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Rendering at a higher bit depth - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Hidden Gems
Rendering at a higher bit depth
- This hidden gem is all about the bit depth and rendering; how to get more quality out of After Effects when you render without slowing yourself down while you're working. After Effects defaults to a color bit depth of 8 bits per channel, R, G, and B, and alpha as well. For a lot of projects, that's okay. However, you will occasionally have issues where banding or posterization of the colors may occur with a slower bit depth. This project's one of them. Let me turn off my other layers, focus on this background layer, and turn off its effects for now so you can see it. This is a very moody background that includes just ripples of water being reflected on a lake. If I temporarily increase the brightness by adjusting the exposure of this composition, you'll see that the colors are actually rather posterized. Well as it turns out, these posterized colors are not a fault with the original clip. They're a fault of working in 8 bit per channel mode. If I was to hold down Option on Mac, or…