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Old 29th May 2020, 23:16   #126  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit View Post
Is it reasonable to generate the grain table with a heavily denoised reference, yet do the actual encoding with a more gently denoised clip?

I've found that getting full grain elimination using tools like SMDegrain or KNLMeansCL requires some pretty heavy handed settings, which can result in the plastic face effect. The grain synthesis is really nice, but I'd like to dial back the denoising strength when actually encoding a bit.
Sounds like a worthy experiment. I can imagine that the grain at playback could wind up being more intense than in the source if the grain table is based assuming more grain was removed than actually was.
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