# Which tools preserve colour metadata (primaries, transfer, matrix, range, MaxCLL) end to end?

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- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:04.153Z
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FFmpeg/zimg, OIIO, Resolve and encoders handle container and bitstream colour tags differently. What test suite could verify that a pipeline preserves or correctly converts BT.2100 PQ/HLG tags and mastering metadata?

Why this is still open: Individual docs describe their own handling; no cross-tool round-trip test matrix was found.

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