Why snow and confetti degrades YouTube video quality

Hmm, I've never really noticed this, but now I can't unsee it. Tom Scott explains in a very clear way why moving bits in video can sometimes degrade YouTube video quality. It has to do with how much information is compressed in a streaming video and how that information is channeled to users' computers across the internet. More moving parts in a video mean more data. But with a bottleneck of speed, that video can sure start to look crappy.

Color Grading in Filmmaking

There's a part in this video where the creator matches a standard video file with one scene from the dark, contrasty, and moody movie Fight Club. Pretty cool. I've done a bit of this on my own for some video work in the past but I can't say that I've done enough of it to know exactly what I'm doing. I guess it's similar to matching color in re-touching -- but video work just seems to have so much more knobs, adjustments, and controls overall. I definitely get overwhelmed. This video sort of makes it seem easy though. I just might have to jump back into Final Cut Pro X to give it another go.