In my case, yes. My setup is managed using Ansible playbooks, so I have a dev inventory and a playbook that spins up a virtualized environment that mimics (as much as possible, as there are a few details that cannot be fully replicated) my home lab.

That way, I usually prepare my new setups on dev, and then deploy on my pro setup and test with the few aspects I cannot reproduce in dev.

Finally, I have everything backed by a (private) git repo.

Usually ads have a significant volume above the content they sorround (which, by the way, is the thing annoys me the most), so you would only need to check audio for that, which is lot less load than processing the video.