• Adobe After Effects

  Banding in lighting

  Posted by Aaron Beall on May 13, 2011 at 7:26 am

  I’ve created a simple composition that uses a 3d solid layer and a point light to create a soft vignette appearance. Everything looks okay when exported to lossless QuickTime, but when I sent it to the video guy he said that after compressing there was bad banding, and I had to remove the light completely (everything looks flat and boring now.)

  Is there a trick in AfterEffects to create soft lighting with minimal compression banding?

  Dave Johnson replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  May 13, 2011 at 11:18 am

  Work in 16 or 32 bit and render a sequence of files tga @ 32bit or uncompressed tiff.
  Sometimes it helps to add grain.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Dave Johnson

  May 13, 2011 at 1:02 pm

  Search the AE forum for “banding” and you’ll find tons of threads with tips … most of which center around upping the color resolution, adding grain and/or adjusting individual color channels.

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