Remove banding from gradient light

How the heck can I remove banding from light gradient? I watched over 100 tutorials about this and yet not a single one works for my case!!!!!
I have a light set in dark red color over a solid layer. That creates a color gradient. But it's so blocky that messes up the whole video.
My color depth is 32 bpc.
I tried adding noise 5-10% (result:nothing)
I added some boxing blur (result:nothing)
In preview color seems (not sure about that) to be ok but when saving it into mp4 then Ι get everything messed up.
My output options:
H.264
24 frames
profile: high
level:4
bitrate settings:vbr,1pass
I don't know what to do!! I want a smooth gradient light on the solid layer without all this blocky look! why is it so difficult to have?!
layers:
light & solid layer

Thank you guys but nothing is helpfull.
1. AE 9.0.0
2. whe you ask for specific information then be specific so I can understand. You are the experts but you have to deal with people who don't even know what a pixel is, like me.
3. Adobe Media Encoder CS4? That's a lot of reading there. I don't undersand the 90% of the AE terminology used. Is this AME a program or something? I learned the basics in After Affects by just messsing around with the program, so can you please provide me the very basics of what should I do with AME? I just want to make my video not to get a Phd in AME!!
So I am stuck in the last step "make a movie" .. How the AME will help me? Do I have to set up something there and then to select it from After Effects? I don't even know where to begin!! It's like it's 1000 times more difficult to render the movie than making the movie and the effects :/

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