In my parlance bake = render, a term for if you have to render something out before your final render. I’m not really a professional so I don’t know if that’s proper usage but I’ve heard a lot of ppl saying it recently.
Thanks for your tip on framerate. Switching to 24 seemed to work too. There is audio however that I need to be sync’d to, I wonder if using 23.976 is important in that regard?