I’m really sorry Alex but I’m just not seeing any compression artifacts in that video. I see a ton of other issues, LOL… but not compression issues. ESB Dreamastered is denoised with non-matching grain on top. Whatever you’re seeing that is offputting probably has a lot more to do with the process than bit starvation.

A guy named Skydude has shown me it’s better to blend the denoised with the original, but of course that didn’t make sense here because the original is so trashed up.

Reel 4 cleaning is finished. I started with that one because I’m a big Yoda fan and it’s probably the easiest of the reels to clean. When the whole project is done I might do a raw “noisy” version and then another version with Skydude’s technique. For the noisy version a BD50 release would make more sense.