Stop Banding After You Grade AI Skies
Generated skies posterize under contrast. Use a 10-bit intermediate, dither, and a stills-plus-motion checklist before you add grain or reroll.
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Run a Broadcast-Safe Pass Before Delivery
RGB and composite illegal values still fail cable and FAST QC. A Rec.709 16–235 checklist, a legalizer after the grade, and a stills compare to keep the look.
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Build a Show LUT for Mixed AI Footage
A CDL-plus-LUT recipe so mixed-model shots sit on one timeline, a stills chart to test it, and the rule for when to regenerate instead.
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False Color Before You Touch the Grade
A 30-second false-color pass that flags clipped highlights and muddy faces before any LUT, with the IRE bands to watch on generated skin and chrome.
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Grade Generated Footage on Rec.709 Scopes
Generated clips arrive display-referred. Read Rec.709 waveform, RGB parade and vectorscope, then grade exposure, balance, sat, look.
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Grade HDR Once, Keep the SDR Downmap
Grade Rec.2020 PQ or HLG once, roll off highlights, and QC two stills of the same frame so the SDR YouTube downmap does not crush the HDR master.
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Match Grain, Sharpness, and Blacks at Cuts
Park on the splice and match black point, grain size, sharpening, and cadence so a generated insert stops announcing itself next to live action.
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Legal Range vs Full Range in Delivery
Models often write full-range RGB into Rec.709 tags. Legalize after the grade, never before, and confirm 16-235 on a waveform before delivery.
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Read Skin Tones on the Vectorscope
Generated faces sit off the skin-tone line. Read the vectorscope, then use hue and sat moves to unify a sequence without running a beauty pass.
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Ten-Bit Intermediates to Stop Grade Banding
8-bit timelines stripe skies after a mild S-curve. Make 10-bit 4:2:2 the house intermediate, and keep stills that prove the banding was the file.
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A creative LUT will not fix mismatched shots
A look LUT on unnormalised clips keeps the mismatch and tints it. Neutralise each shot, match to a master, then grade for style.
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Matching generated footage to real camera footage
Mixed edits break on grain, grade, focal length and motion blur. The order to fix them in, and the one thing you cannot repair in post.
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Skin tones jump when you mix video models
Each video model picks its own white balance and skin rendering. Normalise every clip against scopes before you grade, or mixed-model cuts will jump.
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The order of finishing passes: clean, then scale
Going straight to 4K amplifies artifacts you could have removed cheaply. The pass order that works, and what each pass can and cannot fix.
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What a Grade Can and Cannot Rescue in AI Footage
A color grade redistributes existing pixel values — it fixes cast and continuity, not content errors, and can surface banding in compressed AI clips.
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