Can you elaborate?

@@HawksNestYT admittedly I know very little about 3d but in the photography many video world, grain tricks the compression algorithym, into thinking areas of pixels are far different, than they are as the compression process on most platforms, effectivly looks to group similar clusters and compression them, so detail in shadows for instance is often lost. Just a theory but I imagine a similar logic would apply here

@@HawksNestYT What Aaron said is basically correct. Say, you have a shadowy area. The colours will all be fairly dark, let's say close to black for this example. KZfaq will want the video size to be as small as possible, and it can do that by reducing the amount of colours in areas where colours are very similar to each other. So all of those coloured pixels in the shadows (which are very slightly different) will be made into one colour to save data. Then you get blocky video, as you may sometimes see with videos that have a lower colour depth as well. Grain consists of all kinds of different colours. Now, overlay that over the shadow, and KZfaq can't make out that all of those colours are quite close, because the grain constantly changes the image, and every pixel is a more varied colour than it would be without the grain. And since KZfaq can't see that it's all kind of the same, it can't reduce the colours. Therefore, better video quality!~ Also it would always be there to some degree in real photography / video, so it adds to the realism too.

I like this 🎈😄 thank you

@@AndreyLebrov you're welcome. The truth must always be told :)

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