Comments on: How to Remove Banding Artifacts in After Effects

By: offthesky

offthesky — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:30:02 +0000

excellent shit… the noise technique worked like a charm!!

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By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 07:41:45 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

By: francoe

francoe — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:05:26 +0000

I think that no special monitor is needed.
If you are not a pro that can buy a very hi system, you can´t calibrate an usual customer monitor (I mean, you can try it, the old adobe gamma, and that kind of calibration software can help, but are just usefull toys). A normal lcd is fine for me.
In the other hand, the broadcast haven’t eyes. So if you can familiarizate with a graphical data representation, in example a vectorcope, have a good start point.

By: Kolenik

Kolenik — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:44:11 +0000

Hey Nick! Same problem last week with banding with ramp. I used ramp for background for motion dvd menu but after rendering to MPEG2-DVD almost full quality it looks horrible on TV. I will try to use this great tip to avoide banding. I will appreciate some adjusting graphic tip for TV screens. It just 8bpc and can’t use 16 or more. Thanks for sharing and keep your great tips!

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:42:53 +0000

I don’t suggest 32bpc if you don’t need it. It is a bit overkill and only produces good results if you are using 32bpc stocks, and even then it is quite specialized. 16 works great.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:41:18 +0000

Very good point. My monitor produces about 200% more banding than most CRTs or my laptop. Just keep in mind what the viewer will be using; if it is for the web a huge part of your audience is probably on macbooks.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:37:21 +0000

Import into after effects and apply these techniques.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:35:37 +0000

‘Noise’ renders about a million times faster than grain, with the same results. Also, applying the ‘dither’ transition sets up a little bit of a de-band thing automatically. Just set the ‘transition completion’ to about 95% (or play with it).

And if you want to take out a bit of the noise or grain without more banding apply a little bit of the ‘Gaussian Blur’. NOT FAST BLUR.

-Spencer

By: johans

johans — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:36 +0000

im having banding artifacts when rendering clips in c4d, especially when i used gradients for backgrounds, is there a way to remove those bandings??..

i haven’t find any ways, i did explore for ways to solve it but i just can’t, im new to c4d, just a month, need help pease!!…thank you!=)