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16 bit vs 8 bit
Hey guys
quick question… what is the real world difference between 16bit and 8bit colour mode. i’m doing a project animating photoshop files in after effects and then rendering them out to 10 bit uncompressed quicktime files. am i going to get any significant quality difference working in the 16bit colour space?
thanks in advance
brad -
4 Replies
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Yes. You don’t get banding in gradients, your edges are cleaner, and color corrections hold truer without turning to quantized looking mush.
Chris Smith
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More color depth creates smoother color blending, blurs, more precise color correction and that kind of thing. You can get away with 8 bit many times, but with better hardware and HD this is getting rarer and for quality reasons you should work with higher bit depths to maintain maximum fidelity of you stuff.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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So, here’s the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit as illustrated by Shine applied to a white solid. In the 8-bit example, you can see how the effect is degraded by banding artifacts along the gradient.
Good luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
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thanks for the response guys… that perfectly answers my question
thanks
brad
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