About
I’m Sam Eller. I’ve worked in post-production in Los Angeles for more than ten years, mostly on the technical side: how picture and sound move through a pipeline, and what it takes to get them finished.
Along the way I’ve written a lot of small tools to automate repetitive work, check files and keep projects moving. OTRM is where I turn the best of those ideas into software for editors, filmmakers, artists and post teams.
The first two tools are Meg, an FFmpeg assistant, and DepthStudio, a 2D-to-stereo pipeline for spatial video.
What I know well
- Video and codecs
- How encoders, containers and metadata behave, and how to keep files intact from one tool to the next.
- Color
- Color pipelines and HDR, and the decisions that keep an image looking right on every screen.
- Spatial video
- Stereo and depth for headsets and immersive viewing.
- Automation
- Python and FFmpeg tooling, cloud processing on AWS, and fast file transfer.