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Premiere Pro CS 5.5 – H.264 export mangles gradient images
What other encoders / options are available that may allow me to improve the image quality of gradients in my video?
I’m exporting a 15mbps 1080p video with no live footage, just moving text and images over gradient backgrounds. Everything looks top notch except the gradient (it’s banded and occasionally blocky).
I’ve read one suggestion to export the video and encode in Handbrake. What format would I export to, and wouldn’t I lose quality in the export?
thanks for any feedback
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2 Replies
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Try adding some noise to your gradient — that can help remove the banding w/your H264 movie files.
Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
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Ben… I realize you posted your reply over a year ago on 8/29/11; however, I had to let you know how valuable your suggestion to add noise was. I have a number of high quality, black and white, artistic images taken by a professional photographer that contain subtle gradient shades of grey that look exceptional while in Premiere Pro but blotch up and degrade in visual quality once exported. I tried exporting to nearly every single format combination possible without success; however, adding just 1% noise in Photoshop first was enough to exponentially enhance the final exported vid.
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your expertise, as I searched for hours to see what options were available, and this was the ONLY bit of info on this particular issue.
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