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Tangential but, at least for me, I find lots of video creators making 2-3 gig videos for no noticable difference in quality for me re-encoding them to 1/4th the size or less.

My impression is, their audience equates file size with quality so the bigger the file the more "value" they got from the creator. This is frustrating because bigger files means hitting transfer limits, slower to download, slower to copy, taking more space, etc...

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Do youngins even know why AVI files are under 700mb? I think obsessions over quality/compression are the concern of us aging hobbyist encoders.

Unless one lives in a country where the internet is slow and/or hard drives are expensive, I think the audience does not care.

Yeah, similarly, my DSLR makes some huge video files, but they aren't that much better quality than my phone's. Of course, the sensor is massively better, and that makes a difference, but I don't know why the files are so much bigger.

My hypothesis is that they use a really high quality value, and that there are diminishing returns there.

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