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August 21, 2017
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4k SLog3 Grading Problem

  • August 21, 2017
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I recently shot a couple test shots with my Sony FS7, I brought the footage into Premiere to do some grading and noticed some pretty awful artifacting in portions that had natural gradients from the light. The banding/artifacting is rather distracting and was even more noticeable when the camera moved at all. Even with Lumetri color correction OFF the file, the banding and compression appeared to be present (hard to tell with ungraded slog3 footage).

I first thought this was an issue with my camera, lens, or user error. Went back on a different day tried some new settings and got the same results.

I then put the footage through Quicktime to see if I could notice the banding in the ungraded footage, didn't see it there. Decided to put the footage into a different software to see if there were any issues with the footage after it was graded and after grading there was no banding/artifacting. I even pushed the footage to it's limits and didn't notice any artifacting.

I triple checked that the footage was only be distorted when in Premiere. Tried creating sequences of all different ratios, and making a sequence from the raw clip itself. No matter the amount of grading, the artifacting/banding still appears in the footage.

Has anyone else had a similar problem and did you find a solution for this? Am I missing something quite obvious?

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Correct answer chrisw44157881

dang, im good

"re-encode all your clips in AME right back to MXF.  That's right.  Select MXF op1a format and then the preset that matches what you shot.  The files will be almost exactly the same size, just a little off.  Import these files into Premiere and grade...the banding is GONE."

Sony FS7 Color Banding in Video Clips

Re: XAVC-I Transcode to ProRes Banding

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Legend
August 21, 2017

Recording in 10 bit?

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Inspiring
August 21, 2017

i vaguely remember a XAVC glitch where premiere's color engine for that format creates 8 bit banding. Does it appear if you first convert to cineform with prelude before importing into premiere?

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chrisw44157881Correct answer
Inspiring
August 21, 2017

dang, im good

"re-encode all your clips in AME right back to MXF.  That's right.  Select MXF op1a format and then the preset that matches what you shot.  The files will be almost exactly the same size, just a little off.  Import these files into Premiere and grade...the banding is GONE."

Sony FS7 Color Banding in Video Clips

Re: XAVC-I Transcode to ProRes Banding