Totally disagree, I have a wrapper I wrote myself for converting things, often for sharing the odd little clip online or such. It produces a
complex command that is not easy to just type out, that does multiple things to maximise compatibility like
- making sure pixel are square while resizing if the video resolution is too large
("scale=w=if(gt(iw*sar\\,ih)\\,min(ceil(iw*sar/2)*2\\,{})\\,ceil(iw*sar*min(ih\\,{})/ih/2)*2):h=if(gt(ih\\,iw*sar)\\,min(ceil(ih/2)*2\\,{})\\,ceil(ih*min(iw*sar\\,{})/iw/sar/2)\*2):out_range=limited,zscale,setsar=1")
- dealing with some HDR or high gamut thing I can't really remember that can result from screen recording on macos using some method I was using at some point
- setting this one tag on hevc files that macos needs for them to be recognised as hevc but isn't set by default
- calculating the target bitrate if I need a specific filesize and verifying the encode actually hit that size and retrying if not (doesn't always work first time with certain hardware encoders even if they have a target or max bitrate parameter)
- dealing with 2-pass encoding which is fiddly and requires two separate commands and the parameters are codec specific
- correctly activating hardware encoding for various codecs
- etc
And this is just for the basic task of "make this into a simple mp4"
- making sure pixel are square while resizing if the video resolution is too large
- dealing with some HDR or high gamut thing I can't really remember that can result from screen recording on macos using some method I was using at some point- setting this one tag on hevc files that macos needs for them to be recognised as hevc but isn't set by default
- calculating the target bitrate if I need a specific filesize and verifying the encode actually hit that size and retrying if not (doesn't always work first time with certain hardware encoders even if they have a target or max bitrate parameter)
- dealing with 2-pass encoding which is fiddly and requires two separate commands and the parameters are codec specific
- correctly activating hardware encoding for various codecs
- etc
And this is just for the basic task of "make this into a simple mp4"