Banding is STILL an issue with XAVC-I (Sony FS7 10 bit footage)
Just like it says. Premiere is NOT handing the codec properly. I have the "max bitrate" box ticked. But this isn't an 8bit vs 10 bit problem. 8 bit footage bands just as 8 but footage should. 10 bit footage is better as expected but STILL has banding. Almost like instead of 1024 steps of black to white, Premiere treats it like there is 500 or so steps...sort of sitting in the middle between 8bit and 10bit. Here's screengrabs of the issue...and to see how it SHOULD look, there's a Resolve 14 screenshot in there too. The Resolve grade is smooth and beautiful. Any of the effects in Premiere make the same contrasted grade have banding. Here's the link: Premiere Banding Problem - Google Drive I'll also point out the Lumetri looks by far the worst. A noisy mess.
There are threads and posts in other places about this issue going back A YEAR and this problem still isn't fixed. Oh and by the way, if I transcode the footage in AME into DNxHQ and attempt to grade, the banding is STILL THERE. If I output to Prores while recording from the camera, the problems is NOT there. It's clearly an issue with the codec.
I would love to get Adobe's take on this. I'll be calling their help line support Monday and I'll report back the findings. But if it's a KNOWN PROBLEM for over a year....what gives?
When is Adobe going to fix this? Dang I might need to find another NLE after 10 years of using Premiere. SMH
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