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When to use 10-bit rendering
I’ve got a one hour film with XDCAM1080i50, HDV1080, HDV 720p25 and DV Pal in a ProRes422HQ timeline. I’ve been doing some testing with 10 bit versus 8 bit rendering in the video processing tab of the sequence settings.
If I use 8-bit, I get a lot more real time playback, my renders are much faster than 10-bit, but exporting reference movies takes much longer, and they are huge.
If I use 10-bit, timeline rendering takes longer and there is much more of it. On the other exporting a reference movie is quite fast (because I’ve rendered in the timeline), and the reference mov is comparatively quite small.
My thought is to cut using 8-bit, and switch to 10-bit whenever I have to send out an approval copy.
Is this feasible? Is there something esle I should consider? Or in is it 6 of one when all’s said and done?
The reason I’m exporting ref files is to send them to Compressor and then to DVD.
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2 Replies
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I’m not sure you gain anything rendering in 10 bit with material that was all shot 8 bit… Not as if you improve the video. Might make a difference with any CGI material, but other than that…
Jerry
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There is some uncompressed CGI material, but not much. So it sounds like I might want 10-bit when I’m finishing, but it’s not necessary before that.
I just found it odd that if I rendered at 10-bit and exported a reference mov, the file was relatively small, but if I rendered at 8-bit it was much bigger, which made me think that rendering to 8-bit was a waste of time.
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