Best export settings for...

Sorry for so many questions.
If you guys know a decent online resource or book that has these answers
I'd love to stop bothering you.

A buddy of mine has Adobe Premiere and it looks like it will export TIFF files
so I could give my fx guy what he asked for.
The FX person said the PNG files I created can be worked with but I'm just trying to do my own
research to give him exactly what he asked for in the first place.

If I was to export the timeline from Vegas into Premiere what format would
keep the highest bit rate and quality?

I know you guys have mentioned DNxHD will stay in 10bit but is a lossy format.
Is there any other formats that will export in 10bit?
At this point I don't care about size because I can do this all in 1 room on a single hard drive and reconnect to the other computer.


Being new to all this.am I over analizing it? Is 8 bit just fine..etc..etc?
Or am I going the right way trying to squeeze every ounce of quality I can get?
 
Personally I think you're going a bit overboard, but it's up to you to decide where you can take shortcuts and where you feel there are diminishing returns

If you want to preserve as much as possible, minimize your bitdepth conversions and color subsampling conversions. This includes not using cineform. If you must use vegas, then everything exported should stay RGB444 (or RGBA4444 if using alpha)

Only the color corrections and effects etc.. should be done in 10-bit depth (or greater). If you are doing cuts only editing in vegas, it actually better to stay in 8-bit in native format (higher quality and less space requirements). But once you convert to 10-bit , everything in the workflow from there on should stay the same (at least until final format goal e.g. for distribution)

Use uncompressed for everything if you can. There is a 10-bit uncompressed format, it's fourcc is v210.

EDIT: I just checked, and the .tiff format out of Premiere/AME is 8-bit when using a 10-bit source, even when using maximium bit depth and MRQ settings.
 
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Just for future reference
I ended up exporting an uncompressed mov from vegas
importing that into After effects and in there I had all the options for Tff exports.

I originally sent a test file of the PNG's to the visual fx guy
and I got an email from him yesterday after I sent him all the Tiff's
and he said there was a big improvement in quality with the Tiff's
 
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