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Digital Cut Output Mode question
I am working on an Avid Adrenaline Media Composer is SD.
Can someone explain to me what the difference is in switching the Digital Cut output mode from RT DNA, I think you have the option of switching between 8 bit and 16 bit…. what is this referring to and what is the optimum setting? -
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Hi,
The options you refer are two seperate things. The RT DNA/RT DV25/DV25 options refer to whether or not you are using the DNA box to output a signal, a firewire cable through the DNA box or just a direct firewire connection. The numbers available are 8 or 10. This is the RGB bit depth the theory of this is best taught through further reading (look for a book called the art and science of digital compositing), but essentially 10 bit gives a huge amount of additional variations of colour fro mwhat 8 bit offers, in fact the figure which i cannot recall off hand are surprisingly high for a 2bit per channel increase. Getting back to the issue of 8 or 10 for your digital cut, i could be wrong as im not much of a DV fan but unless your using a format like SX,Digibeta and DVC pro 50 your not going to get any benefit from 10 bit, and also you would need to be creating MXF media instead of OMF in the AVID to take advantage of the 1:1 10b option.
Hope that helps
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Cybelle,
Sorry just read my earlier post, hope it made sense i was rushing before a meeting.
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Yes, no it was very interesting and I will buy the book you mentioned. I was a little confused. I thought it had something to do with outputting at HD or something so I appreciate it. I will look into it more. Cheers,
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