Prores always clips to legal range.  That's why Alexa won't even let you
pick extended range when recording to prores in the camera.

-deke

On Friday, January 6, 2012, Lewis Saunders <[email protected]> wrote:
> Adrian Baltowski wrote:
>> There is an internal bug in movReader which cause, that
>> Nuke doesn't import correctly rec709 colorspace quicktimes.
>
> 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
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