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  Correct Video Preview Setting with Blackmagic

  Posted by William Edwards on February 6, 2014 at 4:17 pm

  I’m doing a video preview to the monitor via a Blackmagic Extreme 3D card with SDI. It give me a couple different options to output, and I’m not sure which one to choose that would accurately reproduce my playback. There’s Blackmagic HD 23.976, but then there’s three options: 8bit, 10bit, and RGB. I’m going with 8 bit, right now, which is probably my source video. But my monitor can handle 10bit right? Maybe that’s better, or does it really matter? Would RGB be for non-broadcast projects?

  (My monitor is the Flanders Scientific CM170, and I’m running Win7)

  Ericbowen replied 12 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Ericbowen

  February 6, 2014 at 5:20 pm

  If the media is 10 bit then yes 10bit would be better. If not then don’t bother. The RGB is for film or web based content usually.

  Eric-ADK
  Tech Manager
  support@adkvideoediting.com

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