Weirdness on Export

[Sam Comer]

It won’t look any different, I promise.

Maybe this will help.

I’m getting the impression that people don’t believe me when I say it’s not a compressed H.264, or that I don’t know what I’m talking about.

Here is the info window from Quicktime –

Exported directly from Motion as a ProRes HQ.

Project settings:

[Jeremy Garchow]

I promise that it might. I was going to check it in a 10bit pipe.

Banding is present on 8bit displays (computer monitors).

If you export a float image out of Ae (make a radial gradient) you will see banding.

Here’s a radial gradient out of FCPX. It looks fantastical on my broadcast monitor via AJA. No banding, smooth gradient.

When I open it on my desktop computer monitor, it is all banded up, which I’m sure it looks the same on your monitor, too.

6623_test.mov.zip

Here’s the exact same generator, with a bit of noise added. It looks OK on my broadcast monitor, but looks much better on my computer desktop monitor (much less banding).

6624_testnoise.mov.zip

Here is the settings I used. This filter is also available in Motion:

addnoise_settings.png

You can tweak this setting to taste.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Even a compressed screen grab shows the difference side by side:

sidebyside.png

[Sam Comer]

Many thanks for the help!