate OBS MP4 file to Sony Movie Studio MPEG-2 conversion.

Conclusion: This program is highly efficient because it’s boosted with CPU and GPU (30X faster). And a neat process bar will show the percentage and remaining time. When all conversions completed, you’ll get a pop-up notice. Just click “Open Folder”, you can fast find where your converted files are saved.

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