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DP Daria D'Antonio demonstrates an understanding of HDR in her sumptuous work on Sorrentino's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film The Hand of God, now showing on Netflix. Unfortunately, the brightly lit exterior scenes lit up our entire room, reflecting back onto the screen and ruining the experience - making us wish we could paint the walls black!
If you leave the house, walk around and point your camera anywhere, it's all but impossible not to encounter luminance values measuring in the hundreds or even thousands of nits. But turn on the TV and watch a Dolby Vision program on Netflix and 99% of the time, it seems like there aren't any luminance... Continue Reading →
“Although there is no official standard regarding the dynamic range definition of HDR, it is generally recognized that a lower threshold for HDR is 13 stops or 8000:1, advancing via 14 stops or 16,000:1 to the current de facto ‘standard’ of 15 stops or 32,000:1. Most of the latest generation of digital motion picture cameras... Continue Reading →
Several YouTubers have said that in 99% of cases, they saw no advantage to spending the extra money to upgrade from 32GB to 64GB RAM for the 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro. Our findings may surprise you. We'll begin with Final Cut Pro and Apple Compressor. Timeline in Final Cut Pro. Two ProRes 4444 4K... Continue Reading →
This deceptively titled advert featuring Asus spokesperson Darren Mostyn might lead the viewer to expect to witness some dazzling HDR grading in DaVinci Resolve by an experienced colorist, but we see nothing of the sort. Not only that, but they couldn't even be bothered to shoot the ad in HDR. Watching this video reminds us... Continue Reading →
One week ago, not a single shop had any 16" M1 Max MacBook Pros in stock and we were told that it would take anywhere from eight to ten weeks to get one; but by some miracle it arrived in just seven days. Using Migration Assistant, Time Machine and a slow portable hard drive, transferring... Continue Reading →
One year ago, almost to the day, we published a video entitled Why Are HDR Shows So Dark?, which turned out to be one of our most successful rants on YouTube. We've since identified no fewer than a half dozen different contributing factors, including: most shows continue to be lit in an SDR environment using... Continue Reading →
As today's consumer displays can attain brightness levels up to fifteen times higher than legacy SDR screens, the traditional 2D color gamut diagram no longer suffices to characterize the behavior of displays, necessitating a third axis to describe luminance. Nevertheless, although color volume plays a far more important role in color reproduction in HDR than... Continue Reading →
Following the praise lavished on Apple's new MacBook Pro lineup featuring Liquid Retina XDR mini-LED displays, industry watchers are now betting on rivals sitting up, taking notice and following suit, increasingly incorporating either OLED or mini-LED displays in their own notebooks. This can only be a good thing, as the 270m notebook market lags deplorably... Continue Reading →
In a forum thread about the new MacBook Pros, sleazy BMD contributor and colorist Marc Wielage compares Apple's marvelous new Liquid Retina XDR miniLED display to dime-store garbage, saying, without a hint of irony: "I can add to this discussion by saying I got the new MacBook Pro M1 Max about 3 days ago and it's been great... Continue Reading →
We've written extensively in these pages about how to use false color and how it makes nailing exposure idiot proof, but for some reason it never occurred to us to make a video illustrating just how stupid fast it is. So today, we redress that oversight. https://youtu.be/tTZnp4CVLXo
All we’ve got to say is how grateful we are for the handful of intrepid YouTubers working with less than Grade 1B reference monitors, because it seems the only ones who can justify purchasing $30,000 displays are post production houses working on multimillion dollar shows that are lit in an SDR environment and monitored in... Continue Reading →
Saturation While the extended color volume of HDR results in perceptibly more vibrant colors able to retain saturation and brightness without compromise, it pays to be cautious with saturation. Glowing skin and radioactive foliage are indications that saturation is cranked up too high. To assess saturation, use the vectorscope. In order to see the highlight... Continue Reading →
Download 4.2K 23.976 ProRes RAW HQ. https://youtu.be/kcdZGA7LW44
In what could turn out to be seriously exciting news for HDR video creators, Apple is said to be exploring OLED or microLED panels for its MacBook Pros - possibly as soon as 2025! The two-stack tandem structure of the rumored OLED panels would consume less energy, allow ProMotion similar to the iPhone 13 and... Continue Reading →
We’ll let you in on a little secret: being able to record RAW internally is all well and good, aside from the fact that XQD and CFexpress Type B cards cost a king's ransom compared to SSD and the Nikon LCD is all but useless for HDR - making an Atomos recorder a vastly superior... Continue Reading →
A Blackmagic forum member writes: "I use a Mac M1 with HDMI directly connected to LG CX. Using the same settings, 17.3.2 can easily watch HDR. After upgrading to 17.4, the exact same color management settings and other settings were tried, but HDR could not be activated. After downgrading to 17.3.2, without making any changes, it directly shows HDR...... Continue Reading →
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