

16-bpc pixels can have values foreach color channel from 0 (black) to 32,768 (pure, saturated color).If all three color channels have the maximum, pure-color value,the result is white. In After Effects, 32-bpc pixel values are floating-point values.Ĩ-bpc pixels can have values for each color channel from 0 (black)to 255 (pure, saturated color). Floating-point numbers canrepresent a much larger range of numbers with the same number ofbits. In addition to color bit depth, a separate characteristic ofthe numbers used to represent pixel values is whether the numbersare integers or floating-point numbers. In After Effects, you can work in 8-bpc, 16-bpc, or 32-bpc color. The more bits for each RGB channel (red, green, and blue),the more colors each pixel can represent.


Color depth (or bit depth) isthe number of bits per channel (bpc) used to represent the colorof a pixel.
