but if you do want more eyes on it, we can either try poking at your uncompressed .mov to see if we can smooth it out somehow, or you can email me your export/compressor settings and I can compare them to what I used last year, see if there's something that might be causing it.

You don't mean still poking at it for VVC, right? Just to solve the problem? Because, yes, I'd really like to figure out how to get rid of them, and would love some help.

I'm still capturing. The one time I got all ambitious and tried to rip, the DVD was one of the rare ones that foiled ripping and re-encoding, so I abandoned learning all of that out of frustration.