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One Explosive Situation

An industry that writes its own rules leaves us all at risk

Murray Campbell

Starchitect Saga

Two accounts chart the emergence of Frank Gehry’s genius

Martin Laflamme

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Amanda Perry

Abbott | Elementary S02e02 Ffmpeg

It is the difference between photocopying a handwritten lesson plan (lossy) and scanning it as a PDF (lossless). Season 2 of Abbott Elementary is already a classic. Treat your digital copies with the respect they deserve. Use FFmpeg. Keep the laughs, lose the bloat.

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If you are like me, you are still laughing about the chaos of the "Wrong Lever" gag or Janine’s desperate attempts to impress Ava in Season 2, Episode 2 of Abbott Elementary . It is the difference between photocopying a handwritten

But as a digital archivist (or just a fan with a hard drive), you don't want to re-encode the whole 22-minute episode just to share a 15-second clip. You want to use the scalpel, not the sledgehammer. Use FFmpeg