I am planning on gearing up my computer to capture A/V uncompressed. I believe that I have the HD throughput and sustained write issue under control (4channel raid 8 HD :P ), however I am wondering about the depth of color I will be getting.

I normally capture through VirtualDub w/ Huffy and PCM (cd quality) sound. I know Huffy is limited to 24 bit bit color only. However when I finally get my computer upgraded, I was wondering if my new uncompressed captures will have 32 bit color or 24 bit.

Theoretically, since I will be capturing uncompressed video, it should be grabbing the entire color spectrum available from the source. However I know that there is some filtering of data, as only the primary video source, and primary audio source are grabbed, and the secondary audio, closed capturing information, and other information transmitted to a US television are ignored. If there is this kind of filtering that happens automatically, it stands to reason that primary video and audio filtering is also happening. Whether it is from lack of code written to grab this data, excessive parsing of data to filter out some of this data, or what not, I would like to know before jump into this process, what to expect.

Does anyone know (and hopefully explain for the lurkers) what the color depth of uncompressed video in VirtualDub is?

FYI: my uncompressed setting in VDub is in YUY2