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  Colors and Compression for huge LED wall visuals (avoiding banding and general ugliness)

  Posted by Lori Lin on September 19, 2017 at 10:09 am

  Hi all!

  Anybody here with experience creating motion graphics for huge LED walls? How do you deal with banding and blockiness in the darks?

  We just had a big event with loads of video on a ginormous LED wall. It all looked great except for the darker videos…there was quite a bit of banding there. I’d like to improve that for the next time we do this. Are there any general guidelines about levels, compression, colors, etc. that I should keep in mind for next time?

  Cheers,
  Lori

  Tom Matthies replied 8 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Vince Becquiot

  September 21, 2017 at 6:07 pm

  Was the gamma on the LED wall possibly not set properly?

  As was as the graphics design goes, make sure to keep away from single color gradients, add a little bit of a secondary color to ramps.
  Second, add noise to gradients to keep banding at a minimum. In After Effects, that would be the grain effect.

  Vince Becquiot

  Indigo Live | Kaptis Media

  San Francisco Bay Area
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  Tom Matthies

  September 21, 2017 at 9:31 pm

  Edit everything in 10 bit.

  Not my monkeys. Not my circus.

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