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Bit depth and bit rate.
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Hi John, bit depth in ProRes is 10 bit, in MP4 it's 8 bit.
There is no dedicated "bitrate", since LRTimelapse uses CRF compression (Constant Rate Factor).
See: http://slhck.info/video/2017/02/24/crf-guide.html
The qualities are defined as follows:
Ultra High: 8
Very high: 10
High: 16
Medium: 20
Low: 22
There is no dedicated "bitrate", since LRTimelapse uses CRF compression (Constant Rate Factor).
See: http://slhck.info/video/2017/02/24/crf-guide.html
The qualities are defined as follows:
Ultra High: 8
Very high: 10
High: 16
Medium: 20
Low: 22
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You can export either 8bit Tiffs or 16bit tiffs via LRTExport. Of course the 16bit tiffs in theory will have more details, but since this happens after you did the contrast editing in LR, it's not a big difference anymore. So when rendering in Prores, if you want to get the maximum possible quality, you should export in 16 bit TIFF also. In reality the difference in many cases is not noticeable.
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Thanks for the answer. I actually don’t understand how it is possible to export as tif 8bit from lr to LRTL and then we render it using Prores which is 10 bit? I mean from 8 to 10. Is the bit for image and bit for video differenc? Lately i notice that I have banding in sky in my clip. This could be due to I export 8jpeq. Btw I has private licience I think. I should cross grade now.
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If you export in 8bit and render in 10 of course you will not gain in quality, but you won't loose also. It's just 8 bit being stretched to 10.
If you render in Prores, best would be to go for the Tiff intermediaries in LRT Pro.
If you render in Prores, best would be to go for the Tiff intermediaries in LRT Pro.