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The importance of bit depth in compositing

The importance of bit depth in compositing

From the course: 3ds Max: Rendering for Compositing in V-Ray Next

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The importance of bit depth in compositing

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- [Instructor] Now whilst the technical aspects of lighting and rendering workflows aren't generally speaking everybody's favorite subject, they are nevertheless essential to our being able to work smartly, efficiently, and indeed creatively inside V-Ray Next for 3ds Max. What we want to cover in this video then is an important overview of just what is meant whenever we hear the terms bit or color depth used in connection with the image files that we use to save our V-Ray renders to disk. Now, just as a side note here, when talking about the color information contained inside an image file of any type, the technically correct approach would be to refer to this as its color depth, but because color depth is measured in bits, many people simply refer to this aspect of an image file as its bit depth. Besides understanding what the term bit depth refers to though, we also need to understand a little bit about the why, as…

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