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8 bit vs. 10 bit
Having read a few posts about 8bitvs.10 bit I think I still need some advice:
We’re shooting with Cinealta F900 (that’s 8 bit), editing in Matrox Axio HD (8 or 10 bit) and finally screening HD Mpeg2 or H.264(BluRay+HD Projector). My first thought was, without doubt, 8 bit, since 10 bit won’t improve the quality of the native HDCAM. But it seems that I will definitely get a better quality working in 10 bits when it comes to grading and color correction, isn’t that true? The question is: won’t all that improvements in grading and cc dissapear when I compress all the stuff to MPEG2 or H.264 or simply use a LCD display? Isn’t it better to do all the process in 8 bit so that I’ll always have a more accurate reference of what the final video will look like?Thanks in advance
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The adjustments made while in 10 bit mode will still benefit the quality of the final footage, particularly if you feed your MPEG encoder with a 10 bit original either from the PPro timeline into the Adobe Media Encoder or feed another encoder with a 10 bit master file.
It’s true that going back to 8 bit for playout won’t maintain all the detail you see in 10 bit, but the quality of the final image will still be better if you don’t drop to 8 bit before you do your final encode.
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