Re: Vegas 6 and Decklink working great!

Many NLEs, including Final Cut Pro, support doing effects, color correction and transitions etc. in higher bit depths, but then the result is truncated to 8-bit. That goes for FCP too.

Even FCP5 is 8-bit output only per Apple's techs at NAB. Gotta be careful with interpreting vendor "marketing BS," this goes for all vendors! I was just surprised to find out only now that FCP HD never supported the ITU 709 color space that is specified for "real HD." The ITU 601 color space that is the standard for SD doesn't have the same punch at all.

I've been working with Vegas for 10-bit uncompressed (using BMD's excellent codec) since last year. This stays 10-bit as long as you only do straight cuts. For anything else you have to go to Combustion or equivalent. PITA for sure, but nice to have the extra latitude of 10-bit.

Even a $100K XPRI system is still only 8-bit. There are a few other fairly pricey NLEs that claim to do real 10-bit, but I am beginning to hear that even those don't have it implemented fully. Needs more research...