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davidsikes

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Significant Banding on Export

PostTue Apr 18, 2017 6:45 pm

I have a final export that involves some 3D lights. On my final export to ProRes LT (our organization's delivery format) banding is really bad. I understand that LT isn't a format that will necessarily look the best, but I never run into banding issues like this when exporting from AE. Any advice for reducing this? It doesn't seem to have helped, but I did change my Renderer3D node to be float32, as moving the project to 32bit is what I'd do in AE.
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Re: Significant Banding on Export

PostTue Apr 18, 2017 7:34 pm

Make sure the final render node is also set to 16 or 32 bit. In Fusion the background always wins, so you may have merged a 32 bit image over an 8 bit one which would then resort to 8 bit final output! So best to check the chain of nodes. I had this very recently. All Prores - including LT is 10 bit, if you are confident in your hardware chain is 10 bit through to final monitoring then i'm sure it's just a merge knocking your output back to 8-bit.
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Re: Significant Banding on Export

PostTue Apr 18, 2017 9:13 pm

If Paul's advice doesn't solve your problem for some reason, try adding a little bit of noise right before the export. It doesn't need to be much, just enough to create some dithering.
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Re: Significant Banding on Export

PostWed Apr 19, 2017 12:55 pm

Thanks everyone. I'll try those ideas as soon as I get a chance.

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