Fine by me. 

On Oct 17, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's another possibility I would entertain -- automatically upgrading the 
> subsampling when a sufficiently high quality is requested.
> 
> This seems too magical to me. Those who are setting subsampling levels are 
> probably expert users and probably thus want what they are asking for 
> explicitly.
> 
> I set the default quality for jpeg output (if no "quality" attribute is 
> found) quite high, 98. I'm also happy to revisit whether that's too much. I 
> can't say it was a principled reason for that particular value.
> 
> Back when we used 8-bit jpegs in production, they were quality 98, and we 
> moved over time from 4:2:0 to 4:4:4. When we used "16-bit" jpegs (actually 
> 12-bits internally) we used 4:4:4 and quality of 75. Some tests determined 
> that quality of 75 in 16/12-bit looked as good as 98 in 8-bit.
> 
> Anyway, just data points using jpeg images in animation production. 
> 
> I'd vote the default to be 4:2:0 since that's what most devices write. Those 
> who want 4:4:4 are more likely to understand these settings.
> 
> --jono
> 
> 

--
Larry Gritz
[email protected]



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