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Spent way too long on the hero video for plugtronics. Source was 4k 120fps, around 400mb. Normal move is just throw it on a cdn but I wanted to see how small i could actually make it. So, wrote an ffmpeg chain. Motion interp, upscale with lanczos, hevc with the exact tag safari needs or it refuses to play.
It's 610kb now. didn't really expect it to work :)
Currently hosted on vercel, gonna move it to their own domain soon once that's sorted.
Site's up if you wanna check: plugtronics.vercel.app
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