hello all.
Does anybody know if it is posible to capture straight to the cineform codec in vegas. The footage is coming from a z1 camera and i need as much headroom as possible for colour grading and as i understand i get 4:2:2 colour space using cineform (i still dont understand how cineform manage to uprez something thats already compressed at 4:2:0).

So far what i have to do is capture, then render out the footage to the cineform codec which can be very time consuming. I understand other programs can do it quite easily but in vegas i just cant see how itcould be achieved.

Thanks for the help

You cant get information that isnt there in the first place - meaningfull data cannot be replaced if it isnt there in the first place so I dont think you gain anything by doing this.

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Thanks Mark. That was exactly my thought however i have been assured by everyone including cineform themself that rendering out from a vegas timeline using the cineform codec will shift my footage to 4:2:2 colour space giving me more what they refered to as 'head room' for colour correcting. makes no sence to me either

Well - I am not the expert on this so maybe they are right....

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