[FFmpeg-user] Preserving color space for MOV container

[Dave Rice]

> On Jul 17, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Christian Johannesen <chrisjohannesen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> 
>> Christian Johannesen <chrisjohannesen <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I'm wondering if it is possible to preserve or set
>>> the color_space, color_transfer & color_primaries
>>> in a conversion to a MOV container format.
>> 
>> You currently have to pass the following options:
>> -color_primaries
>> -color_trc
>> -color_range
> 
> 
>> Carl Eugen
>> 
> 
> Thanks for the direction on setting this, I can see that FFMPEG does
> recognize the option, but I don't see the metadata getting set in the
> output MOV when I scan it with ffprobe.
> 
> Updated command:
> 
> ffmpeg -guess_layout_max 0 -i D:\MEDIA\TELECINE_1080i5994_ProRes422LT.mov
> -map 0:v -vf
> pullup,dejudder,idet,yadif=deint=interlaced:mode=0,setsar=sar=1/1,setfield=prog
> -r 24000/1001 -vcodec prores -profile:v 1 -colorspace 1 -color_primaries 1
> -color_trc 1 -color_range 1 -map 0:a -acodec copy -channel_layout mono
> -timecode 01:45:14:18 -metadata:s encoder="Apple ProRes 422 LT"
> D:\MEDIA\TEST_1080p2398_ProRes422LT.mov

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Have you tried -movflags write_colr? IIRC the colr atom is disabled by default in mov.
Dave