• Adobe After Effects

  mask feather difficulties

  Posted by Timothy Chew on January 20, 2010 at 3:28 am

  hi there,
  i’m attempting to achieve a vignette over a dark brown solid. i’ve got a feathered oval mask over the layer, but since it is such a dark color, the gradation has a stair-step look to it. since i want a gradual and smooth gradation, is there any solution beyond brightening the background?

  thanks in advance!
  -tim

  Wieger De leur replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  January 20, 2010 at 7:13 am

  Try switching to 16 or 32bpc. Anf if you’rendering to something like the DV CODEC, then add some noise to remove the color banding.

  HTH
  RoRK

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  Wieger De leur

  January 20, 2010 at 7:16 am

  Hi Timothy,

  Is it an idea to change the depth in your project settings to 16 or 32 bits per channel?

  cheers,
  Wieger

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