Ok, I understand most of that. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me out. Much appreciated!

Thank you very much for your input! Most of it makes sense. 1. Colour cycling: this term usually means colour animation within 8-bit graphics, so it doesn't apply here. No idea what that means! 2. Banding: we're working in 24bit RGB here, 8 bit per channel. This means 256 possible colour values per ...

Thanks for the input.
Outputting as PNG looks the same as the the uncompressed 'animation' codec, so looks ok, but some slight banding. Compressed to h.264 it still looks bad.
Am I maybe asking too much? Is it just that people don't tend to use dark gradients in the animation world?

Hey, this is my first post, and my first animation! I would be grateful for some input here! I did a few searches on here but couldn't find the same query. The main issue is my background, which is made up of some blurred shapes which cycle colours (slowly!). All the colours are fairly dark, and the...