it lets you masure the time it takes your processor to encode video to different video codecs, it simply times the amount of time it takes to prep and encode a shotcut project file that has 4K video with some text overlay and some awesome music in flac by GUNSHIP
audio
uses 25sec of GUNSHIP - Revel in Your Time which you can find on their GUNSHIP album https://gunshipmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gunship (buy it its awesome)
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see https://nwgat.ninja/thefireescape
this is how it should look as a diectory
F:\TheFireEscape-master\Shotcut\qmelt.exe
F:\TheFireEscape-master\TheFireEscape.bat
F:\TheFireEscape-master\TheFireEscape.raw.y4m
F:\TheFireEscape-master\TheFireEscape.mlt
F:\TheFireEscape-master\bench.x264.py
F:\TheFireEscape-master\bench.x265.py