viscid pecan
My biggest problem so far is that when I render a image sequence, the background keeps a very nice background as it should. However, when I am converting it into a mp4 or mov in davinci resolve, it gets a weird visible outline which doesn't look good at all (shown in the example here)
meanwhile the image sequence have a much more cleaner background
This also applied with exr format
sand lance
That looks like compression. You might need to make the MP4 less compressed. I'm not sure how to change setting like this in resolve. but you can use the blender video sequence editor to import your sequence and export as MP4 at a "lossless" quality if you wanted it to be perfect
summer hollow
It's banding and it happens because MP4 doesn't support 16/32 bit. It's 8bit so you have a fairly limiting color space which means the transition between minor value changes is harsh especially if you have a smooth gradient.
8 bit = 256 values in each channel
16 bit = 65536
ProRes is 10/12 bit which should fix the banding or you use some noise to make the banding less visible
Or use DNxHr as a file format.
But the files can get large which goes for ProRes and DNx and the play back might be choppy depending on your hardware.
Also YouTube recommends to use MP4 so I would guess they only support 8bit
viscid pecan
Is there a common video format which does support 16 bit
summer hollow
no because no device supports it and the files would be way too huge so playback, disk speed and disk space would be another problem
viscid pecan
Alright, thank you