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.

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 .

Enter . No GUI. No bloat. Just pure, command-line magic.

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.