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Commercial Licensing for Generated Video

Commercial licensing for generated video does not scale with render volume: Editframe gates its paid tiers by employee count, not by how many videos a team renders, while FFmpeg's LGPL license and MoviePy's MIT license carry no such gate at any size. The TPL-30 benchmark measures what each tool actually costs to run before that license gate applies.

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What a recorded run looks like

How we test
6s excerpt from 30s output
Tool
ffmpeg 8.0.1 (libx264, aac; libfreetype=no)
Wall clock
7,549 ms
Output
1920×1080, 30 fps, 989,397 bytes

Runvbc-2026-08-09-ffmpeg-tpl30-001, measured 2026-08-09. Excerpt starts at 2s of the TPL-30 output; the clip is re-encoded to VP9 for the web and carries no audio track. Speed and colour are unchanged.