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That's interesting, according to vmaf there's pretty much no quality improvement going from 8-bit to 10-bit. I guess the quality really is so high that 10-bit doesn't offer any meaningful advantage here. Both achieved similar bitrates too btw.

10-bit av1 vmaf: 97.2310

8-bit av1 vmaf: 97.0109

So encodes like this are in fact "bloat"? They seem pretty small though.