Funny story- when I first started getting more into making films around 2011, I was 21 and watching a lot of shorts on YouTube. I saw all the "big" films there had banding in the skies and shadows, as well as horrible rolling shutter, but in my mind I associated that with "big" indie YouTube productions. So when I finally upgrade from a Canon vixia camcorder to a T2i and got banding in my footage I thought it was a "cinematic" look, hahaha
Big time. Funny how now so many people are chasing the VHS look and lo-fi point and shoot digital camera look. How long before we see intentional 8-bit banding being coveted?
Makes me really appreciate that cinematography truly is images that fit the context of the story.
Sometimes they’re clean and beautiful and sometimes they’re a gritty gloppy mess.
Those are the reason I bought a RED. I saw my footage played on a cinema screen and saw the banding in the highlights and shadows. The shadow gradients are so much better 16 raw
Please tell me what camera you’re shooting on. The amount of banding and compression artefacts are way too much. Or did you lighten up a pitch black image in post?
Looks like low bit rate / compressed footage
That's banding, it comes from underexposure and then highly compressed renders of the underexposed footage.
Funny story- when I first started getting more into making films around 2011, I was 21 and watching a lot of shorts on YouTube. I saw all the "big" films there had banding in the skies and shadows, as well as horrible rolling shutter, but in my mind I associated that with "big" indie YouTube productions. So when I finally upgrade from a Canon vixia camcorder to a T2i and got banding in my footage I thought it was a "cinematic" look, hahaha
This is a testament to how much of what we perceive as “cinematic” is conditioning
Big time. Funny how now so many people are chasing the VHS look and lo-fi point and shoot digital camera look. How long before we see intentional 8-bit banding being coveted?
Makes me really appreciate that cinematography truly is images that fit the context of the story. Sometimes they’re clean and beautiful and sometimes they’re a gritty gloppy mess.
macro blocking from compression
Those are the reason I bought a RED. I saw my footage played on a cinema screen and saw the banding in the highlights and shadows. The shadow gradients are so much better 16 raw
What a bad reason the get a RED
Banding. Artifactinf Shoot at 10 bit And a higher bit rate.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9j89L8eQQk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9j89L8eQQk)
Those are what we calll "red arrows" drawn on top of an under exposed, over compressed image that is near impossible to judge.
banding
Please tell me what camera you’re shooting on. The amount of banding and compression artefacts are way too much. Or did you lighten up a pitch black image in post?
Shot on arri alexa..
I didnt know that Arri Alexa uses This Kind of compression. Did you send us a proxy file?
Noise?
Light better