Apple Tiff Quicktime

[Chris Nuzzaco]

Does anyone have tech specs on this? What bit depth does it support? I'm looking at possibly using it for editing footage from my Andromeda.

Thanks!

[Gavin Greenwalt]

It's slower performance than a Tiff sequence but it works. I use it for lossless archiving. Especially good for motion graphic/alpha/Gbuffer layers but otherwise it's pretty unspectacular compression from a natural image.

I don't know if it's part of the spec but I know in Combustion Quicktime-Tiff does not support >8 bit channel images which could be a problem for you... or not.

[Chris Nuzzaco]

Hummm... yeah, I'm aiming for at least 10 bit, as thats what my footage is coming into the system, 12 bit is the ideal, guess I'll have to keep searching.

[Eugene]

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/support.html

The editing is 8 or 10 bit in the new FCP 6. Look at the bottom of the page of the link above. I don't know if that answers your question.

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Is there a problem with using image sequences? It'll give you the most flexibility if you want a lossless workflow.

[Chris Nuzzaco]

Its the extra file sized caused by the bit depth. My footage is 10 bit, I realize the benefits of oversampling, but 12 would be nicer on the file size, and I wouldn't be losing any data.