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Ham

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I can’t capture to 10 bits because I don’t have an aja or other SD card simply a DV firewire capture card. The reason for working at 10 bit depth is that I have been told that while no video information is added to the image, processing at 10 bits yields less degradation of the image during processing because there is, for lack of a better phrase, more “digital overhead.” I know the same thing occurs in audio processing and working with 24 bit files in 32-bit float is pretty standard. It makes sense (sort of like higher precision in numbers when you carry out the calculations to the 10 decimal place as opposed to rounding to a whole number) to me but I may have been misinformed so anyone who can shed some light on this subject would be appreciated.

As for exported to uncompressed AVI, yes, it does create large files, but because I am working at 10-bit depth I don’t want the file to be recompressed in the DV codec, exporting to an intermediate AVI with all the processing such as dissolves, color correction so forth the above advantages are recieved. Going straight to DV using the DV codec won’t allow me to apply the corrections in a 10 bit color space. As I said, I could be wrong on this as I am fairly new to the whole process and would love to hear other thoughts.

Thanks again to all in advance