Sorry, I should qualify that it is only limited to legal ranges in 422
modes, not 444.  Though Alexa still doesn't give the option to record
extended range in 444.

-deke

On Friday, January 6, 2012, Deke Kincaid <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>> London
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