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- Real Name: Phil McAfee
PhilipJA wrote:Hi,
I'm on Resolve 15 Studio on a Windows 10 PC and have recordings from my Panasonic GH5 using the 200mbps All-Intra mp4 10 bit format.
If I use the h.264/mp4 to deliver, the resulting file returns to 8 bit.
Am I therefore losing all the advantages of colour adjustments and re-introducing banding back in the footage?
Any advice or workarounds so that an mp4 file can play freely in any media player with the qualities of 10bit?
If you want to color grade your footage then 10 bit (and 4:2:2 chroma subsampling) is more robust , so even if the destination format is 8 bit you will have an advantage.
I would not use the built-in H.264 encoder. Not only have I encountered many glitches using this encoder in a Windows environment (apparently those do not exist on max OS) but also Resolve's dithering to 8 bit (if there is any dithering at all) is substandard.
My preferred workflow is to encode to DNxHx or Cineform and from there use x264 to encode to H.264. You can opt to keep it 10 bit or dither it to 8 bit depending on the requirements.