Perrone Ford |
December 22nd, 2008 10:50 AM |
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Originally Posted by Bill Ravens
(Post 982216)
For my money, Cineform is the most stable, both in quality and color rendition, followed by SHEER.
I have used Vegas, extensively in the past. Vegas seems to have a real bone with Quicktime. If using QT within vegas works for you, I'm, honestly, quite amazed.
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You don't know how I wish my Cineform would work with the 64bit Vegas. But I have to drop EVERYTHING into 32 bit 8.0c to use it. 8.1 won't read or write to it.
I work in 32bit float in Vegas. I know most people won't because it's "slow". But I find that when I work in 32bit float, my colors, scopes, and everything else works the way I expect. When I take my project out to a different app like virtualdub, the 24bit colors stay true. And I can drop it right back into Vegas with the expected results. This is only for .AVI files mind you.
When I work with Quicktime in 32bit float, everything just works. My renders are on the money, colors are right, and I have no problems. But yes, there is a time penalty. So it comes down to whether you are in a hurry, or whether you want it right. In my case, accuracy is more important, so I do it this way. For someone trying to render video of their kids running around, it doesn't matter. When I have people on the hook for a couple grand, I want to give them the best quality I can.
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