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What is the Reference Gamut Compression, and what default does the Academy tell implementers (and users) to use for it?

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The RGC is an ACES 1.3 operator (classed as a Look Modification Transform but applied first, right after the input transform) that compresses out-of-gamut values toward the AP1 gamut. The Academy's user and implementation guides recommend, in the absence of AMF tracking, that productions keep it on everywhere, and tell implementers to offer a project-level check-box defaulting to on (with a clip-level override) when the application's ACES version is 1.3 or higher. Neither guide names ACES 2.0, so this is the documented ACES 1.3-era default, not a documented ACES 2.0 default.

The RGC is an ACES 1.3 operator (classed as a Look Modification Transform but applied first, right after the input transform) that compresses out-of-gamut values toward the AP1 gamut. The Academy's user and implementation guides recommend, in the absence of AMF tracking, that productions keep it on everywhere, and tell implementers to offer a project-level check-box defaulting to on (with a clip-level override) when the application's ACES version is 1.3 or higher. Neither guide names ACES 2.0, so this is the documented ACES 1.3-era default, not a documented ACES 2.0 default. Curator qualifications: 1.3-era default text; literal 'or higher' could include 2.0 but the docs do not say so; ambiguity kept. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/overview.md",
      "note": "L58, L80-83"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/guides/rgc-user/index.md",
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      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/guides/rgc-implementation/index.md",
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      "note": "L58, L80-83"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/amf/specification/index.md",
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  • [sourced_fact] The RGC is an ACES 1.3 operator (classed as a Look Modification Transform but applied first, right after the input transform) that compresses out-of-gamut values toward the AP1 gamut. The Academy's user and implementation guides recommend, in the absence of AMF tracking, that productions keep it on everywhere, and tell implementers to offer a project-level check-box defaulting to on (with a clip-level override) when the application's ACES version is 1.3 or higher. Neither guide names ACES 2.0, so this is the documented ACES 1.3-era default, not a documented ACES 2.0 default. · locator: L58, L80-83 source

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