Fast Range Conversion (tv -> pc)

[trogfecta]

Hello, I am using Selur's hybrid video encoder to restore and convert a bunch (30 hours) of miniDV footage to H265. About halfway through, I realized why the colors looked so washed out. I had not selected to convert the range from limited to full in the vapoursynth settings inside hybrid. There is over 30 hours of footage, and it would take a long time to reencode what I have done so far. So I am wondering if there is a fast way to preserve the quality of my H265 encodes and just convert the color range in them from TV (16-235) to PC (0 to 255).

[butterw]

As long as your files are tagged as limited range, range expansion should be performed by default at playback.

Use mediainfo to check if the files are tagged correctly, if they are not tagged as Limited, correct with ffmpeg hevc bitstream flag.
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1921283#post1921283

[jagabo]

Pretty much all commercial video is limited range YUV. DVD, Blu-ray, Netflix, youtube, etc. You should encode your video as limited range too. Just be sure it's not flagged as full range.