> I'm considering setting up a script to automatically convert those clips to H.265 afterwards so I can still have reasonably good archival footage but at like

> I'm considering setting up a script to automatically convert those clips to H.265 afterwards so I can still have reasonably good archival footage but at like 1/100th the file size. FFmpeg has gotten decent AV1 support with SVT-AV1 recently. I think it would make for an interesting video to compare different codecs and see which one is "best" for a certain set of trade offs. You could make a script that encodes a video snippet while varying parameters like codec, preset, crf, grain, 10-bit, hardware or software encoding, etc, use one of the automatic quality metrics like Netflix's VMAF, and plot size, quality, encode time, power usage against each other.