Change Color Depth

pack wrote on 6/4/2003, 3:34 PM

How does one change the color bit depth in vegas video

it's fixed at 32. I can find any setting to change it to 24 or 16

Comments

FuTz wrote on 6/5/2003, 5:51 AM

I'd say you change bit depth when you *render* your project. Go into the Custom settings there (in the Render As window) and you will find it under Video tab if it's available in the format you want to render (for example: Quicktime format...). You can even go down to "8"...

jnkfl5 wrote on 9/24/2003, 11:11 AM

It's not possible. Vegas does not yet provide the capability to render video at anything below 24bit color. This capability is provided by every other professional level video editing software I've used and I hope it's something Vegas will incorporate in the next release.

FYI: The standard reply I've seen to this question has been to point you to the video tab or custom tab and tell you that if the codec supports lower bit depths, there will be an option for it here. That's WRONG.

The codec's job is to compress/decompress the video and they do not provide color depth resampling to the application. The quality slider here referrs to the compression level, and if a lossy codec, the degredation of video quality based on your setting.

Hope this helps.