Often we use ffmpeg commands that have esoteric or unmemorizable options. This is my dumping grounds for all the ones I need to remember somewhere. I am posting this publicly in the hope that it can help other people. If anyone has specific questions/suggestions/improvements for a command, please comment. If you're seeking help creating your own ffmpeg command, I recommend using ChatGPT. It may be bad at math, but it's actually really good at coming up with CLI usages, and even writing quick scripts for their use.
Encode a video losslessly for archiving and as a deinterlaced H.264+AAC file for viewing. This was designed for taking the uncompressed (!) Quicktime MOV output of Blackmagic Media Express and shrinking it to something more manageable for archiving as well as viewing. Note the "seek