What Color Space Does Vegas Edit In? YUV? RGB?

arnaut wrote on 4/20/2003, 9:36 PM

I also wonder what bit depth it is capable of working in, although I would assume -- almost certainly -- that it is 8-bit color.

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taliesin wrote on 4/21/2003, 3:52 AM

It edits in the color space that is given with DV (YUV) - because editing itself does not affect the signal.

But Vegas decompresses to RRB while rendering. Does a very good job here - keeps full luminance range without any clipping.

Marco

arnaut wrote on 4/21/2003, 2:54 PM

Thanks, T.

Of course, I meant while rendering. However I would think that keeping it in YUV, with an upsampling scheme like Canopus does, would probably be better, since every time you are going from one color space to another you have the opportunity for quantization errors.

taliesin wrote on 4/21/2003, 3:03 PM

>> However I would think that keeping it in YUV, with an
>> upsampling scheme like Canopus does, would probably
>> be better, since every time you are going from one
>> color space to another you have the opportunity for
>> quantization errors.

True, but comparisons between Canopus-DV codec and SoFo-DV codec states SoFo DV has no disadvantages there.

Marco