I automated my first job in a similar way. Re-encode video files to web-friendly formats and upload them (prior to YouTube). There was a guy whose full-time j

I automated my first job in a similar way. Re-encode video files to web-friendly formats and upload them (prior to YouTube). There was a guy whose full-time job was to sit and do that with a Windows GUI. First approximation was an AutoIt script. Second approximation was with bash and ffmpeg.