The Fire Escape 4K Benchmark

The Fire Escape is a 4K benchmark that measure the time it takes to encode a 4K file to x264 using open souce video editor OpenShot

uses a shotcut project file with a raw 4k video file, flac music by GUNSHIP, Text Overlay

above scores are average of 5 runs
please note that these systems are not benchmark systems and are real world

• bench.x264.py Encoding 3840x2160p24 4K Shotcut Project using qmelt to x264 with Slow Preset and 16 CRF
• bench.x265.py Encoding 3840x2160p24 4K Shotcut Project using qmelt to x265 with Slow Preset and 16 CRF
• bench.vp9.py whenever google gets around to implementing proper multi-threading
• bench.av1.py whenever aomedia gets around to finalizing spec and implementing multi-threading

Install

• Download https://github.com/nwgat/TheFireEscape/archive/master.zip
• Run TheFireEscape.bat and select 1 (this will install python, dl 4k source file with shotcut and uncompress)
• Run TheFireEscape.bat to select 2 (x264) or 3 (x265) benchmarks
• Submit x264 results here

Tests cpu/ram and ssd/hdd and the results are in seconds

Special Thanks to

• iWalkingCorpse for 1500X
• Vegetables for 1700 3.8Ghz
• Xplode for Threadripper 1950X
• T-Nan for 7800X
• shillzude for 5820K

This Benchmark is based on Shotcut and MLT open source project https://www.shotcut.org/