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Who’s using 10-bit?
Anyone using FCP5 for 10-bit work? Is a hardware card required for this workflow?
How about Motion? I know it’s supporting 32-bit floating point with it’s latest release, but will it process 10-bit video natively without reducing it to 8-bit?
Thanks for the help!
Jeff
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3 Replies
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I’m using 10-bit only with FCP 5 and Tiger. You need a capture card that will support 10-bit (Like AJA’s Io, Kona2, or Decklink’s cards) to capture, but you can also import 10-bit uncompressed footage and work with it provided your drives are fast enough, and you have the appropriate 10-bit codec loaded. AJA has a free download called AJA KONA system test that will tell you how much data your drives are capable of writing per second and how many streams you can get in various resolutions.
I believe Motion 2 also supports 10-bit, because Apple’s video apps are resolution independent, from DV to HD 1080i. I have opened my 10-bit SD footage within motion with no problems.
-mjd
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Another 10 bit capture card option is the Aurora Pipe.
I wrote a review of the Pipe on the cow here
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[JLerner] “Anyone using FCP5 for 10-bit work? Is a hardware card required for this workflow?”
We edit exclusively in 10 bit. We bring everything in through SDI and use an AJA Io (highly recommended).
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com
http://www.insightproductions.com
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