Color range selection

[mylek83]

Description of the feature or enhancement you'd like to see in HandBrake

Good morning,

It would be great if you can add in "Colourspace" the sRGB, which offers the full color gamut 0-255.

The problem with the BT.709 is that there is not the full color gamut, but only colors limited to 16-240. I am in "Color range Limited" when I export a video in x264.

Thanks for reading me.

What Operating System are you running?

Windows 10

What version of HandBrake are you running?

1.7.1

Where did you download HandBrake from?

handbrake.fr

Activity Log, Crash Log or any other details

No response

[galad87]

I guess what you want is full range BT.709.
Anyway, half of the players out there can't even display full range properly, so if your source is not full range it's better to keep it the limited range. I have some work in progress to add a color range selection in HandBrake, but it still needs some work.

[mylek83]

Exactly. It is true that full range of colors BT.709 is the same as sRGB.
I make screen recordings with Camtasia software which offers the full range of colors without any loss of quality. The good thing about the HandBrake software is that I can then compress the video to x264 YUV 4:4:4 to keep the same fidelity, but the colors are slightly different from the source file, especially the shades of white and gray.

Great then, I will update Handbrake and one day I will see if the option will be present. Thanks for your feedback.