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It’s mostly only visible in the closeup of the kid. There are hairs that have been unnecessarily accentuated, and his eye and eyebrow outline look hyper-sharpened, with rough edges.

The non-zoomed image looks fine to me, and I (to some extent) know what I’m looking for. Some private torrent trackers that pride themselves on having transparent encodes will look for this kind of stuff; you have to do multiple test encodes tweaking various parameters to ffmpeg, agonizing over A/B screencaps, only to inevitably be told you either missed some minuscule detail in a single scene, or that your encode is bloated.



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