• Adobe After Effects

  banding on mask/vignette

  Posted by Xtothed on April 12, 2006 at 2:32 pm

  hi guys,

  have animated some still images and added lens flare across them – nothing special or taxing.

  on top of this i have added a black solid, with a mask, feathered to 100, and 33% opacity.

  It looks fine in AE6.5 but when i render it out, either uncompressed or otherwise, then import it into FCP, to dump to tape the mask/vignette has banding through it…it isnt nice and even/smooth.

  I have checked the best quality and rasterise buttons, obviously?!

  Xavier

  Xtothed replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Harryjf

  April 12, 2006 at 5:46 pm

  Can you work in a 16 bits per channel project?

  Go to File>Project Settings>Color Depth and change it to 16.

  If that doesn’t work, try dithering your comp a little bit.

  Add an adjustment layer on the top of your comp, and add the filter Noise & Grain>Noise. Try as much as 5% noise, don’t use color noise. This might tone down the banding problem a little.
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  Xtothed

  April 13, 2006 at 9:35 am

  cheers

  that worked brilliantly

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