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Anyone working with 10 bit video in Motion?
Anyone here using FCP5 with Motion 2.0 (10 bit)???
I understand that 10-bit video support is new for 2.0? Is it slow as molasses? I wouldn’t imagine it would be speedy when working with 10 bit video.
Thanks for any input.
Jeff
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7 Replies
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16 bit isn’t slow. 32 bit float is very slow.
Hope that helps! 🙂
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You can disable float preview in the Canvas which will give 8-bit speed, then turn it on for rendering before output.
Jim Kanter,
Digital Film Institute
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I did not know that. Wonderful!
Thanks
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Hello Scot and Renee,
Are you working with Floating Point bit depth sequences or using the float render to improve 10/8 bit quicktimes? Scot you said your 16 bit renders were much faster than 32 bit float? Do you mind sharing how fast each renders was and the specs on your hardware including your graphics card? It would be great to compare user experiences on different cards with float footage.
Thanks in advance!
Gary -
I haven’t rendered any projects in 16 bit. I did some basic trials with existing projects and with particle emitters.
The first thing I did when I got Motion 2 was I put a fog particle on the stage and played it. I then switched the project to 16 bit and the fog looked noticeably better, and it played at the same rate, real time, more or less. When I switched it to 32 bit float, the fog dropped down to seconds per frame.
My system is a dual 2.5 Ghz G5
OS X 10.4.1
nVidia 6800 Ultra 256 meg
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In my experience, the NVidia 6800 runs very speedily with 16 bit float, almost as fast as 8 bit. 32 bit is fair bit slower than 16 on the 6800.
All ATI cards run a lot slower in 16 bit or 32 bit float than in 8 bit.If you’re doing work in float, I strongly recommend a 6800 and running in 16 bit.
Warp
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Thanks Scot and Warp,
Warp do you mind sharing your system specs and the performance you got using 16 and 32 bit float? Are you getting real time on 16 bit float?
Thanks in advance!
Gary
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