Exports converted the float frame to 8 bits by plain rounding, so a smooth
gradient rendered at 16 or 32 bpc came out as flat bands, the same as at
8 bpc: raising the depth changed nothing visible. After Effects dithers
colours converted to 8 bpc for render and export; do the same.
- raster: dither_u8 and Image::to_rgba8_dithered / to_rgba8_over_dithered
round each channel up or down against a hash of the pixel position with
a fixed seed (deterministic, no clock or global RNG). A value already on
an 8-bit code, as everything rendered at 8 bpc is, is unchanged.
- export: Cx::pixels dithers the colour for every 8-bit output (stills,
H.264, ProRes, HEVC, AV1, VP9); GIF keeps plain rounding (palette).
- export: the Render Settings' Color Depth now overrides the project's
depth for the whole render instead of only quantising the finished
frame, so a 16 bpc render of an 8 bpc project keeps its precision.
Tests: crates/export/tests/it/banding.rs (ramp export at 8/16 bpc and with
Color Depth overrides), raster unit tests for dither_u8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FYXhNN7W7nB6sKjwwU7CDM
H.264 and ProRes exports of a 60-frame comp (several render batches, a
rotating stroked ring, a fading solid at a fractional position, a
Screen-mode shape, 8 bpc) must keep the exact bytes main wrote before the
two previous commits.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Dev profile: line tables only for workspace crates, no debug info for dependencies
* xtask ci: dev-profile gate, nextest, tests without examples, wasm --keep-going
* One integration-test binary per crate
* xtask ci: run effectcraft-gpu's shared-device tests in one cargo test process
* xtask ci: run every stage and report all failures
* xtask ci: name the stage type (clippy type_complexity)
* xtask ci: run every test pass and report all failures
* cargo fmt
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