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  Decklink and AfterEffects – Video Preview

  Posted by Christopher Tay on November 17, 2005 at 4:31 am

  In After Effects Video Preview, should I set the Decklink to RGB, 8bit or 10bit for monitoring on an SDI video monitor ?

  I read somewhere that it should be set to RGB, and if that is the case, what are the implications if I set to either 8bit or 10bit ?

  Thanks,

  -chrispy

  Luke Maslen replied 20 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Kristian Lam

  November 17, 2005 at 6:35 am

  Hi Chrispy,

  It should be set to RGB.

  It shouldn’t work if it’s set to 8-bit / 10-bit. But if it did, then you’re lucky. 😉

  regards

  Kristian
  Blackmagic Design
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  Christopher Tay

  November 18, 2005 at 2:46 am

  Hi Kristian,

  If 8bit/10bit doesn’t work, then is there a reason why it is available as a choice to the user ?

  I’m trying to understand a little better but I thought that we should be viewing 8bit or 10bit when going to a video monitor, instead of RGB. Appreciate if you can advise on this.

  Thanks,

  -chrispy
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  Luke Maslen

  November 18, 2005 at 4:53 am

  Hi Chris,

  It looks as though After Effects just displays whatever video output components in finds regardless of whether they are YUV or RGB. After Effects works in RGB mode and then DeckLink performs a color space conversion before the video is output as YUV from the DeckLink card. So RGB is the correct setting to choose and is what we mention on page 19 of the PDF manual.

  Regards,

  Luke Maslen
  Blackmagic Design

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