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Old 23rd December 2015, 04:03   #18  |  Link
aladdin4d
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Originally Posted by kolak View Post
Not sure if you are up to date, but GV codec are free now: decoding and encoding on PC and Mac. Lack 10bit support in avi is more about VFW/diretchsow problems with high bit depths support than licensing etc. It works with MOV without any restrictions. 8/10bit in HQX has nothing to do with licensing at all. For long time GV codecs were not free and you couldn't encode if machine did not have Edius license, but this changed some time ago. It's not possible to encode HQX at 10bit outside Edius as VFW/directshow modules provided by GV have no 10bit pixel format on input (e.g. like Cineform, which at least accepts v210 pixel format). MOV version does as high depth pixel formats are more common and standardised in QT.
Not out of date at all. The Grass Valley codecs come with a license manager and unless an authorized app shows up in the license manager 10 bit encoding fails every time in every app AVI or MOV period. When an authorized app like Edius is detected then Presto! 10 bit encoding is miraculously enabled. If Adobe products are authorized then as I said Good For You but that is not a universal experience.
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