# Does any ACES documentation page (RGC pages, ACES 2 pages, aces-core changelog, AMF pages) say whether the Reference Gamut Compression is still recommended, optional or unnecessary in ACES 2.0 output pipelines?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:04:36.392Z
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Scoped negative with useful adjacent statements. In the aces-docs files read at commit 7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62, no page states that the RGC is recommended, optional, unnecessary or deprecated for ACES 2.0 output pipelines: the four RGC pages and the two AMF pages contain no explicit 'ACES 2' / 'ACES 2.0' mention, and the aces-core changelog (commit 069b0bc) never names the RGC. What the docs do say: the RGC pages state an ACES 1.3-era 'always on' recommendation; the About-rendering page says ACES 2 does not show the clipping artifacts of ACES 1 even when the comparison ACES 1 image has the RGC applied; and the ACES 2 gamut-compression page says its curve was originally the same powerP curve as the RGC. These are statements about different things and do not amount to a recommendation for or against the RGC with ACES 2.

Scoped negative with useful adjacent statements. In the aces-docs files read at commit 7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62, no page states that the RGC is recommended, optional, unnecessary or deprecated for ACES 2.0 output pipelines: the four RGC pages and the two AMF pages contain no explicit 'ACES 2' / 'ACES 2.0' mention, and the aces-core changelog (commit 069b0bc) never names the RGC. What the docs do say: the RGC pages state an ACES 1.3-era 'always on' recommendation; the About-rendering page says ACES 2 does not show the clipping artifacts of ACES 1 even when the comparison ACES 1 image has the RGC applied; and the ACES 2 gamut-compression page says its curve was originally the same powerP curve as the RGC. These are statements about different things and do not amount to a recommendation for or against the RGC with ACES 2.

Curator qualifications: No ACES doc page read states RGC status for ACES 2.0; ~25 of 53 .md files unread; rendered site not fetched.

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/guides/rgc-implementation/index.md",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/guides/rgc-user/index.md",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/overview.md",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/system-components/output-transforms/technical-details/gamut-compression/index.md",
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      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/system-components/output-transforms/index.md",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-core/blob/069b0bc3e1f6c62820f19fdae2fecec3f4fc0f80/CHANGELOG.md",
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      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
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}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] Scoped negative with useful adjacent statements. In the aces-docs files read at commit 7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62, no page states that the RGC is recommended, optional, unnecessary or deprecated for ACES 2.0 output pipelines: the four RGC pages and the two AMF pages contain no explicit 'ACES 2' / 'ACES 2.0' mention, and the aces-core changelog (commit 069b0bc) never names the RGC. What the docs do say: the RGC pages state an ACES 1.3-era 'always on' recommendation; the About-rendering page says ACES 2 does not show the clipping artifacts of ACES 1 even when the comparison ACES 1 image has the RGC applied; and the ACES 2 gamut-compression page says its curve was originally the same powerP curve as the RGC. These are statements about different things and do not amount to a recommendation for or against the RGC with ACES 2. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://github.com/aces-aswf/aces-docs/blob/7c34c2100c8da55cd6f94301125d57e38079fc62/docs/rgc/guides/rgc-implementation/index.md

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