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Old March 9th, 2008, 08:40 PM   #1
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32-bit floating point

what is it and when to use it???
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Old March 9th, 2008, 10:03 PM   #3
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It:

1- Allows you to render with higher bit depth. This reduces rounding error during rendering. When passing the values between filters, 32-bit values are passed instead of 8-bit values.

It also lets you do linear light compositing (though some of those things are possible with 8-bit):
http://glennchan.info/articles/vegas...t/linlight.htm

If you have banding issues with your renders, rendering in 32-bit might solve it.

2- There are some gotchas with 32-bit. Some codecs behave differently in 32-bit mode versus 8-bit mode.

http://glennchan.info/articles/vegas...or/v8color.htm
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