I really need some After Effects Logic regarding ProRes 4444

Regardinf ProRes 4444
I cant unterstand why it is so difficult to make this work properly.
It used to be that we could NOT select Trillions of Colors because they were grayed out.
Thus giving us 16 Bit per channel...
Then we had a fix althoug manual at first, we could then select 16 bit per channel...
Now we have a NEW problem.... And it is exactly opposite.
Now -- We cannot select Millions of colors thus 8 bit per channel.
I have a project in 8 Bit and I want to render it to ProRes 4444 but NOT in 16 bit per channel but with 8 bit per channel.
I cant do that as the Millions of colors (and Millions of Colors+) are grayed out...
I have a really hard time understanding this never ending problem. How hard can it be... Or am I the one totally missing the obvious...
BTW - Apples Compressor and Quicktime 7, correctly outputs 8 bit per channel incl. Alpha thus achieving 32 Bit (8 bit per channel)
Why cant after effects...
To the developers in case you are here ,-)
If the AE project is 8 bit per channel we should be able to render 8 bit per channel ProRes4444
If the AE project is 16 bit per channel we should be able to render 16 bit per channel ProRes4444
Thanks for any clarification

Rick Gerard wrote:
Apple Pro Rez 444 is a 12 bit codec. It always encodes at 12 bit. You can't force Pro-Rez 4444 to any other bit depth. The behavior in CS5.5 is correct and makes sense.
FYI, ProRez 422 HQ is a 10 bit codec. It won't encode at anything else. Changing the color depth settings in the Output Module won't change the way the codec works.
Here's a link to the ProRez white paper.
Hi Rick,
thanks for chiming in.
I have already read that paper many times. Perhaps I am just not smart enough.
When you say that it always encodes in 12bit... Does that mean that if I have a 16 Bit per channel Image Sequence that it would truncate the 4 upper bits ?
Here is the description of Apple's Compressor ProRes 4444 Setting. Indicating 32 bit which would be 8 bit per channel alpha included...
Be really nice if you could explaing that to me
Name: Apple ProRes 4444
Description: QuickTime movie with Apple ProRes 4444 (with Alpha) and audio pass-through
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: unknown
Audio: multi-track pass-through
Video Encoder
          Width: (100% of source)
          Height: (100% of source)
          Pixel aspect ratio: Default
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
          Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
          Codec Type: Apple ProRes 4444
          Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: Off
          Automatic gamma correction
Progressive
          Pixel depth: 32
          Spatial quality: 75
          Min. Spatial quality: 0
          Temporal quality: 0
          Min. temporal quality: 0
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