WATCHOUT 7 — Codec colour fidelity

Effective bit depth per ingest codec · GPU acceleration · alpha channel support

GPU-accelerated · ingest & playout

HAP

~5–6 bit

HAP Alpha

~5–6 bit

HAP Q

8-bit equiv.

HAP Q Alpha

8-bit equiv.

Notch LC

10-bit equiv.

Notch LC Alpha

10-bit equiv.

CPU-decoded · ingest only (transcode on ingest)

ProRes 422

10-bit

ProRes 4444

12-bit

HEVC 8-bit

8-bit

HEVC 10-bit

10-bit · HDR

lower fidelity → higher fidelity