Yes. You can dither from 10bit to 8bit to alleviate problems like banding. (You of course can just dither it first and save the result in 8 bit in encoded resu

Yes. You can dither from 10bit to 8bit to alleviate problems like banding. (You of course can just dither it first and save the result in 8 bit in encoded result; but that would dramatically increase bitrate).