Artifact Removal
Reducing blocking, banding and other compression artifacts from heavily compressed or re-encoded video.
- Price
- From $45.00 per finished minute
- Free trial
- A 30-second cut from your own footage, no card, no commitment.
What to send us
The footage in the best version you have, a note of where it came from, such as a streaming download or a re-exported file, and the visible problems like blocking, banding or mosquito noise.
What you get back
Footage with compression blocking, banding and edge noise reduced, gradients smoothed and detail kept where possible, exported at a bitrate high enough not to reintroduce the problem.
What to check before you sign off
Look at skies, walls and dark gradients at full screen. Those smooth areas show compression damage first, and they also show over-smoothing.
Part of Video Cleanup & Noise Reduction. How the work runs and what it costs across the family are set out in the video editing & production guide.
Rates and common questions for this work are on the Video Editing & Production page.
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