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This post is about a common gotcha when transcoding QuickTime containers for review, and how I fixed it this one time.

Where people trip up​

Here's a scenario that will be familiar to anyone who's ever used QuickTime Player for editorial or client review: you render a DNxHD file. Same source, same codec, same colorspace. You open it up and it looks noticeably different; maybe lifted, maybe with a gamma shift, maybe slightly desaturated. You bring it into Nuke or something similar, with no color transforms applied, read as raw data, and it's pixel-for-pixel what you were looking at before. So what's going on?

The answer, more often than not, lives in the QuickTime container's color metadata, specifically the NCLC atom.