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Color depth
What is the best color depth to render for Youtube? For broadcast projects I’ve always used 8-bit color depth. For Youtube the thing is different I suppose. What would you use? 32-bit floating point VIDEO LEVELS or FULL RANGE?
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To simplify this question. When do you use 32-bit color depth?
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[Grzegorz Kwiatkowski] “To simplify this question. When do you use 32-bit color depth?”
First of all, that setting is NOT color depth. It is Pixel Format and it indicates whether you want Vegas to perform video processing (compositing, scaling, previewing, rendering, and most video plug-ins) using 8-bit or 32-bit, floating-point arithmetic internally.
You would only use 32-bit pixel format when working with 10-bit YUV input/output or when using xvYCC/x.v.Color media or if you are experiencing color banding when working with 8-bit media and you need to smooth it out. Otherwise there is no reason to use 32-bit pixel format.
The 32-bit floating point settings allow greater precision for processing video, but require significantly more processing power than working with 8-bit video so you should only use it if you “need” to, not because you “want” to.
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