# Result when converting color space to SDR
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Read this section if you set up one or more MediaLive outputs to [convert the color space](colorspace-output-setup.md#colorspace-output-setup-convert) to Rec. 601 or Rec. 709. The following table shows how MediaLive handles each type of color space that it encounters in the source.



- ** Content in the same SDR color space **
  -  [See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html) 

- ** Content in the other SDR color space **
  -  [See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html) 

- **Content in HDR10**
  - When the output codec is H.264 and if you have enabled enhanced VQ, MediaLive does the following:[See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)<br />After the conversion, the content complies completely with the new color space. The color will be less rich. The color will match the new brightness function.<br />If you haven't enabled VQ, MediaLive doesn't convert anything. It passes through the color space metadata, any brightness metadata, and any display metadata.
  - When the output codec is H.265, MediaLive does the following:[See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)<br />After the conversion, the content complies completely with the new color space. The color will be less rich. The color will match the new brightness function.

- **Content in HLG**
  - When the output codec is H.264 and if you have enabled enhanced VQ, MediaLive does the following:[See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)<br />After the conversion, the content complies completely with the new color space. The color will be less rich. The color will match the new brightness function.<br />If you haven't enabled VQ, MediaLive doesn't convert anything. It passes through the color space metadata, and any brightness metadata.
  - When the output codec is H.265, MediaLive does the following:[See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)<br />After the conversion, the content complies completely with the new color space. The color will be less rich. The color will match the new brightness function.

- **Content in Dolby Vision 8.1**
  - This conversion isn't supported. After conversion, the color map of the content will be completely wrong.

- **Content marked with an unknown or unsupported color space**
  - We can't make any promises about how MediaLive will handle input that is in an unsupported color space. Any of the following might apply:[See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)

- ** Content with no color space metadata **
  -  [See the AWS documentation website for more details](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/colorspace-output-sdr.html)