[Nat Jencks]

Interesting, I do not get a smoother transition when using the Solid Composite effect. If I do the same transition (from black to 30% gray over 10 seconds) using both methods, I get the same result, i.e. major stepping as it moves through certain places in the gradient.

Also, 16bit of color depth per channel should be WAY more than enough to prevent this type of posterization / stepping. Im wondering if it is simply my 8-bit display?

Thanks for the feedback Kevin!
best
-Nat

[Nat Jencks]

My project is set to 16-bit… I just tried setting the project to 32-bit and using the hue/saturation effect which is a 32-bit effect, and got a similar result…

Hmm…

It’s super easy to see if you take black and change to something like 18% gray over the course of 5 seconds.

[Nat Jencks]

Thanks for your help!

When I doubled the frame rate of the comp, for some reason AFX is just displaying either the even or odd fields.

I ended up de-interlacing the footage externally, and just importing as 59.94, doing my work, and then re-interlacing on export.

Thanks!
-Nat