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Hi,
I just rendered out an image sequence at 1980 x 1020. The image has a slight gradient from top to bottom. I set the render to .png and I am getting bars of gradient rather than a smooth transition. Hard to see but they are there. I know this as when I import into Vegas and try to render a transition, (fade from black), the bars are being picked up and made worse. Can anyone advise?
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DK wrote:Hi,
I just rendered out an image sequence at 1980 x 1020. The image has a slight gradient from top to bottom. I set the render to .png and I am getting bars of gradient rather than a smooth transition. Hard to see but they are there. I know this as when I import into Vegas and try to render a transition, (fade from black), the bars are being picked up and made worse. Can anyone advise?
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I use a similar pipeline and I don't see bars .
Maybe you could try a little noise on that layer?

I added a noise grain level of 10 and still get the bars though the noise?
Anyone have any ideas what this might be? The evidence is there?

D.K

Do you have an example file I could see?

Hi Wes,
I was just preparing the file for you when I noticed I had replaced the sky background with a .png file to save on size. It was the .png file that was causing the bars as I had zoomed in quite close. My bad.

Thanks for responding.
D.K

Glad to hear you got it sorted, David.

I was also trying to keep memory use down as I was experiencing AS crashes using multi thread rendering. Apparently there may be a small memory leak which I reported on Mantis. Funny how a few little bugs like that can get you extra edgy I totally forgot I replaced the vector background with a png

Cheers and thanks again Wes.
D.K

Thanks Chucky...I feel a bit like Mulder..."The evidence is there" LOL!

Cheers
D.K