Ironically monitor at float creates banding, 8 bit doesn’t because 8 bit 
dithers but the others don’t.
The dithering was added to avoid this sort of confusion because of (some) 
monitors being 8 bit.

H
On 14 Jan 2015, at 08:39, Adrian Cruceru <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi J
> 
> You did right, the sampler tool is what you need and unfortunately is looks 
> like your monitor is picky :(
> 
> A
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Jason P Nguyen <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Damn,  it might be the monitor.  Moved the viewer to my dell monitor and it 
> doesn't look banding at all. 
> Viewer pref is float.
> 
> Hey Adrian,  which curve type in the curve tool do I need to sample,  
> intensity, exposure,  or Luma? They all just gave me rob numbers w/o the 
> visual curve. . I plugged the sampler node under the ramp instead,  and it 
> gave visual graph.  Looks smooth . . So I would say the monitor,  even on 
> client's side
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> J
> 
> On Jan 13, 2015 3:49 PM, "Adrian Cruceru" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry about the advice on the curve tool, you need the sampler instead, if 
> will quickly show you if you have real banding in the actual data which is 
> simply repeating pixels nothing more.
> You can test the sampler with a ramp and a posterize tool too see what 
> banding will look like in  the analyzed curve
> Hope it helps
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adrian
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:34 PM, chris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/13/15 at 11:23 PM, [email protected] (Jason P Nguyen) wrote:
> The client also saw the banding from the grad i had on a sky.
> 
> hmm, are you seeing banding in the ramp/mask falloff or in the sky?
> 
> if it's only in the sky it could well be an issue with the footage (8bit 
> and/or compressed).  if you see it in the alpha itself then most likely a 
> screen issue, but as others have said, plotting a curve is a good way to make 
> sure.
> 
> chris
> 
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