AE / banding
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- harlequino
When I render a video out of AE, with some sort of gradient element (especially backgrounds), I am getting a lot of banding in the gradient colors. Chunks of color, and loss of the smooth gradient. It seems to happen whether I use the ramp effect in AE, create something in Illy, and PS. Any suggestions?
Oh, and its generally on a preview monitor or other television when I see this. Looks fine on the computer screen. Thx.
- t-sixtyfive0
change your bit rate from 8bit to either 16 or 32bit and it should clear that up
- sander0
try adding a layer with some noise and a very low opacity on top of the gradient?
- Ramanisky20
exactly what those 2 above me just said
- harlequino0
Excellent. Never thought of those. Many thanks! :)
- ********0
isn't this a compression artifact?
- defanddumm0
good advice here.
- harlequino0
No Rand, I was getting that at highest quality as well.
- Ramanisky20
if you chnge it to 32 bit color depth it increases everything by quite a bit ... file size & render time
- defanddumm0
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- harlequino0
Thanks, all. Understanding those settings is still a bit of a hole in my knowledge. You've all taught me something here today.
That no matter how unfortable it might make us, you have to tell a grown up when someone inappropriately touches us.
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And that even Bruce Dikinson was not the original singer of Iron Maiden, his distinctive voice really shaped the identity and legacy of the band.
- M0NEYCIDE0
i want to take this thread over for a sec and ask a few more ae questions. I got a base edited video that i've done a ton of color correction etc i plan on rendering that first and layering that with a bunch of crazy fx etc if i render the base video with color correction at 16 bit then do the stuff on top in 32 is this going to make a big difference?
the other thing is when i've tried to render sections it stops at 4.1 gigs exactly for every file and says there's no memory left, but i can render more i got plenty on my hardrive. is there some render limit setting ?
- defanddumm0
moneycide, I would have done evrything in 32.
- cabbas0
MONEYCIDE - it might have something to do with the type of file system your hard drive is formatted for. If you are FAT32, then I don't think you can have a single file larger than 4 gigs... not sure if that's the case, but if it is, try rendering an image sequence. That way each individual file is 4 - 6 megs instead of having one 4 gig movie.
cheers.
- M0NEYCIDE0
interesting thanks. i plan on doing everything 32 bit but doing a 16 bit base video was just a way around these large files. i think it will make a difference considering it's all color stuff. i'll try the image sequence thing too.
- pr20
easy there amigos with those numbers. 32 bit is an over kill. What you need is 16bits. Besicaly at 8 bits each pixel has 256 values but at 16 bits it cab have 1000...something values. So... the files size is 4x that of 8 bit.