Tom Graham, Head of Dolby Vision Content Enablement, asked three top colorists working in film & television - all senior colorists at Picture Shop - how they felt their work looks on consumer displays. TG: Some colorists will say, ‘I don’t watch my stuff on TV, I've already watched the show’, but how do you guys... Continue Reading →
Upload HDR Video Directly To Instagram Reels From An iPhone
To upload HDR videos directly to IG from an iPhone, set Media quality in Instagram to Upload at highest quality, in the camera app, enable HDR Video, confirm that your Facebook and Instagram accounts are connected, turn off the phone's auto-brightness setting and record HEVC at 4K 30 fps. Disable True Tone. Using AirDrop with... Continue Reading →
How To Export A Dolby Vision Encoded File
https://youtu.be/L8uKGOXL-4o?si=7pqlclFxmcGxnxWA Dolby Vision encodes from DaVinci Resolve Studio are predominantly used for review and approval purposes, peer-to-peer sharing and for distribution to social media services. Therefore, this can be used after grading, performing Dolby Vision analysis and doing additional trims. Navigate to the Deliver page and select H.265 from the available presets at the top... Continue Reading →
Creating Textural Depth (an oldie but a goodie)
During an appearance on Cullen Kelly’s Grade School, the brilliant colorist Jill Bogdanowicz revealed a secret to accentuating texture without it looking over-processed. While working on Joker, the colorist used Live Grain – which separates out the red, green and blue channels, creating grain that resembles scanned film – to accentuate texture in the cooler,... Continue Reading →
Moj: All HDR Videos Are Dolby Vision
Update: As of June 2023, close to 20,000 Dolby Vision videos had been uploaded to the video sharing platform since the launch, according to Moj. Yet, as of November 24, 2023, Team Moj says that Dolby Vision is ‘in the experiment phase.’ Yesterday was nothing if not strange. To begin with, in the morning, all... Continue Reading →
AV1, Film Grain Synthesis, AOM Patent License 1.0 & Dolby
Shout out to our facebook member Tyler Darlington, who asked, “What is the relationship between Dolby Vision encoding and AV1?”, thanks to which, through a bit of searching, we learned that the European Patent Office revoked all claims to a patent held by Dolby that was deemed essential to AV1 - in particular, patent EP’097,... Continue Reading →
HDR Consistency Across Streaming Platforms, Web Browsers, AMOLED, QD-OLED & MiniLED
While not identical in every respect, the presentation of our HDR videos across various video sharing platforms like Vimeo, YouTube and Moj (a bit of an outlier!), QuickTime player, as well as on different devices, like our iPhone, laptop and TV is remarkably consistent - far more so than our experience with SDR video ever... Continue Reading →
Senior Colorist: The Worst Practice In The Industry
https://youtu.be/uGEFmZeVcMk?si=AXhomwBBVYgdL3Yc Lots of great stuff in here, including. their opinions of Dolby Vision derived SDR vs. a manual SDR grade and what it's like to see their work at home on an LG or plasma TV or on a smartphone. “Some of the worst practices I've seen in this industry have been people dumbing down... Continue Reading →
India’s Largest Short Video Platform Teams Up With Dolby Labs
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 →
It’ll Run You $5,500 To Calibrate The FSI XMP550
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
Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 Update
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 →
Filmbox: More “HDR-ish” Images In Future Update?
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 are no longer able to recommend the plugin for HDR. When we mentioned this peculiar behavior over at the liftgammagain colorist forum, Greg Cotten, the developer of... Continue Reading →
Dolby Vision Technical Updates Webinar – Fall 2023
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 →
Unhinged YouTuber: HDR Is A Scam
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 →
Gerald Undone Curve vs. Reducing ISO In Post
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 →
Apple ProRes 4444 Disappears From Blackmagic Camera App
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.
Were you aware that film grain synthesis is mandatory in the AV1 codec?
"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 Daejeon Chronicles 