Netflix Film Grain Synthesis saves on the bitrate

Netflix Film Grain Synthesis saves on the bitrate

The introduction of AV1 Film Grain Synthesis has allowed Netflix to retain the authenticity and nostalgia of a movie, while reducing the amount of bandwidth required to stream it.  Typically, film grain is difficult to compress, as traditional compression algorithms struggle to manage the random nature of grain. The result is a trade-off between preserving the grain and reducing the file size. Today, camera sensor noise brings in its own charact…