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


|  Color space that MediaLive encounters  |  How MediaLive handles the color space  | 
| --- | --- | 
|  Content in any color space that MediaLive supports  |  Doesn't touch the color space or brightness (the pixel values) in the output. Passes through any of the three sets of metadata that are present.  | 
|  Content in a color space that MediaLive supports, but that isn't supported for the output codec.  | This conversion isn't supported. After conversion, the color map of the content will be completely wrong. | 
| Content marked with unknown or an unsupported color space |  Doesn't touch the color space or brightness (the pixel values) in the output. Leaves the content as marked with the unknown color space.  Passes through any brightness metadata and display metadata.  | 
|  Content with no color space metadata  |  Doesn't touch the color space or brightness (the pixel values) in the output. Leaves the content as unmarked (no color space metadata).  |