[Chris Humphreys]

Thanks Shane, I’m actually reading a post you left on the Apple discussion page that spells much of this out. Tons of good info in that post:

https://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12912111

I understand what the problems are of course, but can’t figure out a fast way to explain this all to the client who thinks I’m saying Kodak. Ha!

Chris

[Chris Humphreys]

Dave is right….as always. I rarely edit audio in After Effects–very clumsy and difficult to get just right. Take the rendered video file into your favorite NLE and then work with audio. I typically rough out the audio in the NLE and export a track to use in After Effects as a reference for timing out effects, then go back into NLE (Avid or FCP are my usuals) and fine tune the audio on a final pass.

[Chris Humphreys]

Ok I got most of the banding reduced by about 80-90 percent, so now it is at an acceptable point at least. Thank for the posts. I got some good advice from a great guy at Film Workers in Chicago that along with knowing I would need to add noise to the AE comps worked fine. I used an adjustment layer on each comp, and applied noise at either 3, 4 or 5, depending on the shot, and unchecked color noise. Then re-rendered everything, it look MUCH better although not perfect. Next time I will insist on having a little more say on how it’s shot. Turns out it was shot on Panasonic 2000 and captured on P2 cards, so it was 8 bit from the beginning. Then the Avid (8 bit), which made me leave the project settings in AE at 8 bit. I then rendered using Animation to avoid any further compression and this made a hugh difference.

Thanks again for the responses! I’ll be back I’m sure.