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by aras_p 865 days ago
No it's not. But, the previous code was already effectively doing "c * c" for the last 15 years. So for now, just keep doing that, a bit faster.

A more proper way would be to do proper color-space aware luma calculation. Which under default settings is sRGB indeed, but not necessarily so (VSE can be set to operate in some other color space). Someday!
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nnevatie 865 days ago
Yes, it's weird they used 2.0 in the original code too. Doing proper gamma for any regular space (sRGB, YUV Rec.705, etc.) isn't actually that heavy (even without LUTs).
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aras_p 865 days ago
My guess is that the code was written by someone in 1995 back when no one understood color spaces, or something (it's hard to track down who and when wrote it exactly due to all file moves and refactors etc.)
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