I used to work production at a local news television station a couple of years ago. They had an issue with black frames in footage, due to media software that was older than I am and their reporters having lackluster editing skills.
The process they used to fix this required searching through the slow server, finding the project file, finding the black frame, removing it, re-rendering, all while hoping the footage still exists on the server. This took 15-30 minutes to do each time and changed the runtime of the videos, which fucked everything up.
I created a computer program that removed the back frames automatically, preserved the runtime, and only took 2 minutes per video. Nothing fancy, I just took ffmpeg and wrote a custom GUI that made it really easy to select a video file and then a big button that says “Remove Black Frames”.
I was told essentially “That's not your job. You're stepping on toes. Stay in your lane. How dare you.” and then was passed on a promotion a month later. The station, to this day, still has problems with black frames. I can't wrap my head around it? They're owned by the largest local broadcast corp in the country, why are they deliberately fucking up the newscasts?