[Tig] color (was FT, that is)

[Patrick Inhofer]

On May 1, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Tyler Hawes wrote:

> This might be bad. AFAIK, Final Cut Pro renders all RGB material in  
> 8-bit
> still. As long as you don't alter 10-bit material, it's fine, but  
> as soon as
> you add a dissolve, motion effect, title, etc., that section is now  
> going
> through an 8-bit render pipeline. That is not acceptable for my  
> work and
> probably a lot of others. So I wonder, if FCP is handling the  
> resize, have
> they addressed this 8-bit render bottleneck?

For RGB workflows it looks like you'll have to EDL back to the  
conform tool of your choice, following the same workflow as under  
Final Touch.

If they improved FCP's handling of RGB they're not touting it and  
it's not mentioned in the tech specs.

The problem with the Geometery Room in Color was with interlaced  
material (I've seen it, it's terrible). The folks using it on  
progressive codecs seemed to be happy with the quality of its  
rendered repo's and Color still supports 2K DPX and Cineon files with  
up to 32-bit rendering (I haven't seen it, so I can't give an  
informed opinion of the quality of those repo's).

HTH and happy I can share a sliver after having lurked here for such  
a long time...

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