• Adobe After Effects

  Reducing banding on 1080p footage

  Posted by Jim Bachalo on October 20, 2013 at 7:49 pm

  I’ve found that by adding noise (along with some blur) I can reduce banding substantially especially in clips that are then uploaded to Vimeo(which compresses again and therefore exaggerates any existing banding)

  Has anyone experimented with amounts and types of noise ( and blur) to add? There’s regular, fractal and turbulent.

  Local is the new global

  Aleksey Tarasov replied 12 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mathew Fuller

  October 20, 2013 at 10:06 pm

  Adding .5 up to maybe 3.0 amount of noise will usually do it.

  I never add blur.

  You also must render at either 16bit or 32bit to get the benefits though.

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  Aleksey Tarasov

  October 21, 2013 at 6:48 am

  I prefer to add natural film grain to reduce banding…

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