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Eugenia wrote on 1/15/2010, 12:17 AM
As I show here, 32bit is better, but it's not really needed by normal users. I'm doing some heavy stuff, and I don't use it either. Good to have, but not must have for amateurs.
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2009/09/20/32bit-grading-lighting-processing/
eightyeightkeys wrote on 1/15/2010, 7:29 AM
Yes, I see Eugenia. That's a very good tutorial !

What I am wondering, at my level of editing, is if the pro version will result in much better pan & zoom resolution, improved colour correction, etc... Not only that, but, since PC's are 32 bit floating point native, wouldn't the PC just generally work better and faster ?

After all, even amateurs such as myself, put a ton of time into editing and sometimes the results (ant crawl on still image pan & zoom for example) are disappointing.
Eugenia wrote on 1/15/2010, 11:07 AM
No. 32bit processing is 5 times slower. Not faster. It's more bytes to crunch. It has nothing to do with the PC's 32bitness.

I'd have to re-iterate that unless you're doing Hollywood or other major Pro work, you don't really need 32bit processing.