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zerowalker · 24th November 2013, 11:05

Wait, are Broadcast Tapes 10bit upsampled?
Aren´t those originally in 10bit, but everything that actually shows to the World (Cinema, TV, DVD you name it) is 8bit, so the actual original (At least for broadcasts) are never actually seen?
It makes no sense if they just have 10bit tapes for the heck of it, if all material is actually 8bit, and when they are going to show it, they dither it down after it was upsampled once.

EDIT:

Not adding Rec.709 etc will actually be worse than not adding it.

As if you have RGB and save it to YV something, you will automatically convert it to Rec.601, so if that´s wrong the only way to solve it is through Avisynth and Colormatrix conversion, which is a lot more advanced, and also not perfect.
I think you could add it as, "Expert", or something, cause Decoding will not solve this if it´s converted, as it will stay Rec.601 all the time.

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zerowalker Registered User Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,121	Wait, are Broadcast Tapes 10bit upsampled? Aren´t those originally in 10bit, but everything that actually shows to the World (Cinema, TV, DVD you name it) is 8bit, so the actual original (At least for broadcasts) are never actually seen? It makes no sense if they just have 10bit tapes for the heck of it, if all material is actually 8bit, and when they are going to show it, they dither it down after it was upsampled once. EDIT: Not adding Rec.709 etc will actually be worse than not adding it. As if you have RGB and save it to YV something, you will automatically convert it to Rec.601, so if that´s wrong the only way to solve it is through Avisynth and Colormatrix conversion, which is a lot more advanced, and also not perfect. I think you could add it as, "Expert", or something, cause Decoding will not solve this if it´s converted, as it will stay Rec.601 all the time. Last edited by zerowalker; 24th November 2013 at 11:21.