There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who watch the Battle of Prestonpans with a box of tissues, and those who watch it with a terminal window open.
Enter . The "Mark me, this is inefficient" Moment You know how Claire is always frustrated by 18th-century medicine? That’s how I feel about GUI video editors. They crash, they watermark your output, and they take forty minutes to export a 30-second clip.
FFmpeg is the Jamie Fraser of video tools: rugged, command-line driven, surprisingly fast with a sword (or codec), and once you learn its language, it will never let you down.
Enough was enough. I bought the digital copy, but it came as a 12GB MKV file with DTS audio that my phone couldn’t play. I needed to convert it, clip a few key scenes (for a fan edit, obviously), and sync the audio without losing quality.
I am the second kind.