Question for those cleverer than I am with the AV1 codec
When encoding AV1 videos without denoising, do you still need to specify a grain synthesis level?
I tested a grainy 1080P file (from bluray) at 12, 20 and 30 & they look no different with only file sizes changing
film-grain-denoise=0:film-grain=x
SVT AV1, CRF 15, Preset 6, FastFlix was used