[FFmpeg-user] ProRes XQ 12-bit support

[Paul B Mahol]

On 4/23/18, Elliott Balsley <elliottbalsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Two or more wrongs do not make one good.
>
> Sorry, I'm not understanding your point.  The question I'm trying to
> understand is, how are pixels actually encoded?  Is each pixel represented
> by a triplet of RGB / YUV values?  If so, is there some way to look at it in
> a text editor and see values like (1024,1024,1024) for a white pixel in
> 10-bit RGB?

Yes.

>
> Can it be possible for ffmpeg to misinterpret the image as 10-bit instead of
> 12, and still make the image look correct?

No.