@kaiowut99 because visual examples are nice, I opened this in Photoshop real quick and added noise + blur like I was finishing up editing it myself

it didn’t really make it match better because in this case the noise + blur were also applied to the background, but hopefully it gives you some idea?

Like most of what I do in Photoshop I just kind of throw random shit at the canvas and see what sticks, but generally I use Add Noise set to a very low amount, with uniform distribution and the monochromatic box ticked,and then apply a very slight gaussian blur.

here’s a comparison of the edited and unedited versions, zoomed in a little to make the changes more obvious because they’re really subtle. But that’s what you want!

It’s kind of weird to try and intentionally add compression artifacts to something but I do think it helps edits blend in when you’re working with less than pristine video. If you had nice Blu-ray rips to work with I don’t think any of this would be necessary, but with DVD quality it helps.

(as for the actual edits you want from me, I’ll get them done tonight or tomorrow morning!)