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According to Vincent Teoh of HDTVTest fame, LG has changed the service menu interface on its 2023 OLED TVs, including the C3 and G3, and not for the better. Consequently, it is no longer possible to disable the TPC and GSR auto-dimming algorithms. TPC gradually dims down the picture on static scenes and scenes where... Continue Reading →
The Liquid Retina XDR miniLED display of the MacBook Pro (2021) has greater brightness and something like double the color volume of the LG CX, making it possible to see details in highlights and color differences that are indiscernible on the OLED display. On the other hand, the larger size of the TV makes it... Continue Reading →
Can't say how much we appreciate the HDR Palette and customizable zones in DaVinci Resolve. In the screenshot, we targeted the tiny bit of light outdoors. You've still got to watch the waveform monitor when making adjustments though, since even when it looks like an area has been isolated in the viewer, the actual coverage... Continue Reading →
While testing out the new LG C3, Vincent Teoh discovered that enabling 4:4:4 pass-through has been simplified with the latest lineup of LG OLEDs. "Delving into the user menu, I saw a number of changes from what's found on last year's LG C2. One, if you go into the general submenu, scroll down and click... Continue Reading →
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Colorist Asa Shoul, on more than one occasion, including during an interview with Variety, counsels cinematographers, “When discussing the dos and don’ts of HDR, I would advise not placing actors in front of windows as the extra brightness that can be seen in the sky might make the actor appear less visible.” Which is among... Continue Reading →
The free tutorials over at Jonas Westling’s LearnHDRvideo are a great resource for anyone just starting out.
Pupillometry of HDR Video Viewing. Scott Daly, Evan Gittermana, and Grant Mulliken. Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA Apple, Cupertino, CA, USA An excellent study by researchers from Apple and Dolby Laboratories investigates a common assumption that increased pupil variability causes discomfort while consuming HDR content. https://youtu.be/zl31JrOWiEg SDR version of the short film ‘Telescope’... Continue Reading →
“Unfortunately, for HDR10, there is no reference implementation, like everyone does its own kind of HDR10, so some TVs do clipping, some TVs do their own kind of tone mapping, and in fact, if you mess up with the static metadata, like MaxFALL and MaxCLL, nothing happens in the picture, so trust me, you can... Continue Reading →
Steven Robertson, a software engineer at Google, offers up an irreverent, unique and often funny perspective on HDR, with an emphasis on UGC rather than multi-million dollar productions. Just one example: "We suspect that most of our audience who's going to be trying to grade HDR for the first time is going to be on... Continue Reading →
The following excerpts are from Technical Specification for the Delivery of Content Sky UK, the UK's largest pay-TV broadcaster. Primary Image-Acquisition To ensure viewers observe a noticeable improvement in resolution between the different definition tiers (e.g., HD and UHD) as well as SDR and HDR, the minimum camera requirements in Table 1 must be met... Continue Reading →
“We’re no longer exposing for middle gray and letting the rest “roll off.” […] Through all of these techniques, it’s important to recognize that our old friend and exposure aid, middle (18%) gray, will be of limited usefulness, as middle gray will shift with the audience’s adaptation to brightness changes. It may be possible for... Continue Reading →
A number of websites have published the findings of Dolby's study of luminance preferences for the small screen, yet they all but ignore the fact that Dolby also conducted a similar study with a large screen. Many assume that the larger screen in a movie theater only needs a fraction of the luminance of a... Continue Reading →
At the very end of his article on why S-Log3 no longer needs to be exposed to the right with Sony’s current generation of sensors, Alister Chapman makes a great point: “And one last thing: I don’t like the use of the term “over exposing” to describe shooting a bit brighter to help eliminate noise.... Continue Reading →
We really enjoyed the first season of Ganglands on Netflix, but nothing prepared us for the striking visuals of season 2. Not only the daring camera work and lighting that often immersed characters in inky black shadow, but the bold grading as well. So we just had to reach out to Charles Fréville, a highly... Continue Reading →
The video of Ha at the restaurant shot with the Komdo on the DJI RS3 Pro looked a bit shaky, so we might have a go at stabilizing the footage with Gyroflow and share the results. Since the trial version of Assimilate Player Pro Studio has unlocked CinemaDNG, we may test it out with some... Continue Reading →
Assimilate Player Pro Studio ProRes RAW to CinemaDNG is available for testing as of now. The app has made Nikolaj Pognerebko's overpriced RAW Convertor with limited functionality completely irrelevant.
At a BSC panel on HDR back in 2016, a speaker loses his mind over what will become of all of his beloved muddy DVDs and Blu-rays once they are remastered in high dynamic range, condescendingly referring to professional colorists as 'kids'. ARRI colorist Florian 'Utsi' Martin, sitting beside him, looks very uncomfortable.
There are 30-minuteYouTube tutorials on de-squeezing and aspect ratios but it looks like it’s done automatically in Resolve. It automatically chose 1.8 pixel aspect ratio upon import! There's a link to the original footage in the video description for those who dislike YouTube compression as much as we do. https://youtu.be/LtgHhejy8Hw
There's a link to the original movie in the description for those who dislike YouTube compression as much as we do. The clip was minimally graded (reduced exposure, removed green tint) in ACES, no noise reduction in post. https://youtu.be/2oO4wRRevkk
The Daejeon Chronicles 