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In the autumn of 2012, a young filmmaker named Maya sat in her cramped apartment, staring at a blinking cursor on a blank project file. She had just finished shooting a short documentary on a borrowed DSLR, but her editing software was a decade old and crashed every time she tried to play back the H.264 files. She had no budget for software—rent was due, and craft services consisted of instant ramen. She also learned what happened at the end
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