This may be due to the use of ffmpeg.  At a previous company it was necessary 
for me to modify the ffmpeg lib to use rec709 primaries instead of rec601 to 
get accurate color Quicktimes.  It was a real bear to find the responsible 
code...

Ignore me if ffmpeg is not involved in this case…

-jonathan


> Yes, this is a bit of a bummer. To be clear, when reading most
> Quicktimes, Nuke seems to use the Rec601 matrix instead of the Rec709
> one. This causes chroma and saturation shifts compared to FCP, Smoke
> or Baselight's reading of the same files.
> 
> The legal range problem is a a separate thing. In the past I've been
> able to read the full range from uncompressed Quicktimes by ticking
> the raw data box on the Read, which causes the superwhites/blacks to
> come in as over 1/below 0. This can then be graded back into place as
> Howard said above. I'm not sure if this works in current versions or
> with ProRes though.
> 
> I mostly avoid Quicktimes getting anywhere near Nuke :-/
> 
> -- 
> Lewis Saunders
> 8 bit .sgi all the way
> London
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