REMOVE COLOR BANDING IN ADOBE PREMIERE

A quick fix to color banding issues on Export in Adobe Premiere.
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[youngvisual]

How can I like this video several times because yeah bravo🎉🎉 it's straight forward and clear information without banding issues

[copernicub]

You won't believe it if I told you your video just saved a life .

[grahamsmith]

This seems to not have the same effect with h.264 which is what a majority of videos need exported as for web. The issue is even worse for me when using a solid gradient background, whether produced in premiere or brought in from a png or jpg. I simply cant get the hard lines to disappear. Am I shit out of luck outside of having the highest quality files possible for the videos? Seems crazy that I can't render out a smoothish gradient that isn't even changing at all.

[j.alexander]

Even this video has banding, specially here: 1:09 None of this options works in Premiere Pro in 2022, also... youtube requires H.264 not quicktime, and while TV screens, hold up well while still showing a bit of banding, playing H.264 videos on cellphones trigger a horrible banding, like intense, adding noise, checking use maximun render quality or render at maximun depth for H.264 are NOT solving the banding issue at all, specially for dark scenes.

[on-quest]

Definitely calling it chunky blunkies from now on 😆 Thanks for the tip, gonna try it on my next render. I do everything but the 16bit option so hopefully that's the golden ticket! 😄

[ChristopherDillman]

No dice for me. Yet this was an upscaled 1080p video (Set to Frame Size) in a 4K sequence project. Gonna have to go film grain to hide the bands.

[vatosgym]

Da man!!! Thank you so much, dip to black was doing my head in 🙏

[Yiannio]

You sir are a legend. Consider my stress dismissed

[Sober-MindedYT]

I'm making the video lesson for my geometry class, and i faced with same issue. You have helped me to deal with it. Thanks from all russian students 😉

[gnarcorpproductions]

What would you recommend for a gross yellow horizontal band that is caused by a combo of high shutter and bad lights? The duplicate layer/reduce opacity trick doesn't work for that. Thank you

[louieh]

You are amazing!!! I was struggling to figure out this since yesterday.

[shqipdonsalijaj]

Thanks for the tutorial but I need to export in h.264 and that option doesn't work so I fixed it by increasing the bitrate to 200 when exporting. The video was shot on Sony FX30, Slog 3, 4:2:2 at 200Mpbs, so maybe that was the reason the bending was gone

[MaxWilhelm-lf]

What do you do if you're exporting in H264? I believe there is a checkbox for Render at Maximum, but the depth is locked at 8bit for that format

[stevenybarra]

How can you do this in Windows? I have not been able to find the preset that has 8 vs 16 bit?

[dylanmalliaaudio]

Dude, this totally saved me - thank you!

[balrog]

You can also use the voukoder plugin.
Don't know if it's possible to get rid of compression artifacts and banding without using noise addition?

[Godluvsrachel]

Your video saved me, thank you so much!!

[adnan.a.nazzal]

Million thanks .... how i can make the 4K video smaller as file size, its 30 minutes episodes :)

[ivct]

But i have this issue in preview in premier pro, after colour grading.. what to do for this?

[alpinewonders]

Thanks for the video.
There is less sky banding in the 8 bit video footage from my Sony A7iii when I render it in 16 bit. (Seems counter-intuitive to me, as the original footage is only 8 bit)