06.09.2024, 23:19
Quote:Not to me. Personally, I only use lossless encoding as an intermediate (or archival format).
As intermediate format, my target normally is not the same as the input, since I did apply some filtering and want to keep as many details of the stuff I did as possible. Also, I usually encode everything at 10bit to avoid banding and have better compression.
Archival is usually the same, I did some filtering to a source I want to archive a specific state for a later time.
If I wanted to archive the original, I would stick with a copy of the source.
When capturing something to a lossless format, I would stick to the original color sampling and bit depth to avoid stress and problems during capturing.
As soon as I filter the source and go for lossless, it does not make sense to me.
The only reason I can think of atm., is if I wanted to feed another program which only supports specific color samplings.
(As a side note: I usually would not use H.264 lossless since most hardware decoders won't support it.
OK I had a feeling this had something to do with filtering somehow.
Thank you