There’ve been countless videos and articles explaining what high dynamic range is, with nearly all focusing on the technical aspects: capture requirements (e.g. frame rates, resolution, bit depth, color gamut, dynamic range and so forth), followed by reviews of consumer televisions (measurements of screen uniformity, peak brightness, color accuracy, etc.) and more recently, tests of… Read More
HDR Reference White
In my blog post detailing the color correction workflow for HDR10, a reader asked where reference white and 18% gray should fall on the waveform monitor, and I incorrectly answered 100 nits for reference white and in the 40s for 18% gray. While typical white levels presently used in PQ production range anywhere from 145 –… Read More
iPhone 12 Pro as a Consumer Reference Display (cont’d)
A few years back, when a younger, more handsome Vincent Theo of HDTVTest declared in his review of the Sony BVM-X300 reference monitor, “When I say that something is reference, it means that you know this accurately reflects the director’s and producer’s intention because this is in fact the monitor that is used in post-production… Read More
HDR Grading Tips
My longest HDR video to date, it took Compressor a ridiculous 4-1/2 hours to create the HEVC 10-bit file and an additional 24 hours for YouTube to finish processing the HD version! I’ve received many requests to do an HDR grading tutorial on YouTube, but a screen recording with QuickTime would be in SDR with… Read More
Sony a7s III HDR-10 Color Accuracy
For whatever reason, whether shooting S-Log3 internally or ProRes RAW via the Ninja V, Rec. 2020 PQ colors are far less accurate than Rec. 709. In the image below, we can see that the color chips of the X-Rite ColorChecker Passport Video line up almost perfectly on the vectorscope in Final Cut Pro in rec.… Read More
Get Amazing Color From Your a7s III!
Color Correction Workflow in FCP: Get Spectacular HDR10 Colors From Your Sony a7s III!
In the comments section of my YouTube channel, I’ve gotten numerous requests for an HDR color correction workflow. The problem with trying to do a tutorial on YouTube is that QuickTime screen recorder only captures in SDR, resulting in a dark image and wacky colors, so for now, screen captures are the way to go.… Read More
My Most Successful HDR Video Yet
This is perhaps the first of my videos that really begins to use light in a way that takes advantage of HDR rather than being a video that just happens to be mastered in HDR. Not that there aren’t numerous benefits to uploading even videos with limited dynamic range as HDR, including greater perceived sharpness,… Read More
Sony FE 55mm ZA Sample Footage Coming Soon!
One of my favorite HDR shoots yet!
At Last! LG 32EP950 OLED Monitor
At the moment, with just two manufacturers currently occupying the consumer HDR monitor space – Asus, with their ProArt series and Apple’s Pro Display XDR – LG looks poised to leapfrog them both with their newly announced 32” OLED display. Both the Pro Display XDR and ProArt series use mini LED technology, which suffers from… Read More
