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My experience today joining Moj app is nothing but spectacular, right from uploading my first reel & instantly seeing it as HDR & it remained HDR constantly then within few mins turning on the Dolby Vision logo on Reels was unbelievable. I tried posting different kinds of HDR material & they all show up as... Continue Reading →
Apparently, the only probe currently approved for calibrating the XMP550 with Volumetric AutoCal, the Colorimetry Research CR-100, costs as much as the Hyundai Elantra we barely managed to pay off before moving to South Korea in 2007. Source: Flanders Scientific Source: Flanders Scientific
First of all, color management. We'd stick with one of Dolby Professional's recommendations: DaVinci YRGB Color Managed (auto) Color Processing Mode - HDR. Output Color Space - HDR HLG. DaVinci YRGB Color Managed (auto unchecked) Color Processing Mode - HDR Rec.2020 HLG. Output Color Space - Rec.2020/Rec.2100 HLG "For the Color Management setting, there are... Continue Reading →
We purchased a subscription to Video Village’s Filmbox back in February but were disappointed that highlights roll off at just a couple hundred nits, which is why we were no longer able to recommend the plugin. When we mentioned this peculiar behavior over at the liftgammagain colorist forum, Greg Cotten, the developer of the film... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/BnIPFVFtzwc?si=dEuCBDLuUL7v_kWy Review the latest in Dolby Vision technical updates, color grading best practices, and other topics including: Dolby Vision License changes Improved L1 analysis Long Play analysis mode, HDMI tunnelling and 300-nit target display in Baselight SDR to Dolby Vision workflows New Dolby Vision 3D profile for Head Mounted Displays To us, the most interesting... Continue Reading →
It's obvious most of these other reviewers like Stop the Fomo, Digital Trends, and HDTV Test are just satanist in disguise. Every time I've seen one of their videos you can tell they are trying to brain wash the masses into their gay liberal satanic atheist agenda. Quantum TV Quantum TV, a YouTube channel with... Continue Reading →
Online tutorials insist on making an S-curve, but the correct way to normalize ETTR footage is to create a gentle convex curve. It's also possible to reduce ISO in post. Which method is better? The clip normalized with a curve (on the right), is less saturated and has greater highlight detail. The clip on the... Continue Reading →
ProRes 4444 has disappeared without a trace from Blackmagic's Camera app with no word yet as to whether it's a bug or some other reason.
"In the entertainment industry, film grain is widely present in the motion picture and TV material and is considered part of the creative intent. The grain is inherent in analog motion picture film due to the process of exposure and development of silver-halide crystals dispersed in photographic emulsion [2] as randomly distributed grains appear at... Continue Reading →
The Netflix limited series Clark featured the most inventive use of HDR we'd ever seen, so we just had to reach out to colorist Bill Ferwerda to ask if he'd be willing to talk with us about his workflow. What camera was used on Clark? [The] Sony Venice. Was an HDR monitor used on set or during... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/QHl7FcWa-ng?si=1U8CfuFauNL-jP9T A game-changing innovation in HDR visualization. Discover the revolutionary tool, first presented at IBC 2023. Good news & bad news. First, the good news: Florian Friedrich teamed up with Dr. Kenichiro Masaoka, the inventor of gamut rings, to develop a standalone OFX plugin for DaVinci Resolve, which comes bundled together with the InnoPQ HDRmaster... Continue Reading →
Team 2 Films uploaded a color management master class to YouTube a few months back, and in their zeal to promote an ACES or RCM/DWG workflow, they say that ARRI Log C was designed solely for camera capture, not for grading, which might have been true of ARRI's old Log C, but is not true... Continue Reading →
This morning's Dolby Vision Technical Webinar introduced a new 3D analysis, automated SDR to HDR conversion and perhaps most exciting of all (scratch the perhaps - it's the most notable update of the day!) - a new tunable L1 analysis algorithm that is not only 20% faster, but which substantially improves the Dolby Vision derived... Continue Reading →
AI compression tech could deliver 50x smaller files than technologies like H.264. According to flatplanelshd, ‘the team behind the MPEG standards is currently developing an AI-based codec with the aim of releasing it before the end of this decade.’ Read the story here.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to: Moungi G. BawendiMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA Louis E. BrusColumbia University, New York, NY, USA Alexei I. EkimovNanocrystals Technology Inc., New York, NY, USA “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots” They planted an... Continue Reading →
Just as ‘anything greater than 100 nits’ is not a definition of HDR, neither is ‘anything wider than Rec.709’ necessarily WCG. Display Daily reports: Chris Chinnock, commenting on a story about a new laser projector, said, “It annoys me when multiple companies cite a color gamut spec of 110% of BT.2020. What they mean is the... Continue Reading →
Because there's so much leeway for placing exposure in post, it's all too easy to grade HDR footage so that it ends up too bright and over-saturated. We used to occasionally use the luma/sat curves in Resolve to reduce saturation in either the shadows, the highlights, or both in order to achieve a more 'film-like'... Continue Reading →
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