Hi,

There are a lot of recommendations for recording (and playback already). But I'm seeing updates on vMix video rendering for playback and was wondering about *current* optimal codec.

I'd bet the following describes [relatively] common playback desires, but thanks in advance given the detail. What might ya'll recommend for one that is best *in vMix* with considerations in roughly the following order?

-Directly importable and editable (even if not ideally so) in Premiere and Resolve
-*No stuttering, in vMix, on a decent system with production resource usage overhead*
-Acceptable quality (at 1080P30) for 4k or large screens
-Whatever compression, ideally does not exceed 25-35 Mbps for the above quality (i.e. uncompressed, 4:4:4 and/or high bit depth are excessive)
-vMix places the load on the GPU
-Barring that, minimal CPU usage (e.g. mpeg-2 over h.265)
-Excellent apparent quality if played back on 'regular' screen sizes at or below 1080 resolution
-Ideally does not exceed 8-10 Mbps for the above quality
-Max bit rate aside, lower rate for the same quality preferred (e.g. h.264 over mpeg-2)
-Per Clint (and in-thread reply), a format with some decent precision using the SetPosition command
-Other things being fairly equal, minimal NLE render time

Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify, I'm not getting any stuttering, but put it there (really, should have been the top) since that's probably something everyone can agree on and have seen it crop up for other users.

To this day I still have a 10+ year old .mpg somewhere that brings modern CPUs/GPUs to their knees :D

I also use mp4, but dual playback (video background + media file) adds a noticeable bump to CPU and nothing to GPU, vs no playback at all. That, and imprecise in/out points are my biggest drivers in looking for an alternative.