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    Posted by Justin Heaney on April 23, 2005 at 2:32 pm

    I was wondering…..

    Why does the quicktime dialog in FCP not give a “trillions” option for those codecs that support trillions of colors?

    Also….. what is the Blackmagic 10bit trillions codec called? I seem to have downloaded three 8 bit, and two 10bit codecs from the blackmagic site, none of which appear to be the trillions codec.

    Thanks in advance

    Justin Heaney

    Justin Heaney replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jonathan Smiles

    April 23, 2005 at 11:06 pm

    FCP is a YUV app with the option of 32bit floating point renders, it will render directly to the Blackmagic 10bit codec using all 10bits the codec allows with 10bit or 32bit precision. So no trillions of colors mode.

    After Effects is an RGB app and works in either 8 or 16 bit modes, to get 10bit 4:2:2 YUV video you need to run AE in 16bit mode (Trillions of Colors) which the Blackmagic codec converts to 10bit YUV.

    Jonathan

    Jonathan Smiles
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    Digital Safari Ltd
    UK – Specialist Reseller
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  • Justin Heaney

    April 23, 2005 at 11:18 pm

    Thanks a lot Jonathan.

    I am slowly grasping how codecs work.

    Cheers

    Justin Heaney
    chch NZ

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