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

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

Special Thanks to

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