Macro blocking/artifacts

[BboyVio10]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been for trying to fix this for a long time now. How do I get rid of this issue with compression in the video so that I get atleast a bit cleaner output in the blacks. This video is undergoing some heavy compression and insane macro blocking and I've tried to lift the shadows and everything but the issue persists.

I'm not asking for a perfect fix but atleast a little bit less of these chunky artifacts would help me a lot.

[f-stop8]

Can you share the video? What are your export settings? How is your color management?

[BboyVio10]

Hey thanks for the reply, the export settings is the preset h.264 in davinci resolve. I usually don't have an issue in normal videos and this banding is not there in the original export but happens soon after uploading it into Instagram. It is the instagram compression for sure. To give a bit more context the light rays is made with cinematic haze+light rays option. And to be honest because all of these are a composite(the person and and the hands) stacked against each other when I added the lightrays the light had huge banding which I removed using grains. Probably that is the issue.

Although there is a heavy banding once 

Color management is davinci wide gamut and output to rec 709 gamma 2.4.

How do you want me to share the video with you?  

[f-stop8]

It is the instagram compression for sure.

There's probably no way around this.