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Post-production · process

Bit depth

The number of digital values available to represent each sampled image or audio component.

In practice

Greater depth can reduce quantization artifacts when the full pipeline preserves and uses it.

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Sources

  1. Premiere Pro editing reference · Adobe
  2. ACES Documentation Glossary · Academy Color Encoding System

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