transcoding 8 bit to 10 bit suddenly will improve color correction?

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March 4, 2018
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I keep reading articles all over the web claiming that if someone transcodes their 8 bit camera footage to 10 bit it somehow magically makes the colors pop and color correction is easier. I don't see how this is possible when the original is already 8 bit. The only thing I do know transcoding does is it creates timecode, smoother playback and sometimes faster renders

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Correct answer excited_Genie16B8

You won't improve the original. But the effects you use may produce better results when used on 10 bit footage.

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excited_Genie16B8Correct answer

Legend

You won't improve the original. But the effects you use may produce better results when used on 10 bit footage.

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Offbeat Bryce ProductionsAuthor

Inspiring

so once I have my picture locked should I export it to say Cineform then do the effects?

R Neil Haugen

Legend

so is float what the IRE levels really are or 8 bit correct? I have an field monitor I use when I record that shows IRE levels via the built in waveform monitor. It seems that for my field monitor 8 bit setting in lumetri matches what my field monitor shows.

Float shows the media in the processing space, as the effects are currently being seen. And as it will try & export out to, really.

8-bit might more closely mimic what you saw in your field monitor.

And note ... no two scope setups will show exactly the same numbers ... hopefully they're close, but one might show the the peak in one from at say 97 of 100, and another at 98 of 100. Or in 8-bit terms, roughly 250 versus 252.

I like the float while I'm working better.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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