Video banding issue

Does any one have any good solutions for video banding?

I keep getting bands mainly in gradients in backgrounds behind subjects or in sunset/sunrise sky footage. I'll even see it occasionally in graphic files/animations with gradient BGs with an alpha channel (in various picture/video formats). I transcode my footage to Apple ProRes 422, then export for the web as H.264 MP4s. However the banding happens while editing, well before exporting.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Try switching the timeline options to 10-bit.

All the best,

Tom

Add Grain & tweak to taste

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There used to be a "Reduce Banding" filter in Motion 2 but I can't seem to find it in Motion 4...

But yes - basically what Joey said - you need to add a "dithered" noise that spreads bits of adjacent colours into one another to create the appearance of a smoother gradient.

Alternatively use 10bit acquisition/creation, edit and delivery.



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Ben King Wrote:
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> There used to be a "Reduce Banding" filter in
> Motion 2 but I can't seem to find it in Motion
> 4...

It's in the Color Correction group of filters (in Motion 4).



-Dave

Cheers Dave - the search wasn't working in Motion...


...I was almost considering starting another ProKit thread



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