Back to the drawing board feels like an exaggeration: most of what’s outlined here could be added non-destructively. Personally I love how powerful the video t

Back to the drawing board feels like an exaggeration: most of what’s outlined here could be added non-destructively. Personally I love how powerful the video tag is, you can even render it to a canvas tag and do all sorts of manipulations on top of it. But it’s the preparation of videos on the web that’s still a huge pain (and why folks use things like YouTube embeds): you’ve got your h264 standard encoding, but if you care about your users you’ll want to save them bandwidth and make h265 and vp9 encodings as well. What settings you apply to each encoding feels like a dark art to me, thankfully there are cloud services to help you but I wish it was simpler.