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Her cursor hovered over the folder icon. Three years ago, she’d been in the final callback for The Red Shoes at the National Ballet. Three years ago, she’d blown out her Achilles on a cold February morning, the snap echoing off the studio mirrors like a gunshot. Three years since she’d stopped dancing. Three years since she’d stopped watching anyone else dance, either. For viewers looking to understand the technical quality

The x264 codec is the workhorse of digital video. For Ballerina , which has a runtime of 93 minutes, x264 provides a transparent compression—meaning you cannot tell the difference between the 5GB version and the 25GB version unless you pause and zoom into a static background. Subscribe for technical breakdowns of streaming, codecs, and