Avid Footage: Converting YCbCr / 601 to RGB

I have a black and white short film that was edited on AVID Xpress and exported as a Quicktime Reference movie using the AVID Meridien Uncompressed codec. I want to get this into iDVD - my problem is reserving the quality of the black levels.
When playing back the QT, the blacks show up as (16,16,16) not (0,0,0); the Meridien codec is obviously using YCbCr colorspace (16-235 instead of 0-255). I want to expand this range to restore full blacks and whites as iDVD seems to assume an RGB colorspace.
I've tried Quicktime Pro with SheerVideo codecs with no luck. Anybody know how to perform this color conversion?
Thanks

Do you still have the sequence on the...never mind, that's a stupid question, you already said it was a reference movie. Or...wait a minute, where does the Meridien codec come in..is that how you imported the OMFs? Reference movies generally don't use codecs; they refer to the original OMFs on your media drives so that what comes out of QuickTime Player is exactly what Avid is working with, subject to some minor post-processing to do things like change pixel aspect ratio and color levels.
Go back to the Avid and export the sequence as a reference movie, but in the export dialog, click on Options and specify that you want RGB color space:
That's the settings I used when I exported a widescreen clip as a reference movie so that I could use QuickTime Pro to do my final encode. In this case it was ultimately going to be an H.264 clip used in a Keynote show. Note that because my destination was not 601-aware, I specified both RGB color space and square pixels.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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