![]() Organic, natural-looking grain becomes artificial, digital noise. ![]() This can manifest as banding or blockiness across large areas of color, or noise and muddiness in skin tones. When you add film grain (or snow, or digital particle effects) to a video, there’s much more information changing from frame to frame, and the compression will usually react by ‘smushing’ the areas of common color (normally your beautiful shallow-focus background) together. ![]() Tom Scott provides a great overview of what’s going on in this video:Īs Tom explains, the compression algorithms are designed to save data (and file size) by discarding information that doesn’t change much from frame to frame. So why is this happening? To begin with, it helps to understand how video compression works. Film grain can be especially problematic – what looks like beautiful, fine-grain film emulation in your preview window in your editor can be turned into blocky mush by the inscrutable encoding gods. ![]() Our users often complain that their carefully mastered, high-resolution video files end up looking far worse when they are uploaded to streaming sites. We’ll leave the political commentary to voices more qualified than ours, but one aspect of the video many people can agree upon is the noticeable noise and artifacts in the master version uploaded to Youtube. If you haven’t already watched (and rewatched) the video, check out the link above – content warning, contains violent imagery. The latest music video by Childish Gambino for ‘This is America’, directed by Hiro Murai, is a visually stunning and provocative statement on the intersection of race, politics, music and entertainment in the United States.
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