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messe on July 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening

> It just adds visual noise that obscures details of the authentic scene

Does it add any more than modern video compression techniques? What constitutes noise in cinema, is somewhat subjective.

eviks on July 3, 2025 [–]

Which modern compression artifacts that are still visible at high bitrates do you have in mind that would similarly detail-obscuring?

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