[Marie Clyde]

In regards to the ‘merging’, I have a video of smoke screened against a still photograph background that eventually disappears and all that’s left is the still photograph.

Thanks for the export information, I do appreciate it.

[Marie Clyde]

Thanks for responding.

The background was lit with a spotlight, creating a light/bright green center that gradates out to a dark green at the top of the frame. The banding occurs in the gradient background of the image.

1) I’m doing my editing in photoshop CS5 extended.

2) My still photographs that I added to the Video are PSD files.

3) The still images are 768px x 1024px @ 300 dpi. I resized them from the original size (18×24@300dpi).

The video I imported was shot at the highest resolution possible on the 5D Mark II.

Today, I was able to get some of the banding to go away by adding noise and adjusting the saturation on the background. Unfortunately, when I imported the file to iMovie (to add music), the quality I had gained by adding the noise and adjusting the Hue/Saturation in Photoshop fell apart and the banding came back. I can’t figure out why the quality would change so much just by taking it into iMovie to add music.

I realize iMovie and Photoshop Extended aren’t the best programs to be editing/adding music in, but that is what I have at this time.

I will check out the book you recommended. In the meantime, any advice would be appreciated.