The search for is not about being a snob; it is about respect for the visual medium. You are watching a production shot on high-end cinema cameras with professional lighting. Watching a 2GB, bitrate-starved MP4 on your phone is like drinking a fine wine out of a paper cup.
# 3️⃣ AV1 fallback for future‑proofing ffmpeg -i "$INPUT" -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 30 -b:v 0 \ -vf "scale=-2:1080" -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -c:a aac -b:a 192k \ -movflags +faststart "$BASE_av1.mp4" pppd515mp4 better
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