My Real-Life Review: Living With Video Compression Artifacts

  • If you film sports, travel, or night scenes—yes. These glitches will show up.
  • If you shoot talking heads in good light—less so. You’ll be fine with normal settings.
  • If you post to apps a lot, start from the cleanest master you can. You’ll thank yourself later.

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My bottom line

Compression artifacts aren’t a bug you can fully erase. They’re a trade. Smaller files, faster sharing—at a cost. But you can steer it.

For me, the wins came from three simple moves:

  • upload higher resolution when possible,
  • avoid noisy clips,
  • and don’t crush the file too hard.

Do that, and your video keeps its soul. Even after the internet takes a bite.