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 ### But why?
 The author of that Mastodon post mentioned that he wrote a bash script to do
-this that took a *a couple of days* to run for a short clip. I wanted to see if
-I could make it faster (and I did - this runs on the order of a few *minutes*
-for similarly short clips). It might be possible to make this script even
-faster, but I couldn't figure out how without the script using too much memory.
+this that took *a couple of days* to run for a short clip. I wanted to see if I
+could make it faster (and I did - this runs on the order of a few *minutes* for
+similarly short clips). It might be possible to make this script even faster,
+but I couldn't figure out how without the script using too much memory.
 
 ### Is this even useful?
 I would love to find out that it is!