Yes, all data stored in data centers administered by US companies like Apple/Google/Amazon/Microsoft should be considered available to the US Government and US competitors. There are known examples of the US government doing industrial espionage for US businesses in the past.
This is an extremely uncomfortable truth that European businesses really don't want to acknowledge and just keep pretending it's not true, not a big deal, and even if it was there is nothing they can do about it.
Instead they focus on complying with endless security check lists with unlikely scenarios while ignoring the elephant in the room.
I would actually argue that once the masses are aware about certain technology existing and being in widespread use it becomes much easier to convince someone that a particular instance that the data is not trustworthy, so the ability to detect it through technological means becomes less important.
In the stage before widespread use people are much more easily tricked because they are unaware that others have certain capabilities which they never experienced first hand.
I gave up on trying to read it on the desktop. I have Firefox with JavaScript enabled but after expanding every paragraph by clicking on it, it automatically collapses when I try to scroll using the cursor keys and completely disoriented me while the content I was trying to read dissapears from my view and the page stutters and different collapse paragraphs light up.
I guess I'll never know the details of the greatest user interface disasters in history but at least got to experience a smaller one myself.
I also have ethical standards for employers. I do feel like it has limited my career in some ways and that I did not accumulate as much wealth as I could have had if I had different standards. I do have the peace of mind that I can tell myself that I tried to make things better, of course there is more I could have done but I have accepted that there are limits to what to expect of yourself and others.
I did struggle finding work that would actively make the world better, and have limited my ambitions in that regards. I now settle for not actively making things worse.
I now work on software for accountants to automate and streamline workflows for them and their customers so everybody can spend less time on doing accounting and filing their taxes and just do whatever they are trying to do.
One benefit is that avoiding exploitative businesses also seems to have a good correlation of avoiding toxic work environments.
I am still often disappointed that many people seem to totally absolve any responsibility by deferring ethical decision making to whatever organization they are involved in. It's a chilling realization after interacting with someone to realize that their ethical compass just does not seem there, and they are completely unaware or OK with that.
I remember so many history classes in school where we would learn about how average people became involved in horrible things, and the few people that would stand up against it and face hardships because of it. Maybe the lesson was not that you should strive to be one of those people that stands up for what is right, but that it just the way it is that most people don't would rather keep their heads down.
My city removed all plastic recycling bins several years ago in favor of using trash sorting robots after collecting mixed waste.
The robots could pick sort 70% effectively while the population of humans after years of training was stuck at 50%. I imagine the efficiency of the robots may even have increased a bit since then.
Like Tomovo above already said; your workflow would benefit from using an intermediate format that is faster to encode. You can then automate the conversion to the output format to occur unattended at a more convenient time.
The use of intermediate formats is a well proven technique in video editing where encoding real time to AVC/HEVC at high quality is not possible. Codecs like ProRes are used that are much easier to encode to at the expense of storage space.
This is an extremely uncomfortable truth that European businesses really don't want to acknowledge and just keep pretending it's not true, not a big deal, and even if it was there is nothing they can do about it.
Instead they focus on complying with endless security check lists with unlikely scenarios while ignoring the elephant in the room.