• Apple Final Cut Pro

  FCPX and XAVC – Color Depth

  Posted by Chuck Averil on May 23, 2014 at 2:56 pm

  Hello, I have a question about XAVC and colour depth. I am using the Sony F55 which is recording in XAVC at 100 mbps, color depth of 10-bits and 4:2:2 chroma. Right now, the only program I have to transcode this footage is FCPX. After Quicktimes are made with the XAVC codec, the colour depth comes up as “Millions of Colours”. Unless I am mistaken, XAVC should be “Trillions of Colours”. Does anyone know why my colour depth comes out this way?

  Chuck Averil replied 12 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erik Lindahl

  May 24, 2014 at 5:44 pm

  What are you transcoding them to?
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  Chuck Averil

  June 12, 2014 at 2:36 pm

  They are transcoded to XAVC QT’s in FCPX. FCPX doesn’t give me any options in the matter, it just starts transcoding immediately when I import the raw files.

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