[FFmpeg-user] FFMPEG introduces color shift to DNxHD MOVs

[Nathan Rusch]

I wanted to follow up on this for posterity (in case anyone else comes down 
this same road).

I was able to get the colors to match 1:1 to the source by adding a 
colormatrix operation to the conversion process via libavfilter. The flag 
and value added are:

-vf colormatrix=bt601:bt709

Thanks again for getting me moving in the right direction Mike.

-Nathan


-----Original Message----- 
From: Mike Scheutzow
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 10:21 AM
To: FFmpeg user questions and RTFMs
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-user] FFMPEG introduces color shift to DNxHD MOVs

Nathan Rusch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> In trying to troubleshoot another issue, I’ve run across a subtle,
> consistent color shift being introduced by FFMPEG to DNxHD-encoded
> MOVs. Thus, they fail to match both DNxHD MOVs generated with the
> Avid codec, as well as both MOVs’ common source material (an 8-bit
> RGB TIFF sequence).


ffmpeg always assumes the BT.601 colorspace when converting from
RGB->YUV and from YUV->RGB. A patch to fix this is welcome, but no one
has ever cared enough to provide it.

So if you do:

ffmpeg:     RGB -> [BT.601 matrix] -> YUV

other tool: YUV -> [BT.709 matrix] -> RGB

then you get a color shift like you describe.

Workaround: feed ffmpeg with a file containing YUV that's been properly
converted.


Mike Scheutzow

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