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Old 21st July 2020, 16:07   #8  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by Atlantis View Post
Even if I do a perfect mod 16 crop on picture, I see a little artifact on the last line. It's not 100% smooth. So in some cases I find that if I keep a little more black lines, the encodes are better on the edges. Have you seen this? What is this encode difficulty at the edges of the video?
Are you sure you cropped tight enough to make sure it's 100% full brightness pixels at the bottom edge?

I can imagine cases where if letterboxing is mod4 or even mod2, AMP would help in making that bottom line solid. But if it is dimmer from being from the edge, you could get some weirdness.
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