In the summer of 2023, Mark LeBlanc did everything right. He hired a cinematographer for his wedding in the Dordogne region of France. He paid extra for the drone package, the gimbal-stabilized walk down the aisle, and the 10-bit color depth that promised to render the lavender fields in a way that would make his mother cry.
In a perfect world, we would have moved to AV1—the open, royalty-free codec that solves all of HEVC’s licensing idiocy. But we don’t live in a perfect world. We live in a world where wedding videographers bought Sony FX6 cameras in 2022 that default to HEVC, and they are not upgrading their $10,000 rigs for another five years. the honeymoon hevc
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