Lex Fridman: preference

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…Yeah, of course, I’m sure. Because– So most of the people, they’re going to take FFmpeg, file in, file out, and specify the format, right? But you can– We’ve seen thousands of characters, and we’ve seen also, like, people doing programming generation of command lines to make FFmpeg. There is a ton of people who are using AI to generate command lines for FFmpeg because you have no idea what it is. But you can specify so many filters, right on command line, right? So FFmpeg is this collection of toolbox for multimedia processing that everyone, everyone uses. And everyone that is watching your videos are also using, right? You’re on YouTube. Well, it’s FFmpeg on the client side. Well, the server side, on the server side. The client side is probably Chrome. Well, you’re using FFmpeg also. And you’re using OBS to record. Well, it’s FFmpeg, right? You’re using a ton of important, like, big box, professional boxes. Well, it’s very possible that inside some part of FFmpeg is running. I mean, there’s like so many, just to give people an idea, like I use FFmpeg a lot on everything. Just trivial stuff like take a video, add an intro video and an outro video, and fade one into the other like what is it called? Dip to black, like where it dips and then shows the next video and does the same thing with audio. There’s like a cross dissolve of the audio. It quiets the audio and makes it loud again. And then there’s a bunch of stuff like showing the captions on screen card, like baking the captions in. You can customize the font. You can do all kinds of layering of audio and video. There’s a million things and of course, all of that works like magically with basically any codec. Like anything you can shove in on the audio and the video side, it works. But it’s like if you look at, for example, you can do things that you would do with Adobe After Effects- … in command line on FFmpeg, right? It’s, and it’s very interesting because, for example, for images, there is not such tool. There is a few tools, but not with the breadth of FFmpeg.…

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