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Re-Encoding Before Upscaling Is Usually a Waste of a Generation (Measured)

Every upscaling tutorial says the same thing: "transcode to ProRes first, so the upscaler isn't working on compressed data." It sounds like hygiene.

  • Transcoding to ProRes before upscaling is ineffective when applied at the wrong stage.
  • Lossless transcode has no effect on PSNR and SSIM at various bitrates.
  • Upscaling followed by encoding the larger frame yields better results when bitrate is increased.

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