>doesn't each re-encode degrade quality Sometimes, it depends on what you were transcoding between in the previous steps, but it most likely doesn't matter bec

>doesn't each re-encode degrade quality Sometimes, it depends on what you were transcoding between in the previous steps, but it most likely doesn't matter because your original consumer-handheld-camera-and-cheap-tapes quality was trash anyway. Like another commenter mentioned, in cases like this you'd want one high-quality archive export, then transcode to one or a few lossy formats for ease of streaming. You'd fix the audio drift by changing the sample rate of the audio stream with asetrate: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#asetrate https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#asetrate (or you could change the framerate of the video, either way)