I spent countless nights rendering test clips – 30-second segments from heavily pixelized sources – while tweaking these values. The only emerged when I found the sweet spot: strength=0.78 , temporal_radius=3 , detail_boost=45 .
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: For general "quality" improvement, papers like "Beyond a Gaussian Denoiser: Residual Learning of Deep CNN for Image Denoising" (DnCNN) are industry standards. I spent countless nights rendering test clips –