Full Range V.S. LIMITED Range - tonykwok/made-mistakes-again GitHub Wiki

In summary, see the table below:

RANGE	DEPTH (b)	Luma (Y)	Chroma (Cb, Cr)
FULL	8	[0, 255]	[0, 255]
FULL	10	[0, 1023]	[0, 1023]
FULL	12	[0, 4095]	[0, 4095]
---	---	---	---
LIMITED	8	[16, 235]	[16, 240]
LIMITED	10	[64, 940]	[64, 960]
LIMITED	12	[255, 3760]	[256, 3840]

• Full range uses all values for Y, Cb and Cr from 0 to 2^b-1, where b is the bit depth of the color format.

• Limited range uses values 16/256*2^b to 235/256*2^b for Y, and 1/16*2^b to 15/16*2^b for Cb, Cr, R, G and B, where b is the bit depth of the color format.