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10-bit down to 8-bit
In a big panic to get a show to broadcaster and I had some major problems when an ARRAY died with my 10-bit uncompressed 48 minute program on it. Fortunately I had my 10-bit elements (film-looked video, animations and effects) backed up on firewire drives. The only other ARRAY I had in the shop was on older Rorke with 4 x 18GB seagates in it. So here I had a 95gig 10-bit program that had to fit on to roughly 70 gigs of drive. I rendered the program down to 8-bit and was able to fit it on the ARRAY and get the project out.
Now my question is what did I lose in quality? Everything seemed to look fine going on to D-Beta and through the NTSC monitor.
The funny thing is that the show will probably get bumped to Beta SP when the Broadcaster gets the master.
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DK Davis / Editor/ Post Super
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2 Replies
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Don’t worry, 8-bit’s still very good. If you don’t have a lot of layers with a compositing programm you won’t see the difference.
Rainer
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There are some banding issues sometimes with 8 bit color ramps… but if you don’t have them…
Jerry
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