Has anybody seen any of The Creator rips? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've only seen screen shots so far, but something looks very amiss about all these rips (irrespective of the file size)

This is supposed to be an epic sci-fi blockbuster, but all the posted images appear to look very 'cropped' and/or low res.

Is the film supposed to look like it only takes up half of the available screen?

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[-] crossover@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

The film uses an intentionally wide aspect ratio. It also has a lot of added film grain, also intentional. But the grain messes with low bitrate rips. Grab the 20gb+ 4K Web-DL rip to get it in the best possible quality.

[-] the_third@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

AV1 and film-grain synthesis solves this.

[-] crossover@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Oh nice. Didn’t know about this. Seems like an interesting solution!

[-] the_third@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Works fine for me. One has to take care not to overdo it, so the enconding filter sticks to erase noise and doesn't start to remove fine details. I usually iterate over steps of five for the setting in FFmpeg/SVTAV1 on a 10 second sample of the source to find the best setting.

The player will then reproduce the noise pattern the encoder has identified during playback.