Demo clip - gentler candidates

Round two, all below the light version you saw. Number 2 has no sharpening at all - it is the same picture encoded at higher quality, which removes the compression mush without putting an edge on anything. Numbers 3 and 4 add a touch on top of that, well under half the strength of the one that was too strong. Same frame, same width, 1.25x, same saturation as the site.

1. Current, as deployed

no sharpening · crf 18 · 1.9 MB

2. Higher quality only, no sharpening

no unsharp · crf 16

3. Very light sharpen

unsharp luma 0.25 · crf 16 · about 40 percent of the one that was too strong

4. Light sharpen

unsharp luma 0.4 · crf 16 · two thirds of the one that was too strong