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Rendering gradients for final output
I’m about to finish and output to DVD a 2 minute promo that has a few gradients in it. Done in AE and FCP (NTSC DV). Should I take the sequence from FCP to After Effects and redo these sections at 16 (or even 32 bits)? Lossless render? Will I see a difference? It’s getting compressed to MPEG2 anyway.
What if I just rendered gradients as elements and bring them to FCP? -
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Sometimes rendering to a 10-bit-per-channel codec (e.g. Blackmagic 10-bpc) lessens the banding when going to MPEG-2. You’d have to render the gradients first (before any other compression) to the 10-bpc codec. Then you might want to bring them into FCP in a 10-bpc timeline, then render that to 10-bpc before compressing to MPEG-2.
You might need to add a bit of noise to the gradient anyway, though. Hope that helps.
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Will Apple’s Uncompressed 10-bit codec do? I’m on a laptop.
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Sure, give it a go.
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