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    Can’t mitigate banding

    Posted by Tobias Van kleeck on February 23, 2012 at 9:07 pm

    Hello all, thanks in advance for any help.

    I have a bad banding issue that seems to have only popped up since using Lion – not sure if 64 bit has anything to do with this or not.

    What I do know is this: My old machine – which is running Snow Leopard and which I did not boot in 64-bit – never gave me any banding problems in After Effects CS5. I would typically have a 1080p project in which I would throw a solid of the same resolution over with an ellipse mask feathered to around 600 to create a vignette – never saw any banding.

    Now, on my work machine which runs Lion, I’m still using AE CS5 – with all of the same settings – and the same solid feathered the same amount produces a very faint but clear border where the feathering “ends” and the middle part of the masked solid creating the vignette goes from semi-transparent to 100% transparent. Hopefully this makes some sort of sense.

    Here is the info on the machine in which I am having problems in case that is relevant:

    2 x 3.2 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
    NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
    OS X Lion 10.7.2
    After Effects CS5

    Can anyone help me understand this? Thanks again for any advice – I really appreciate it!

    -Tobias

    Tobias Van kleeck replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    February 23, 2012 at 10:11 pm

    i doubt that the os has anything to do with banding, though there are some issues with cs5 and lion… the graphics card might, so i would make sure that ae is not using opengl for previews (preferences>previews). also differences between the monitors may also have something to do with it.

    what you might try doing is rendering a frame at work that shows banding but that you think wouldn’t show banding at home. then take that still home, throw it into ae and see if you see banding.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Tudor “ted” jelescu

    February 24, 2012 at 11:23 am

    Also, work at 32 bit, that helps usually with feathering and glows.

    Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
    Senior VFX Artist

  • Tobias Van kleeck

    February 24, 2012 at 2:31 pm

    Great, thanks for all of the advice, guys. I will give all of that a shot!

  • Tobias Van kleeck

    February 24, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    Great, thanks for all of the advice guys! I will surely give of of this a shot.

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