RGB vs YUV rendering

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RGB vs YUV rendering

We have been making spots for the web out of DVCPRO HD and DVCPRO 50 material, compressing to h264 for final delivery. One of my editors changed the render setting for our final sequence from RGB to YUV, saying this would help color matching when delivering to the web. I didn't really understand his explanation, so I came here. For DVCPRO HD or DVCPRO 50 material, should I have my rendering set to RGB or YUV? Most of our stuff goes out as SD DVD or Quicktime files for the web.

G5 Quad 16GB Ram, MBP 2.33 Ghz 15", Mac OS X (10.4.11), AJA Kona LHe, FCP 6.0.3

Posted on Aug 26, 2008 12:19 PM

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Answer 1

Shane Ross

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Aug 26, 2008 12:41 PM in response to Brandon Parris

Hmmm...the default for DVCPRO HD is 8-bit YUV...so it should always render in that setting. How did it get switched to RGB?

Shane

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Answer 2

Aug 26, 2008 12:43 PM in response to Shane Ross

I just checked and all of my AJA card settings are for YUV, but somehow my DVCPRO HD and DV50 (non AJA) presets were set to RGB. Does this seem right, or should the default for all of these DVC codecs be YUV?

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Answer 3

Shane Ross

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Aug 26, 2008 12:51 PM in response to Brandon Parris

Not sure about DVCPRO 50, but DVCPRO HD should always default to YUV.

Shane

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Answer 4

Aug 26, 2008 1:05 PM in response to Shane Ross

Gotcha. My AJA DVCPRO 50 setting is default to YUV, and the setting on my laptop version of FCP is YUV. Plus the analog component inputs on my DVCPRO 50 deck are YUV. Don't know how they got changed. I guess that's one of the problems with freelancers putting their grubby hands on my machine.

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