Color Depth (Bit-Depth) Calculator
Calculate the theoretical uncompressed size difference per frame when switching between color depths.
8-bit (16M colors)
10-bit (1B colors)
12-bit (68B colors)
Assumptions: Calculations are for a single uncompressed frame in Megabytes. It demonstrates the raw data payload increase before temporal/spatial compression algorithms (like H.264) are applied. Modern codecs are highly efficient at compressing higher bit depths, so a 10-bit MP4 is NOT strictly 25% larger than an 8-bit MP4.