Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 2nd Jun 2009 23:06 UTC
Multimedia, AV For those not familiar with Sony Vegas, it's thought to be the geek choice for video editing on Windows. It's much cheaper than the heavyweight solutions in the industry, but at the same time very powerful and robust. Let's have a look as to what's new in its 9th version.
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8 bit to 32 bit?
by evangs on Wed 3rd Jun 2009 06:12 UTC
evangs
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2005-07-07

It is now suggested that editing can happen in 8bit, but export in 32bit at the end -- which is what matters.

That doesn't make much sense to me. Wouldn't it be better to edit in 32 bit and then downsample the final result to 8 bit for smaller file sizes?

I don't work in video, but when retouching photos I tend to work in 16 bit and then downsample to 8 bit JPEGs when I export.