How does Vegas handle YUV source?

Matt_Reason wrote on 7/7/2005, 5:28 PM

Hi there,

I'm capturing my video with the Huff YUV codec. From there I would like to bring it into Vegas for editing and use the DebugMode Frame Server to feed my encoding app.

From the documentation, it looks like Vegas only uses the RGB colorspace. This means that unless it is an oversight in the documentation, Vegas will import the YUV video and do a color conversion to RGB, which will then be converted back to YUV upon encoding. If that’s the case, using Vegas will degrade the quality of the encodes.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Thanks in advance,

Matt

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 7/7/2005, 5:41 PM

You may find some help here:

Which render types ARE in the YUV catagory?

Matt_Reason wrote on 7/7/2005, 5:51 PM

That discusses video leaving Vegas.

What I'm interested in is how Vegas handles YUV source. Is it being converted to RGB? In other words, am I taking a hidden quality hit by using Vegas with YUV source footage.